I found a story on KPCC about a video produced by a Boyle Heights punk rocker named Eddie Solis who

I found a story on KPCC about a video produced by a Boyle Heights punk rocker named Eddie Solis who plays in a group called It's Casual. The song called The Red Line discusses disney world ticket highways in Los Angeles compared to transit. You can watch the video here:
Beyond the cruel reality of being stuck in traffic for hours, the song has accurate lyrics that the freeways are not so nice. This is especially true for the more than 1.2 million folks in the Los Angeles region who live in close proximity to major highways. Ample scientific evidence shows that air pollution is higher next to highways compared to further away. This makes sense, right.
To make matters worse, a host of scientific studies link serious medical ailments to highway disney world ticket pollution ranging from premature death to respiratory problems. There was even one study that found elevated risk of autism among children disney world ticket who lived within 300 meters of a freeway during the third trimester and shortly after birth.
Despite these ills associated with highways, our region continues to promote billions of dollars in highway expansion projects. For example, just last night, I had a conversation with somebody from the San Fernando Valley who wondered why there are no rail lines or a more rapid bus connection that effectively connect the Valley disney world ticket to the Westside of Los Angeles. Many people need to travel to and from these places disney world ticket as evidenced by that nightmare of the I-10/I-405 interchange. I like to call that intersection where pull your hair out meets continuously bang your head on a wall. Despite this obvious need, we are sinking disney world ticket more than a billion dollars into widening the I-405, which will likely just get clogged up shortly after these new lanes open. And, we just used space for lanes that could have been used for transit.
The good news is that there is a focus on transit in the region with more resources allocated in the recent transportation plan. In addition, Mayor Villaraigosa has stridently promoted expansion of the transit system. But, poorly conceived roadway projects like the I-710 tunnel continue to have staunch proponents.
I have been called a hater of highway expansion projects because of my vocal opposition to some major projects in the region. I don t think I hate these behemoth projects; I just will not look the other way as billions of dollars get spent on these projects when as Eddie Solis notes the freeways are not so nice. Why should I be nice to them when they are not nice to me, my clients and the millions of people impacted by them?
In a few weeks, it will have been a full year since I moved to Vermont from Pennsylvania. In that latter state, I used to yell in exasperation at passing motorists, some of them neighbors driving to the post office to claim their mail while I walked the same route. Here, my new home is a half-mile from Vermont disney world ticket 2A, a two-lane highway that's filled through the daylight hours by single-family disney world ticket cars, most with only one person inside. I know all about the big box megastores a few miles away. And I shake my head upon reading of Target's plan to build another. Of course, these retailers; campuses all have huge parking lagoons. I just don't know what to do.
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