Convergence

"Down Below" in the high dessert from our ski cabin there has been a decade of residential construction and finally the roads are being upgraded to handle the burgeoning commute population. In this article we discover the downside of bad planning, transportation dysfunction and municipal greed. Excerpt:

In the five years leading up to the start of construction last summer, there were nearly 3,000 traffic collisions and 68 deaths, according to the California Highway Patrol. The highway had become so dangerous it had been dubbed "Blood Alley."
A $44 million widening project was supposed to alleviate the danger, not create a new class of victims.
The first sign things were going to turn ugly was after the California Department of Transportation allowed drivers to use the highway only during rush hour last summer, with traffic flowing in one direction at a time and creeping along behind escort vehicles.

Any guesses what the reaction was? Read the article.