God save us from the urban planners

I was driving up Santa Fe Drive in Encinitas or Cardiff the other day and I couldn't believe what they were doing.

Construction crews were narrowing the street, increasing the bike lanes and landscaping or something or other. 

Basically making a mess of things.

Ron and Lena were with me in the car and I asked what the hell this was about?

Much like they did with the recent destruction on Coast Highway in Leucadia, I was told that the social engineers and urban planners have decided that people won't be driving cars so much in the future and they are getting us ready for that.

Maybe that is what they wish will happen but I have news for you, it will never happen, as hard as they hope. 

Southern Californians won't ever give up their cars, suitable mass transit will never be built. All they are doing is making things worse.

Just watch what happens when they try to put tunnels under rich people's homes in Del Mar. 

End of story.

All it is going to do is make the current traffic bottlenecks more unbearable. Why couldn't they do something like they did on Leucadia Blvd. going east? That was a first class job that didn't affect traffic flow.

Their misguided hopes for the future are running smack square into reality and the result is not looking pretty.