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1884 - McCoy & Everette Pyle discover important Tataviam Indian artifacts in Bowers Cave (Val Verde) [story]
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1884 - McCoy & Everette Pyle discover important Tataviam Indian artifacts in Bowers Cave (Val Verde) [story]
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College of the Canyons captured a 13th straight Western State Conference Championship on Monday, April 29 at Knollwood Country Club, after a 36-hole tourney that saw all six players finish in the top-10 of the field's individual standings and send the Cougars to another 3C2A Southern California Regional Championship event.
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1927: First major competition, second annual rodeo, at new Baker Ranch arena (later Saugus Speedway). Overflow crowd more than fills 18,000-seat arena. Entire SCV population was ~3,000 [story]
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A relic of Saint Jude has left Italy for the first time on an extended tour of the United States. Treasures of the Church, an evangelization ministry of the Catholic church, will present the Tour of the Relic of St. Jude the Apostle. The relic of St. Jude will be hosted Monday, May 6 at Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church.
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Given the ongoing uncertain situation in the Red Sea and surrounding area and following extensive consultation with global security experts and government authorities, Princess Cruises, which is headquartered in Valencia, is revising the itineraries for its two 2025 World Cruises, which will no longer visit the Middle East or Asia, and now instead, will offer new port stops in Africa and Europe.
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1973 - Watergate figure H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, a former CalArts board member, resigns from Nixon White House [link]
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Fascinating. Our roads and highways are fast disintegrating. The State’s highway funds have been raided in the past (by our leaders) and the rate of disintegration has increased. Something must be done!
So our Legislature and Governor have decided that since they don’t want to risk annoying the campaign-funding interest groups and corporations to increase the fuel tax for light vehicles, they’ll just slide around and come up with a new, cool method of extracting funding from drivers. Queue up the Committees! Get those Silicon Valley boys to put their over-sized brains and wallets to work! Let’s charge ’em by the reported miles driven!
Except this Road User Charge Pilot thing has already been done by Oregon. They’ve done their initial pilot program, and just to make sure they’re doing another 5,000 driver expanded pilot program that started running in June of 2015.
And guess what? California has already joined the Western States Road Charge Consortium, established by Oregon and Washington state. I’ll be we get to use their data for free.
If we want to.
Don’t believe me? Go to : https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/RUFP/docs/RUCPP%20Final%20Report%20-%20May%202014.pdf
And don’t start up the “California is unique” BS. Yeah it’s special but it can’t be that much more dysfunctional than Oregon can, it?
No I think your “robust” approach is more about PR/Marketing to the public and getting all of the pigs access to the trough. Oregon’s version contracts with private “account managers” AKA Toll Road companies that have experience at billing drivers directly for their use of the pay-as-you-go lanes. And there are the digital access providers who make the dongles hooked up to the vehicle’s computer to report mileage for that billing.
And then there’s the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that will pass through their hands on it’s way to charging us for each mile driven. Lots of value in that info.
It doesn’t matter how much make-up and lipstick you apply, it’s still a pig. Ask Kermit.
Aren’t there more cars on the road everyday? That’s what I have been told.
How many gallons of petrol were sold in Cal. 10 years ago versus today?
Hi C.R.,
You will be surprised by the answer to your second question.
The state Board of Equalization keeps track of gasoline sales. In 2006, 15,825,386,719 gallons of gasoline were sold.
In 2014, 14,702,632,422 were sold, a decrease of 7 percent.
Figures for 2015 are not complete yet.
What’s important in the determination of gasoline sales in addition to the number of vehicles on the road is the mileage of the vehicles and the miles they are driven. The former has been increasing due to mandated fuel efficiency improvements, and demographic changes are contributing to a decrease in miles driven (blame it on the millennials).
Look for yourself:
http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/reports/mvf_10_year_report.pdf
Great piece! I didn’t know that Jim Madaffer, a former San Diego city councilman, is chairman of the Road Charge Technical Advisory Committee and a member of the California Transportation Commission. I strongly agree with everything he writes.
The release of the details of the pilot are timely considering that the California Transportation Commission has just slashed transportation funding by about $750 million due to reduced gas tax revenue. Worse yet, the gas tax is set to decrease, again, this year.
http://www.planetizen.com/node/83458/transportation-funding-crisis-looming-california-after-revenues-fall