here, there and everywhere

changing my life with a wave of her hand

so we got Sara Miller McCune vs Mayor Schneider....that's cool..the old rich lady versus the young Santa Barbara mayor..

I once thought Sara would buy the News-Press from Wendy and return it to glory..but instead we got Sara's venture, Mission and State,  a lame attempt to mix non-profits, for-profits and journalism...and I lost faith...Sara was just another clueless old rich bitch with white cotton candy old lady hair and a little dog in her lap all the time...a little lap dog that bears a striking resemblance to its owner....very annoying

now the fuss is over Caltrans and the widening project through Montecito...Mayor Helene suppports a lawsuit that wants to delay it more due to Caltrans many mistakes and Sara Miller McCune wants the project to proceed post haste...Sara even wrote a letter to the social media blasting Helene and telling her what to do....to recuse herself from critical discussions...Helene says "no way Sara..you don't tell me what to do!"

from what I can gather Helene is from New York and you tell New York girls what to do...

ok so the deal is by the time CALTRANS finishes the highway project, Sara will be dead, so maybe that's why she's so anxious...I don't feel there's a need to widen the 101 frm Carp to Santa Barbara....it's only about a ten mile stretch and it's a gorgeous vista...CALTRANS will fuck it up with sound walls and more cement than you can shake a stick at...a sound wall in Summerland? and Montecito..and a six lane highway? so people can get from here to there a little quicker at certain times of the day..usually the morning..

I live by the highway in Carp and don't see the need for all this development.. I don't want a sound wall..I like to see the cars and motorcycles and the trains...and the ocean and the marsh...the traffic pattern is quite clear...traffic flows nicely 98% of the time...it slows down in the mornings around 8 o'clock for about an 30 minutes....it only stops when some drunk crashes....and let's face it..there's simply too many people in California so what do they expect, things are gonna get crowded! look at LA...they got eight lane highways that slow to a crawl everyday!

I heard CALTRANS killed the Ventura Highway vibe with the walls and bike path barriers...too bad, that was a real nice drive...besides it already had a three-laner after La Conchita...leave it to CALTRANS to fuck it up..I'll check it out soon as soon as they stop breathing down my neck...

I've heard that CALTRANs is due to start the ill-fated project in 2018 and finish by 2027..fora ten mile stretch of road..it's absurd...what they should do is leave the highway from Carp thru Montecito a four laner...designate it a scenic route..

and when you're traveling 20 miles an hour at 8:30 am, northbound, over the hill in Summerland, just gaze out over the ocean and Shark's Beach...

and you'll see what I mean