Letters to the editor

The Salinas Californian
Posted on May 22, 2007

No on Measure A

Janet Brennan's defense of her "impartial analysis" sidetracks attention from my point: Measure A's campaign claims are preposterous.

The League of Women Voters' analysis misleads by quoting questionable numbers out of context. Monterey County will hardly become Los Angeles under GPU4. Los Angeles County is barely three-quarters the size of Monterey County and holds over 3.3 million households
- 3.18 million more than the 140,000 in Monterey County.


At GPU4's building rate of 21,500 households every 25 years, Monterey will reach L.A.'s household density in about 4,000 years!

Additional daily household trips attributed to GPU4 will not create gridlock unless LandWatch continues to block infrastructure improvements as it is doing on Highway 68. Even if you accept the League's trip generation increases as being correct for the period 2000 to 2032, GPU4's additional increase in Monterey County's 1.1 million daily trips (102,000 to 141,100 daily trips per the League) is 9 to 13 percent.

LandWatch's (of which Brennan is a board member) opposition to improvements on Highway 68, the county's most congested route, while claiming it is improving the county's traffic Level of Service, speaks for itself.

Alan Kemp
Aromas