“I don’t care what they take to get to work, as long as it isn’t their own car. They can carpool or ride a bike or anything else, as long as it isn’t one person in a car.”
This was in regard to a directive she sent to her staff of 20 employees to begin a one-day-a-week alternative to driving alone in their personal car.
In a separate declaration, Bart Reed, Executive Director of The Transit Coalition for the Southern California area, avowed:
The facts indicate that we need to ban private cars.
The fact is, Mr. Reed’s so-called facts are nothing but desperate fabrication to further his notorious anti-car mission.
5 Vs. 95
Never mind that fewer than 5 percent of Los Angeles commuters use public transportation to commute,
Mr. Reed wants to ban 95 percent of commuters from driving their own personal cars. He wants to force us all into burdensome mass transit.
Make no mistake. Mr. Reed’s manipulated facts have dangerous influence on our politicians and serious impact on our personal freedoms.
According to his self-serving hype, Bart meets with federal, state and local elected officials and their staffs on a regular basis. He attends important transit functions in Washington D.C., Sacramento and Southern California. Bart can be found at almost all board meetings, public forums and other meetings that are of a critical issue for the betterment of Los Angeles’ region.
If you believe that the betterment of Los Angeles’ region is to ban you from driving your own personal car, then you’d better be prepared to pay the serious consequences that Mr. Reed and his ilk have in store for you.
Otherwise, it’s time to start speaking out now to demand that this primitive, anti-car doctrine be stopped immediately before it’s too late. It’s apparent that this dangerous mission has already convinced the Chairperson of L.A’.s City Council Transportation Committee to put an anti-car agenda in motion.
Expressway to the Future
Contrary to Mr. Reed’s facts to ban private cars, the real fact is that ground-level mass transportation needs to be replaced with elevated transit so that our streets are clear and free from lumbering buses and trolley cars.
Then, the 95 percent of L.A.’s independent and free-spirited commuters who drive a car will no longer be stuck in this forced gridlock. And those who choose to use public transportation will have an ultra-modern monorail system that will move quickly, quietly and efficiently above the traffic.
It should come as no surprise that Mr. Reed is also vehemently opposed to monorails as a solution that would reduce street-level gridlock while greatly improving the quality of public transportation.
His obstinacy notwithstanding, it’s time to make bold new choices, and we can begin by supporting the forward-thinking Wilshire Monorail Expressway to the Future, to replace Mayor Villaigarosa’s proposed subway to the sea, which will cost billions more and take decades longer to build than a monorail system.
There Isnt Enough Time
Simply put, we cannot afford to waste the extra time or money to build a subway. Nor do we need any more street-level buses and trolley cars to make the jobs of politicians easier and our own lives more miserable. Instead, we need elevated monorails, which create more efficient and free flowing car traffic to make our individual lives more independent and secure.
Simply put, our politicians need to start serving the best interests of the majority of commuters, which are automobile drivers, instead of trying to force us into a depressing, one-size-fits-all method of socialized transportation.
Preserving the American Dream
Democracy’s mission is to liberate the individuals and set the people free.
Socialism’s objective is to conquer the masses and keep the people under control. Consequently, we must stop this subtle, yet powerful force that wants to use us as their collective pawns for advancing their socialized transportation scheme at the catastrophic expense of losing our individual right to freedom and independence.
Remember, we are not a mass of people to be collectively dictated around by the unilateral whims of anti-car politicians and bureaucrats.
It Is up to Each Person
To the contrary, we are independent individuals with freedom of choice to determine our own independent method of mobility.
America is a free republic that insures individual sovereignty for our citizenry with the right to make our own choices. Without choices, there is no freedom.
Driving alone in the car of our own preference is a personal decision that plays a major role in our Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Preventing Another Disaster
The Hurricane Katrina disaster that struck New Orleans was a major wake-up call for everyone.
As we all witnessed, only those who had cars were able to safely flee. Those who trusted and depended on local government transportation were left behind. Many died tragically and unnecessarily.
The New Orleans tragedy validated that the automobile provides liberated mobility, not only in an individual’s everyday travels, but to safely survive in case of an extreme emergency.
America was built upon self-sufficiency.
We should be encouraging all of our citizenry to be independent for their individual good and never allow them to become dependent upon a dictatorial government that wants to control our freedom of mobility.
Individual Reliability
The New Orleans tragedy taught us the importance of owning a personal car so that we can all experience freedom of mobility for our personal good and individual safety.
While we’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons from Hurricane Katrina, here’s one we must never forget:
When you teach persons to ride the bus, you teach them to become dependent upon government.
When you teach a person to drive his or her own car, you teach him or her to be an independent individual.