Editor,
One viable method of reducing Bay Area traffic congestion is rarely discussed. Another vehicle bridge could be constructed from Highway 238/Interstate 880 in Hayward to Interstate 380 near the airport. It would change the pattern of traffic from the Livermore valley; instead of going north to the Bay Bridge backing up through Oakland or going south to the San Mateo Bridge, traffic could continue west to the Peninsula.
This bridge crossing was planned decades ago but never completed. South San Francisco is now a destination due to biotech development, so housing advocates should realize new development will require construction materials and equipment transported by trucks.
The desire to reduce single occupant vehicle trips has ignored the necessity for freight delivery; diesel trucks idling in traffic generate pollution too.
Recent suggestions to bore another BART tunnel under the Bay are too expensive. BART already has issues with train car replacements being late, used equipment being installed on the new extensions and obsolete technology requiring custom fabrication for maintenance.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has mentioned funding for another bridge. No one is going to move to the Bay Area and begin commuting by car just because a new bridge may be built.
Refusing to add traffic lanes to force commuters onto public transportation is an inadequate strategy because public transportation options are limited. If the state could afford to build the “designer” Bay Bridge that cost billions without adding vehicle capacity, surely California could construct a crossing to reduce delays and the pollution that comes from idling cars and trucks.
Bill Williams
San Mateo
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is the cheapest and probably the most effective answer. The Red Lanes project in the City is an approach along those lines. Let's see how it works out. The concept was pioneered by Jaime Lerner of Brazil some years back in Curitiba Brazil. The idea is to make cheap, fast, clean safe and convenient bus mass transit available at a price that makes you think it foolish to drive your own vehicle. 'Lime bics' and Zip cars can help in getting folks the 'last mile' in their journey. NO new infrastructure needed. No eminent domain, no expensive specialty vehicles required. This solution is by many orders of magnitude preferable to just about any other idea.
Bovines (cows) produce more methane from both ends...
Mainly due to how we feed them...grain and how they digest it
New study has the addition of seaweed to their grain feed...IIRC...reduced their methane production by 99% or more from the initial studies
Seaweed production is a HUGE new (new to Americans) product and market sector. This will benefit the fishery's both in allowing new revenues/jobs/etc to the current situation *AND* rebuild the oceans it self
https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission/
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cows-seaweed-methane-burps-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-climate-change-research-a8368911.html
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/can-seaweed-cut-methane-emissions-dairy-farms/
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