Your site's argument that highway widening fails because commute times *on the highway* remain the same, is obviously flawed.

Of course if the highway is already *over* capacity, it runs no faster than if it is *at* capacity. It will however serve many more people.

And commute times WILL decrease - for those who can now use the highway thanks to the increase in capacity, instead of slugging it along on the bus or trying to drive Soquel.

You ever try to get around town on the bus? A 15 minute trip becomes 45 minutes or more. How about that commute time?

Your argument cites the influx of these other commuters as the cause of failure, when in fact it is proof of success.

To say nothing of the increased SAFETY for pedestrians and *bicyclists* on those side roads. Have you ever seen Soquel during rush hour, with all the people trying to avoid the highway?

Get those drivers on 1 where they belong, *where they would rather be*, and where we would rather they be!

How many more bicyclists must be run down on Soquel because you want to punish drivers as an ecological Great Satan, and because you care more about spotted owls and scrub brush than other people?