hour nightmare
Traffic engineering/traffic management on Pacific Coast Highway does not involve rocket science, brain surgery or complex mathematical formulas. I have been traveling twice a day on PCH for over 26 years at least five times a week. During the last five years, the traffic on PCH during rush hour between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. and between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. has become unbearable.
The traffic nightmare begins at the McClure Tunnel and continues through Topanga Canyon. To me, the solution is simple. The southbound traffic during the rush hour period should have at least three lanes, and the northbound traffic during the night rush hour should have a least three lanes.
I have experienced reverse land traffic in the City of Los Angeles, on the Golden Gate Bridge, and throughout other crowded areas of the state. Why can’t we have the same type of traffic control on Pacific Coast Highway during the morning and evening rush hour periods? Is that asking too much of Caltrans?
Malibu is such a beautiful place to live, but it is such a difficult place to enter or exit during the rush hour time periods. We have had one study after another by Cal Trans, but we have never had any significant changes to alleviate the traffic jams during rush hours.
Isn’t it time to give the residents of Malibu a break?
J. Patrick Maginnis