Transit Center

Re “Transit Control Center Planned to Help Ease Freeway Congestion,” April 3: The propposed transportation management center is a bad idea. So long as Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol are content “managing” traffic congestion, nothing will be done to solve the problem. All the new center will do is institutionalize traffic congestion. In addition, the consolidation of government services, as proposed, inevitably results in inefficiency and less responsive service.

The efforts of state agencies should be redirected to solving the problem of traffic congestion--by closing gaps in the freeway system and surface street alternatives, by redesign and re-striping of existing freeways, and by the addition of auxiliary lanes, particularly within existing rights of way.

THOMAS KEISER

Arcadia