Day: May 31, 2017

Much as I tell myself that I won’t wait more than two months between updates, life gets away from me, my weekends get booked with theatre, and (boom) five months have passed. So it goes, I guess. Let’s start with the important numbers first: 40,818 songs on the iPod, up from 39,653 since Decmeber, with 582 songs on the “5 or Less” list (including two cast albums about Los Angeles, including one about Freeway Dreams), and about 6636 on the “10 or Less” list.

So far, in 2017, we’ve seen the passage of a gas tax proposal to fund roads (if it survives, hopefully), the inauguration of Donald Trump’s administration (which hopefully won’t survive), a proposal for a gazillion bajillion dollars — trust me, it’s yuge — in infrastructure funding in the administration’s spending proposal (which won’t survive in its present form, and would include more toll roads), and the seeming death of Route 1 due to actual weather, and Route 710 due to political weather — and when and whether either will return as a zombie is unknown. Depends on the brains available.

But this site does not work on political opinion. We work on facts: news reports, reports from the fields, legislative actions, transportation commission actions. But before I go into that, a question for those reading this on my website. At times I’ve had the urge to redo the website into something responsive, which would likely take a lot of time. I’ve also worried about the fact that I don’t serve everything via https://. But this is primarily an information site, that doesn’t handle any personal or sensitive data. Going responsive would require Javascript to resize and rearrange pages for phones, as opposed to full width web pages as in the current design. There’s no content management system to do this for me (although the blog is WordPress). My tools still generate hand-coded HTML, at some generation before HTML4 (pretty-much before CSS). I’m inclined not to change things if they work, but if you think I need to do the effort, please drop me a note.

Updates were made to the following highways, based on my reading of the papers (which are posted to the roadgeeking category at the “Observations Along The Road” and to the California Highways Facebook group) as well as any backed up email changes. I also reviewed the the AAroads forum. This resulted in changes on the following routes, with credit as indicated [my research⁽¹⁾, contributions of information or leads (via direct mail) from Max Rockatansky⁽²⁾: Route 1⁽¹⁾, Route 4⁽¹⁾, I-5⁽¹⁾, I-8⁽¹⁾, Route 9⁽¹⁾, I-10⁽¹⁾, Route 12⁽¹⁾, Route 29⁽¹⁾, Route 35⁽¹⁾, Route 37⁽¹⁾, Route 39⁽¹⁾, Route 46⁽¹⁾, US 50⁽¹⁾, Route 55⁽¹⁾, Route 58⁽¹⁾, Route 65⁽¹⁾, Former US 66⁽¹⁾, Route 67⁽¹⁾, Route 74⁽¹⁾, Route 75⁽¹⁾, Route 76⁽¹⁾, Route 79⁽¹⁾, I-80⁽¹⁾, Route 84⁽¹⁾, Route 91⁽¹⁾, Route 94⁽¹⁾, Route 99⁽¹⁾, US 101⁽¹⁾, I-110⁽¹⁾, Route 121⁽¹⁾, Route 125⁽¹⁾, Route 142⁽¹⁾, Route 174⁽¹⁾, Route 190⁽¹⁾, I-210⁽¹⁾, Route 273⁽¹⁾, I-405⁽¹⁾, I-580⁽¹⁾, Route 710⁽¹⁾, I-805⁽¹⁾, I-980⁽¹⁾, County Route J1⁽²⁾. Note: I was out of it, and didn’t pick up that much from AAroad (so folks there should just email me desired changes), and no one really emailed me anything during this change period.

Gribblenation.com supposedly closed as of the end of 2016, and Gribblenation.net actually closed as of January 2017. However, gribblenation.com still seems to be up. Per the discussion over on AAroads, a number of pieces will be moving to new sites as of January 2017. Those so identified have been updated. If you were at gibblenation.com or .net and have a new site, please mail me information on the corrected link. Otherwise, your entry has been deleted. As always, if you have a regional road page, please send me the link. If you had a page, please make sure I have the correct link.

Reviewed the Pending Legislation page, based on the new California Legislature site. As usual, I recommend to every Californian that they visit the legislative website regularly and see what their legis-critters are doing. Right now, we’re at the point everything for this legislative session has been sent to the Governor for signature. I noted the passage/veto of the following bills and resolutions (for some of these, I’ve highlighted key phrases in red):

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