AHHA. Its awesome!
Another traffic NIGHTMARE in Santa Clarita.
Last week with the overturned truck and fire I predicted a weekly traffic nightmare in the Santa Clarita Valley.
You have to thank the local City Council Members who have been in office for life. They have overdeveloped, by approving every new housing track, and have done nothing to fix the roads and freeways.
Only you readers can stop this. Next time there is an election please vote them out. Be smart. They are financed by the developers and car dealers who want more people here. [Weste,McLean,Ender,Ferry,Kellar].

edsam, saying a person left in critical condition is awesome is really shocking. Please write letters to the editor everyday, do what you can to get those who do not have the best interests of the SCV at heart voted out of office. But don't respond to an article about a person transported to a trauma center in critical condition with laughter and exclamation that it's awesome. Their family may read this.

This accident was caused overcrowding and lack of road construction by those in power.
Truck convoys, commuter traffic, traveling high speeds on dangerous overcrowded roads that have not been upgraded to keep up development.
Their lack of concern for all who use the freeways is obvious, just as their priority on developers profits.
People will get into accidents, people will get stuck in nightmare traffic for hours.
If the people in power permitted hazardous building conditions,
buildings would collapse due to their neglect.
People would be hurt and possibly killed.
Should we feel sorry for those hurt, or outrage for those that caused the conditions.
This exact scenario happened recently with BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP valued profits over safety.

PS: the awesome was a pun on awesometown. The ads for Valencia. The ads for the most business friendly city in Los Angeles County. That is the priority!

To momtwice: what you dont see, and what the Signal doesnt tell you is the nightmare traffic. It will take you 3 hours to get from the San Fernando Valley to the Santa CLarita Valley. It usually takes 90 minutes for a 30 mile drive. Traffic is stopped.
Tens of thousands of people cant get home.
I am staying at work in Sherman Oaks until maybe 9 of 10 pm.
I am am very angry I cant go home to see my kids events.

I agree. I grew up here and moved back in 1996. I commute to work in West LA. It used to be, 99% of the time, there was no traffic until I hit Victory Blvd going south and no traffic going north past the 101.

Every year it has gotten progressively worse. Normally, the worst traffic is going home, from the 118 until after the 14 split. It can take 45 minutes to go a couple miles.

We are spending so much money and creating an even bigger nightmare to build stupid flyover carpool lanes. Statistics indicate that 5% of people are carpooling. So much for the 95% of us that use the freeway. They are adding an extra lane for trucks too. Wow. So when they are finally done, the freeway will meet the needs of traffic using 1999 levels. They need to build a freeway that will meet the needs of the growing valley until 2025.

Forget about the 28,000 homes in the soon to be Newhall Ranch development. There are rough plans to add up to 50,000 more homes up the 5, all the way to the Kern County line. Won't that be awesome.

My commute to work is 25 minutes with no traffic. Factor in traffic and it is 1 hour, 45 minutes each way. That is over 13 hours of extra time I waste EACH WEEK sitting in traffic.

It is only going to get worse. I only disagree about Kellar. He is the only one on the council not in the pockets of the developers.

I have driven this drive for 20 years. It has become increasingly dangerous in the last few years and has hit critical mass. The trucks travel in the two right lanes with very little room in between and it makes it almost impossible to find an opening in between them to get off at Valencia or Magic Mountain and then they all merge into the right before the scales and then they come out of there so unorganized going to the 5 and the 126 that if you have to get off at Newhall Ranch Road, you are, once again, risking your life. I even got pulled over once because I couldn't find an opening in between the trucks to get over to get off of the freeway so I sped up to find an opening and the officer asked me if I saw him, I said, "Yes, but there was no where to get over without making the trucks slamming on their brakes and causing a pile up". He did let me go.