By Peter Schrag
Bee Columnist
sacbee.com
10 October 2007

Even if you ride blindfolded from Reno on westbound Interstate 80, your shocks and backside will tell you when you reach the California line. At the same time, you can now do 65 going eastbound in the FasTrak lanes across the new span of the Benicia Bridge and get a glimpse of what the state's transportation future could be like.

For now, with the exception of a few toll roads in Orange County, the ride on I-80 is the paradigm of California's infrastructure -- roads, bridges, transit networks, water systems -- built for a population and economy less than half our present size and woefully underfunded and undermaintained for the better part of 40 years.

By almost any measure, compared with most of the nation or the modern world, or to what they once were, California's roads are dreadful.

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Posted by dcjaya at October 11, 2007 1:25 AM