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Q. Do if there are any plans to mitigate the visitors congestion and backup on the 5 Freeway going south from San Clemente via Oceanside? Are there any companies that might work towards widening the freeway, or a minimum of including a carpool lane? In an emergency, the freeway turns into a parking zone with no further exit options. Please advise.
– Tom Gudauskas, San Clemente
A. Caltrans officers are properly conscious of the congestion on the 5 throughout Camp Pendleton, particularly on weekends.
There is a blueprint of kinds by San Diego County transportation officers calling for managed lanes on the 5 over the U.S. Marines’ base. Maybe between the north and south lanes.
“I believe that the median has room for one lane in every route,” mentioned Steve Welborn, a Caltrans spokesman.
Should help and funding be locked up in some unspecified time in the future, these lanes might be for carpoolers, simply buses, a tollway, or maybe for – with improved know-how – automated autos with software program permitting them to drive extraordinarily shut collectively.
However, any added lanes are very probably years, if not a long time, off.
South of Camp Pendleton on the 5, although, some carpool lanes have been added and extra are deliberate that might assist ease congestion farther north.
Yes, alongside that scenic stretch throughout Pendleton subsequent to the mighty Pacific Ocean, there are few choices to skirt blocked visitors. But the Marines at occasions assist.
“There have been situations the place a visitors collision blocks all lanes of visitors and since there aren’t any exits, Camp Pendleton opens its roadways to alleviate congestion,” Welborn mentioned.
Q. A variety of us bizarre of us share the frustration of a current Honk reader who questioned why so many Tesla house owners get away with out entrance license plates. But how do they get off of the vendor’s lot with out a front-plate bracket and a printed short-term license on the entrance and the again? I believed these have been Department of Motor Vehicle mandates imposed on a new-car vendor. Am I incorrect?
– Wally Roberts, San Clemente
A. Honk has heard about sellers tossing license plates into the trunk, in all probability with snap-on plate holders, or having the brand new automobile proprietor signal some sheet saying she or he is aware of the legislation requires the plates even when the automobile is leaving the lot brief one or each of them.
The backside line is when the automobile hits the streets, it’s the automobile proprietor’s duty.
“When you hit the general public roadways, it’s a must to have (everlasting) license plates or short-term plates – that’s what the legislation says,” mentioned Duane Graham, an officer and spokesman for the California Highway Patrol out of the Westminster station home.
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