California Autobahn: Bill proposes to cut emissions by adding fast lanes

Freeway, Los Angeles, 2009 (photo by Myriam Thyes via Wikimedia)In the wake of the debate over California’s complicated, delayed, and over-budget Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project, a bill introduced to the California State Senate last week comes up with a simpler solution: just add more freeway lanes, and get rid of the speed limit entirely in those new lanes. The bill, SB 319, is...