Some people have adopted the "ostrich syndrome" where they bury their heads in the sand, and say it will never happen. We've heard that this project has been long talked about but nothing has ever become of it. Tell that to the people in Carmel Valley and where the I-5 - I-805 merge takes place. They talked about that for years and it's a mess. Traffic backs up just as it always did, just a bit further up the road. Move the mess a bit at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars perhaps. Put in truck bypass lanes that never materialize as such?
Some people think that cancer will never happen to them either. But it can and does. They can see the signs way before it becomes self-evident and presents significant problems, but it's ignored. And, in the case of the freeway expansion, concerned residents believe, like a metastasizing mass of concrete, it will come our way and cannot be ignored; now is the time to take steps to minimize the impact before it's too late to do anything at all. The time allocated for public input is running out, and once the die is cast, only lawsuit after lawsuit will slow this down. And is that where we want to be? Emptying our savings accounts and retirement funds to fight an ongoing battle for endless years, while the State uses our own tax money against us? Those who have their heads in the sand have an easy choice. They can say "I didn't think it would ever happen", or "Maybe I should have reacted more quickly and positively before it was too late" or maybe they'll just sell out to avoid being the butt of "I told you so" quips?
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