The outer Richmond and outer Sunset are incredibly reactionary, car-brained NIMBYs. Only reason this went through is because it got put to a citywide vote. Left to the Board of Supervisors there’s no way it would have gotten through. I think the Sunset dipshits are already trying to recall their supe for letting it happen.

I’d be interested to know whether the majority of those cost increases came from labor or materials. Or, possibly, just additional graft off the top by the contractors if Pasadena doesn’t use in-house crews for their paving.

But cities like Pasadena have some of the easiest conditions possible for maintaining roads since they never (or only very rarely) get below freezing.

Our people? It’s the Democrats that need to wake up. They lost (and will continue to lose) as long as they propose merely to fiddle on the margins while the promise of a future crumbles.

They’re largely losing because of Trump.