TTD maps out transportation plan for basin
The Tahoe Transportation District board of directors approved an eight-year vision to complete a transportation system connecting communities around the lake as well as with Truckee.
Goals include completing the Fanny Bridge project in Tahoe City, the loop road on the South Shore and a ferry that would take people between the south and north shores. The only one of these projects that is approved and has funding is Fanny Bridge, which calls for the realignment of Highway 89.
“Providing dependable, safe, affordable, environmentally friendly and easy to use transportation that connects communities throughout the basin is essential to the economic health of the Lake Tahoe region,” said Carl Hasty, TTD district manager, said in a statement.
The district is also on course to take over BlueGo, the South Shore bus system, starting Nov. 1.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Instead of all this fluff why not free bus service. The ferry is a loser and the new roads will create more traffic.
The Loop Road is a no brainer. Get it done.
Mr. Hasty, Where’s the $.
Mr Hasty should be thoroughly vetted before he gets any money….sick and tired of all these people gifted with government jobs that are either thieves and or incompetent.
This county and city should be literally rolling in dough…the green $DOLLAR$ kind and ‘they’ keep telling us we’re broke…more money!~ more taxes! BS thieves all.
The worst part of it is…they’re proud of it..
Crazy Carl just wont stop. How come with 30% less year round residents and 40% less tourists the air quality is worse??
I can name 26 gas stations between Cave Rock and Meyers that have closed. They were replaced by 2 new stations.
The modern cars run on unleaded gas have catalytic converters, fuel injection and get twice the millage.
The STPUD director finally admitted their is NO WATER SHORTAGE at Tahoe. Why don’t you start telling the truth???
The main reason the traffic is bad is because of building sidewalks to nowhere.
We have reached a saturation point in South Shore. Our infrastructure was and is not designed to sustain this amount of people on a daily basis. With over 1700 vacation homes that are being filled most of the year and average 8 guests per home we have essentially more than halved our sustainable population. Our town cannot handle what we have right now and we want to build more to bring in more. We should fix what we have. Our town has surpassed middle age and is bordering on old age dementia. Everything has limitations and we have reached ours especially with the total number of “Agency’s” we have to save us and decide our future. Perhaps it’s time to start an agency to save us from the agency’s.
There appears to be an overload, so to speak, of conflict of interests here.
All of these ‘attorneys’ and consultants have served or are serving on TRPA etc….ALL of them?
UNBELIEVABLE
Sunriser2, The real reason for the basin’s poor air quality and particulate pollution is that we reside East of the worst air in the country- The Central Valley. No one will ever talk about this fact as it cannot be mitigated by any agency or district. Carl plans, Carl gets paid. Where’s the problem again?
YES ! just say carrying capacity !!!! When will the Basin burst at the seams? Also with the growth of nearby Truckee, Reno, The Villages at Squaw and Northstar many more people will trek to the basin and will not use public transportation as it will never be in step with lead times for residents to get to and from work or tourists that want to start in Tahoe City and possibly visit South Shore during their visit. And of course, is there ever enough Fed $$$$ to accomplish a project in its entirety? The Kings Beach Core Improvement project was truncated and still not fully funded.
Isee,
The basin doesn’t have poor air quality. If it did we wouldn’t be exempt from smog checks to register our cars.
Be careful Sunriser2 what you ask for. The air is not as clear as it used to be and that exemption could at some point go away!
Build it and they will come, and destroy. The whole point to all of these agencies was to protect Tahoe from being destroyed again. Now they have lost sight of that vision and they only see dollar signs. Once Tahoe has been destroyed, we wont get it back. It doesn’t matter how many times you loop the road, if we have 50,000 more people here, there’s going to be a traffic jam. Yes, we need tourism to survive, but guess what? Tourism is also going to kill us! Soon it will all be gone and then no one will want to be here and then Tahoe can be like it was in the 50’s again. Cant we just skip the process of destroying her?
Did anybody else have to drive Hwy 50 yesterday? If getting up to the basin continues to be as much fun as that, you won’t have to worry about transportation within. I’d never put myself through that again if I didn’t absolutely have to.
Yes Christmas-New Years weeks have been bumper to bumper for decades. That’s why our ski passes are blacked out.
If you try and drive down hwy 50 on the fourth of July weekend it will be the same.
Except for the sidewalk construction hwy 50 is much less crowded than during the 70’s-80’s.
Yes, I know. My husband and I have been doing it for 30 years to visit his family for Christmas Eve/Days. This is the worst I remember it being in ages. Probably because it’s the first really great snow we’ve had for the holidays in years, too. It was bad in more locations because the snow level went down to Camino. Clots everywhere. Yesterday eastbound, the 2 mile stretch between Pollock Pines and Sly Park exits took over a half hour to travel.
Sunriser2—Exempt from Smog? Why have I had to have our cars smog certified on the South Shore?
Old story about smogging in the basin: https://www.laketahoenews.net/2009/10/inconsistent-air-pollution-concerns/
California requires smog certification when vehicle titles change or a car is being registered new in the state.
LTN staff
Tahoecalm,
Most places require smog every year to get registered.
I have several of my friends register their cars at my address to avoid the smog check.
Like everyone else I was spoiled during the great recession. The traffic is still not close to peak years.
Dog…’clots everywhere’…exactly!…no matter what you do to get more people driving around this Lake what about those ‘off/out of the basin clots’? They’re just going to get worse so your inconvenient drive time is still going to be longer than anyone will tolerate.
My drive time on the 26th from placerville to home in SLT took 3.5 hours. The point from pollock pines to fresh pond took over an hour. There were thousands of cars/people scurrying all over the place at fresh pond. It was like an ant hill that had been kicked open. The next stop was at strawberry where the same thing, people all over the hwy trying to park, cross the road, play in the road, dogs in the road, it was really a scary thing and im amazed noone was killed. From strawberry all the way to meyers took about 2 and a half hours. The traffic going west was at a total standstill to about half way down echo summit. I can only imagine how long it took those people to get past strawberry. Its best to just go nowhere during the holidays.
the air quality is also influenced by the cold temperatures that create an inversion keeping smoke, exhaust on the ground, two houses by me burn wood for heat and there is a blue haze throughout the neighborhood that has been here for days. They burn garbage as well. Its pretty selfish of them but the city wont do anything about it. Go figure…