Musk’s proposal is, in some ways, a throwback to an earlier age, when California believed that building more freeways and later toll highways were the answer to California’s traffic problems. More recently, transportation officials have focused on mass transit, adding to Los Angeles County’s light-rail network, planning an expansion of the Bay Area’s heavy-rail system and getting the state’s high-speed rail line off the ground.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times