The reason is growth in Sacramento and the Bay Area will ensure more cars and trucks keep coming across Solano County, located in-between these two metropolitan centers. These funding sources have been successful in building more roads and highways across other California counties, said Will Kempton, a Sacramento-based traffic consultant. Vacaville City Councilman Ernest Kimme asked what the Bay Area is doing to provide more affordable housing to keep up with its explosive job growth. The answer was little, if anything. This in turn, Kempton says, will bring even more people to Solano County in search of cheaper housing.
Increased traffic is sure to follow.
What kind of traffic system will relieve the county's traffic problems is still open to question. Critics warn that building more freeways is not enough. Added freeways will only attract more traffic. Instead they say what is needed is more mass transit, including trains, buses and ferry boats. A second public forum on transportation is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 24 in Fairfield and a third will be held in Vallejo at 7 p.m. on Feb. 26.