I drove 17 for about 20 years, my parents drove it when there was a suicide lane and no center barrier. I am well aware. Santa Cruz (and other isolated libera

I drove 17 for about 20 years, my parents drove it when there was a suicide lane and no center barrier. I am well aware. Santa Cruz (and other isolated liberal enclaves) will be it's own death. They literally tried a 0.5% sales tax measure (for the city) mentioning basically paying for homeless services. Where, when you count police and first responder budgets, a double digit percentage of the yearly budget (between about 12-20%) deals with issues resulting from homelessness (and drug issues). They have no idea or competence to handle the problem aside from begging for more money. My partner's family has a shitty little bungalow off of West Cliff surrounded by houses that have sold for $4m. The transient issue still propagates into those neighborhoods with attempted breakins. I can go on for days, having been involved at the civic level there and getting burnt out. It's a beautiful place with an inability to cure it's own woes.