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The 91 Express Lanes is a 10-mile road located in Orange County, California. Opened in 1995, it was the first privately financed toll road built in the U.S. since the 1940s. It was also unique in that it was the first fully automated toll project in the world, and also marked this country’s first application of congestion pricing, in which tolls increase at times of busiest road use, and decrease during less travelled hours, with high-occupancy vehicles paying discounted tolls. As with any project that was a first of its kind, the 91 Express Lanes have proved to be a learning experience, and they have been studied by transportation professionals around the world. In this ninth segment of The Infrastructure Show podcast series, Host Professor Joseph Schofer, Director of Northwestern University's Infrastructure Technology Institute, and Co-Host Tom Herman of Vocalo.org,  discuss this topic with Chris Norby, Member of the Orange County Transportation Authority’s Board of Directors, and Orange County Supervisor, 4th District. (19 minutes) For more information, see the web-site: www.theinfrastructureshow.com.

A story about a memorable run in with a stranger on the bus.

Recorded in San Francisco in October, 2008. As it stands, my big gay sisters are one in 18,000 same-sex couples wed legally in California in the time between the Supreme Court granted gays the right to marry and a majority of California voters took those rights away with a controversial ballot measure called Proposition 8. After November 2008, California stopped issuing new marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

California proposes doing away with welfare, officials threatening using eminent domain to build a $58 million memorial for flight 93 on 500 acres of land in Pennsylvania, the Downsizer Dispatch, and journalist Sam Dodson who was arrested nearly two months ago for filming inside the Keene District Court lobby was released on from jail and is on the show. http://www.freemindstv.com

 This is a field recording of seals barking in Morro Bay, CA.