Monday, Sept. 19
A plan to widen the San Diego (405) Freeway is revised today by an Orange County Transportation Authority committee . . . THIS JUST IN: Scott Moxley reports that Amit Kumar Sinha, the man accused of calling in a bomb threat in a failed attempt to halt a medical school graduation at UCI, pleaded to making a bomb threat and will receive three years of formal probation, as well as pay $5,000 to a victims’ fund. Sinha must also stay away from UCI, which is what got him into trouble in the first place. Prosecutors allege that he tried to stop the graduation ceremony so his parents, who had been sending him money for his medical education at UCI, would not find out that he had never even applied to the school. . . . Now, back to the freeway: The committee recommends adding two lanes in each direction in that area around Los Alamitos, Seal Beach and the junction of the 22 freeway where you want to eat your own head. OCTA officials, who believe the widening will cost about $500 million before graft, say it will increase rush hour speeds by five miles per hour, bringing rush hour speeds up to an average of five miles per hour.