11:27 p.m. A black BWM loaded with illegal aftermarket exhaust systems, is racing with a white Honda, that is also loaded with a rear stabilizer wing and aftermarket exhaust, are violating noise ordinances, drag racing from a racing start northbound at Clubhouse and Crown Valley Speedway, and exceed 80+ mph by the time they get to Paseo del Niguel.
This is a stretch of speedway where cars have crashed through the block walls, endangering the residents below the speedway, spinning out across the median, and people have died.
Poorly designed roads encourage speeding and allow for bad driving behavior. Crown Valley Speedway was four lanes, and handled just as much through traffic, before they added two more lanes within the same street width, allowing for more lane drift, more swerving, and the perception that increased speeds, were safer? It's a case of extremely poor road design based on outdated models that allow for county and state funding resources, and old thinking from the 1960s and 70s. The current "nearing retirement age" traffic engineers are still using "models of efficiency" their professors learned in school in the 1940s and 50s in the hopes of creating a modern and dynamic future. Fast traffic models should not dictate the design of a bedroom community. Will it take another 20 years for engineers to wake up?
Racing cars and motorcycles all night long along the Laguna Niguel Speedways disrupt the sleep patterns of thousands of residents. Perhaps city officials and traffic engineers need to camp overnight along our "safe" speedways and get a taste of what real life here is like. Having cars driving 60+ mph less than 40 feet from houses is unnecessary and absurd. [Thank you to residents along both sides of CV Speedway for this information tonight].
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