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.
These streets are designed primarily for speed and allow for bad driving behavior. Does anyone realize that Crown Valley Speedway was four lanes, and handled just as much through traffic, before they added two more lanes allowing for more lane drift, more swerving, and the perception that increased speeds were safer (Note: didn't the additional lanes also increase funding to the city coffers from the county and state)? It's a case of extremely bad road design based on outdated models and old thinking from the 1960s and 70s. The current "nearing retirement age" traffic engineers are still using models their professors learned in school in the 1940s. 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. 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 within 40 feet of houses is absurd. [Thank you to residents above and below CV Speedway for this information tonight].
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