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On the Ormond Beach in Oxnard, California sits the Halaco Company's toxic waste pile which is 4 stories high. It is filled with heavy metals and radioactive materials and many poisonous pollutants. This is what is left over from their metal recycling plant which they begun in the '50's. They were closed down because of their far too frequent safety violations. They have since moved their operation to Tennessee under the name of MagPro, but have left their mess here in Oxnard for the community to deal with. Here's where we are with it now.

During Bike Week in Santa Barbara, one of the events is to ride from BiCi Centro, the community bike shop to the Mercury Lounge way out in Goleta, to watch....bike movies! We just can't get enough of it.

Click to Play The Ventura County Transportation Commission (VCTC) had its annual public hearing on transit needs. It takes testimony to see if there are any unmet needs. The money that is spent for this comes from the California State Transportation Development Act (TDA) which provides funds for local transit, bicycle/pedestrian and street projects. These funds are administered by VCTC. You may share your views of public transit service needs within Ventura County, and between Ventura and Los Angeles/Santa Barbara Counties to help identify unmet transits needs which are reasonable to meet. If the funds are not spent on these needs, road capacity improvements would then receive it. . Das Williams, a part time employee for CAUSE, (Coastal Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy) a grass roots group representing workers, wants to see more transit funding for those who use it every day. Most of the comments were very specific, such as needing another bus run between Ojai and Ventura in the afternoon, additional bike racks on the busses, Sunday service on the Camarrillo Route, more routes between Pt. Hueneme and Los Angeles, Oak View and the High School, Thousand Oaks to Santa Barbara (include fewer transfers and wait times), and to please have the Vista bus stop in Montecito. Ve The moderating Supervisor, Kathy Long, asked staff if these comments and questions that were made had been responded to by the staff. Vic Kamy, Director of transit said, Yes, and they will be responded to after this meeting. We do try to answer the questions for information our riders have. They can also contact our office any time to tell us their concerns. Mary Harris: The disabled need night time service between Thousand Oaks and Santa Barbara. After hours for disabled people need to be coordinated between cities and counties so that they don't become stranded somewhere in the dark. Andrew Hecker: After hours service is needed. The connections between towns need to be coordinated, like the Metro link and Amtrak sharing one ticket. Bus, train connections. It took me a long to figure out the real way to get around. It is sometimes a secret. The service is not publicized enough.