COUNTYWIDE : Group Forming to Promote Monorail

A citizens group is being formed to promote monorail transit and other solutions to county transportation problems.

Called Citizens to End Traffic, the group has scheduled a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the El Toro Library at the corner of Raymond Way and El Toro Road.

One of the founders of the group, Tom Woods, is a writer and producer of a cable TV talk show, “Improving Orange County Today,” which is aired in Costa Mesa.

Orange County’s traffic woes remain “despite the existence of numerous internationally proven and successful high-tech traffic and highway safety solutions,” said Woods, who is a also a psychologist.

“The driving public has been woefully denied the exciting and positive facts by the media, the educational establishment and our elected political leadership,” Woods said. “The purpose of CTET is to fill this public informational gap and significantly improve our local, state and national transportation system for the mutual benefit of all Americans, present and future.”

The group’s first meeting, Woods said, will feature a videotape of high-speed, magnetically levitated trains in Germany and Japan.

Woods said he personally believes that a levy of $100 on each taxpayer is needed to build monorail lines in the medians of most freeways in Southern California.

Woods said additional information is available by calling (714) 647-1980.