Problems are easy to find. Solutions are not. Well that is what we are told. I question why solutions available are being blocked. 1) Sound from freeway has been increasing as trees are cut down and NOT being replaced.    Sound  walls exist. Why are they not being put up next to the freeway. instead we have a chain link fence.   We are only Lower lake Forest! 2) Traffic.  Google can work with cities to help coordinate traffic based upon the phones everyone have.  If the city began implementing this the traffic would flow more smoothly with less stopping .  One requirement to do this requires the traffic lights to be connected with  fiber optic cables.  Why is the city not requiring anyone doing construction on the streets to put a hollow pipe / tube under the ground before closing up the ground? Eventually a lot of the city would be connected lowering the final cost. Another option is to allow another company to install fiber optic cabling in the neighborhoods and to include additional runs for the stop lights. The city could also give subsidized incentives as it would be cheaper than running the cables themselves. The end result, there would be an enhanced traffic flow AND real competition to COX CABLE's expensive internet options except we would be paying less but getting over 30 times the speed . This one act would fix traffic and allow for fair competition of  Internet and communication . Now we only have AT&T with old outdated infrastructure and Cox with 20 to 25 year old underground cabling (not Fiber) . Neither have any incentive to update.