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Q. Hi Honk: I’ve been driving up and down Beach Boulevard from Buena Park to Huntington Beach for astir of the past 25 years. So erstwhile thing caller pops up I’m definite to notice. And a caller Monday greeting thing caller did popular up. I noticed agleam flashing lights astir midway up galore of the inferior poles, lone betwixt Lincoln Avenue and Ball Road. It appears the lights were attached to what look similar information cameras. Any thought what’s up? Is Big Brother spying connected us? Why lone betwixt Lincoln and Ball? Should I commencement taking a caller route?
– Jeff Trentini, La Mirada
A. Security cameras, so Jeff – installed connected that information of Beach wrong the metropolis limits of Anaheim, which has struggled with quality trafficking, prostitution, homelessness and cause problems there.
“But they are not for postulation enforcement, and anyone utilizing Beach to commute should not beryllium concerned,” Mike Lyster, a metropolis spokesman, told Honk.
“We connection extended services to combat the tragedies of prostitution, homelessness and cause abuse,” helium said. “But we indispensable besides tackle the regular issues of the area, which person superior impacts connected adjacent residents and businesses that bash service the community. …
“That is wherever the cameras travel in,” Lyster said. “They are a 2nd acceptable of eyes for nationalist safety. If we person a telephone of concern, we tin cheque cameras archetypal for further accusation arsenic officers are dispatched.
“Or possibly the ocular gives america capable accusation to dispatch our squad of societal workers alternatively of officers, if that is the champion effect to a social, alternatively than strictly nationalist safety, issue.”
The metropolis sees redevelopment arsenic a cardinal to improving that agelong of Beach.
“At the bosom of our strategy is redevelopment arsenic a lively, walkable corridor with caller homes, shops, eating and different activities,” helium said. “That redevelopment is starting present astatine Beach and Lincoln Avenue, and we look guardant to seeing it widen southward to Ball Road successful coming years.”
Those lights, by the way, are meant to get your attention.
“(They are) meant to gully attraction to the camera,” Lyster said. “We privation them to beryllium seen … truthful determination is simply a deterrent effect.”
Q. I work your file each week and look guardant to immoderate caller kernels of cognition I whitethorn glean. Liked your numbers connected the hybrids and electrical cars, but those numbers are meaningless if not enactment successful context, i.e., however galore ICEs are besides registered?
– Les Thomas, Laguna Hills
A. Les isn’t talking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but interior combustion engine.
A period agone Honk mentioned however galore hybrid and electrical vehicles were registered successful California arsenic of Jan. 1, according to a Caltrans report.
OK, Les figured, large – but however bash those figures comparison to the fig of strictly ICE vehicles that tally connected gas, diesel, propane, earthy state oregon the like?
Honk reached retired to Will Arnold, a Caltrans spokesperson up successful the Sacramento headquarters, to look implicit his enarthrosis portion helium sifted done immoderate authorities stats to guarantee helium got it right. As usual, Honk did.
Because of precisely erstwhile stats were pulled from the Department of Motor Vehicles’ database by Caltrans, the fig of ICEs mightiness beryllium disconnected a smidgen for Jan. 1. But adjacent capable to get the idea:
- ICEs: 34,033,837 (95%)
- Hybrids: 1,386,383 (4%)
- Electrics: 400,197 (1%)
To inquire Honk questions, scope him astatine honk@ocregister.com. He lone answers those that are published. To spot Honk online: ocregister.com/tag/honk. Twitter: @OCRegisterHonk
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