TCA's  failed policies and taxation authority continue 20 years after they built their last road.

We know their past failures:
* Orange County's Transportation Corridors Agency failed in its stated mission " enhancing mobility in Orange County and Southern California."
* The agency's roads are among the least used in Orange County, providing benefit to a tiny minority of the millions mired in daily commutes.

Because of their failed financial model TCA's original tenet-- that tolls would retire the bonds and their roads would become freeways-- will never be realized. As a result TCA's roads are little more than empty promises for home buyers lured by the illusion of ready access; OC residents resolve instead to join the congestion on freeways they can financially afford. Meanwhile we all pay to maintain, patrol, and fix TCA's tollways with our tax dollars.

The agency's #1 priority now is self preservation. Their dogged promotion of the San Mateo alignment ended with multiple defeats by every agency they faced. Their pursuit of that alignment combined with damages now owed to NGOs adds to their already unmanageable debt. Now it thrusts itself into projects-- like Los Patroes Parkway-- which are literally none of its business.

It's clear TCA is wantonly tone deaf. Whatever actual transportation value TCA may have provided in the past has long since expired. Three agencies working together-- Orange County Public Works, OCTA, and Caltrans-- are more than capable of providing equitable transportation management for the citizens of Orange County.

TCA must be stripped of it's power of eminent domain, stripped of their ability to tax through "development fees," stripped of their joint powers authority.

The agency must be abolished.