As a resident of the City of Pasadena, CA I am very concerned with the health and safety issues caused by the following:
1. Traffic on the main freeway flowing through Pasadena, which on most mornings and afternoons is practically stopped from the point you enter Pasadena to the time you leave. It appears that the City needs to do more to lobby the state and government officials to mitigate this traffic, as it is basically cars and trucks sitting on the road in city limits running their engines and polluting our air. In addition onramps and off-ramps are jammed with cars trying to get on and off the the 210 Foothill Freeway.
The 210 to 134 interchange needs to be retrofitted to handle better traffic patterns, as what is there now is not working.

2. Speeding on city streets, I see cars speeding by my home on Orange Grove on a pretty consistent basis. I have seen the speed detection trailer on the street from time to time and I can go out there and always see cars speed by unless I stand there on the sidewalk with a camera. An idea would be to place a patrol car with or without a n officer to catch these speeders. It is pretty bad. Here’s a few pictures taking within minutes of checking the display and watching cars break the 40mph speed limit. And I believe the 40mph is too high, it should be 30 or 35mph. There’s a speed detector closer in East Pasadena that is working sometimes, and I believe it flashes when cars speed by. What I am asking myself is what are the results of the trailer that is moved from location to location, is the city sharing this data? Is it available at the police station? from a PIO, Public Information Office for the City of Pasadena, if someone from the city of Pasadena reads this could you let me know. Please.

I am concerned with improving the quality of life in Pasadena, not increasing the density of living and worsening the conditions. Our air quality is bad enough, and the noise of cars speeding by homes doesn’t help.

Thanks,
Victor

The famous TV show host Jimmy Fallon has given a statement that she has spoofed about the participant Kate Gosselin paparazzi’s dance in the dance show ” Dancing with the Stars”

Dancing with the Stars is a reality show in United States which  is based on UK’s BBC Television Series.  Last night, during the dance show, Kate experienced a strange mannerism from her routine with Tony Dovalani, and had lot of confusions.  He behave oddly and claimed that, they are expression to attract judges eyes. Only, when Jimmy did the identical dance step-for-step, it was hilarious, brilliant and spot-on.  Actually speaking, Jimmy decided to give away his his best, but it took a page out of Kate. When the results were announced, he was so furious and frustrated and was not ready to accept it.

Watch Dancing with the star show regularly for more twists and twirls.

Yesterday, the senate forced the credit card companies to lower the credit and debit card transaction fees and allow merchants to offer discounts based on the payment method people has taken. Almost 60% of the the people voted for this decision which is a major defeat to banks. This change will definitely help people to get consumer benefits who failed to get previous year.17 members supported this and 10 were against it. This vote inserted a new fee requirement in the financial rules. The current practice is Business Owners and Card Companies will have agreements that the credit card companies should pay 2 to 3 percent commissions for each transaction processed to the business owners .
At the same point of time, Credit Card companies also happy about this, as they would force consumers to pay more for their credits. This wuld help large retailers to earn more profits.

Major Credit card companies like MasterCard, Visa, American Expess has said this policy would affect small banks and credit unions. MasterCard argued that similar rule in Australia didn’t fetch any profits to retail customers