Write no fewer than 200 words per question

Write no fewer than 200 words per question (800) total. This assignment is due no later than 11:59pm on Sunday, October 6.

In this essay, you’ll need to respond to the following questions:

A. Caltrans believed that reducing traffic and forcing people to commute was more important despite the fact that it would come at the cost of individual choices in the short term. Do you think that was the right decision? Explain and defend your answer.

B. In what circumstances is it ok to interrupt the daily lives of citizens or impose a burden (and ‘burden’ here can be interpreted in many ways) on ordinary people in order to produce a positive effect for the greater good. Thoroughly describe a specific example of when this would be warranted.

C. In general, which do you think is the more important ethical principle? Protecting the health and well-being of the overall community your products will affect or allowing all consumers and citizens to make personal choices, even if they have a negative consequence? In simpler terms, if forced to choose (meaning you cannot just say you’d ideally find a balance of both) which is more important to protect: personal freedoms or ‘the greater good’? Defend your choice.

D. Didion’s essay was written in 1977. Do a brief amount of research and report back on the current status of the Diamond Lane (now called the HOV lane). Was the project a success or a failure? Even if this project or projects like this end up as failures, are they still worth the risk? What payoffs are needed in order to take such risks?

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Public Transport Policies
Question One
Public transport systems are neverthe most favourable to a population used to using personal means of transport. However, it would be necessary for any government to impose commuting on localsas a means of reducing trafficin any region. The decision by Caltrans to force people to commute as a means of reducing congestion was the right decision irrespective

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