Caltrans as slumlord?

An Orange County Register investigation alleges that Caltrans is in fact the largest slumlord in California. The cause? Aquisition of property for projects that were never built. Over 1/3rd of Caltrans' land inventory was purchased over 30 years ago. Of course, one needs to note here that some of this is for projects that Caltrans intended to build at that time and still may happen or be utilized for transportation capacity (i.e.: the large chunks of right-of-way land Caltrans owns for the 710 completion, the failure to complete that having more to do with litigation and politics than Caltrans). Full story