Will Jamboree and Weir Canyon roads ever meet?

Q. Has there been an effort to connect the dead-end of Jamboree Road to Weir Canyon Road? Is it feasible? Too far? Too expensive? It seems to me that the benefits would be enormous. - Diana Davis, Yorba Linda A . This idea is not new. The outdated Thomas Bros, atlas that guides me through Orange County shows a proposed Jamboree Road extension snaking northward in broken lines to meet up with Weir Canyon Road. But it's never happened. For an explanation, I turned to Ed Knight, the assistant community development director for the city of Orange, where Jamboree now ends. He said the Orange County Master Plan of Arterial Highways also planned for Weir Canyon and Jamboree roads to eventually wed one day. "The city of Orange General Plan also included this highway designation," Knight said. Keep in mind that the no-man's land between Orange and Anaheim Hills doesn't belong to the city; it's under the jurisdiction of the county. We'll come back to that later. "Approval of the current East Orange Planned Community in 2005 reduced overall development in the study area," Knight said. "Traffic studies showed that the extension was no longer needed." Fewer homes, fewer people with cars in their garagesequals fewer cars on nearby arterial roads. "Part of the approval process included removing the roadway extension from the city's General Plan," Knight said. "The extension was also removed from the (county's) MPAH and no longer appears as a potential highway." Roadside attraction: More Californians are taking to the Internet to do business with the Department of Motor Vehicles. According to DMV statistics, drivers did more than 10.5 million transactions with the DMV in 2010, a 12-percent increase over the previous year. Vehicle registrations, easily the most popular online transaction, jumped 11.5 percent to 7.1 million. Online in-iver's license renewals surged 8 percent to 1.03 million in 2010, and half of the agency's 2 million changeof-address notifications were done online. "Doing business online makes sense for both our customers and the DMV," DMV Director George Valverde said in a statement. What the statement doesn't mention is something that could be one of the factors driving customers to the Internet.