Santa Monica City Councilman and former chairman of the California State Park and Recreation Commission Bobby Shriver and Joel Reynolds, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, explain in the LA Times why the Trestles Toll Road was a bad idea from the beginning without even mentioning surfing. They say the problem is with the Transportation Corridor Agencies.
The Legislature chartered the TCA; now it must fix it. The TCA’s unequivocal mandate must be addressing traffic congestion, not just building toll roads, and it must answer to a comprehensive state transportation agency, in consultation with affected regional agencies . . . We need mobility, and we need parkland. And we can have both if only we refuse to settle for less. . . Running a toll road through San Onofre State Beach was a bad idea from a fundamentally flawed agency. Stopping it was a victory for the region. But what happens next will determine whether that victory has lasting significance.
[Link: LA Times]
