{"id":6381,"date":"2009-03-12T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6381"},"modified":"2009-03-12T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:44:04","slug":"trestles-toll-road-bad-idea-from-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6381","title":{"rendered":"Trestles Toll Road: Bad Idea From The Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Monica City Councilman and former chairman of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=843\" target=\"_blank\">California State Park and Recreation Commission<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Bobby Shriver<\/strong> and <strong>Joel Reynolds<\/strong>, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, explain in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-reynolds10-2009mar10,0,4748674.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> why the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?s=trestles+toll+road\" target=\"_blank\">Trestles Toll Road<\/a><\/strong> was a bad idea from the beginning without even mentioning surfing. They say the problem is with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetollroads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation Corridor Agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Legislature chartered the TCA; now it must fix it. The TCA&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-reynolds10-2009mar10,0,4748674.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}