Agency approves six-lane highway through California state park

[Kadie]

Agency approves six-lane highway through California state park

Friday, February 24, 2006



(02-24) 16:52 PST SAN ONOFRE, Calif. (AP) --


A toll road agency has approved a six-lane highway through a state park despite opposition from surfers, environmentalists and state officials.


The Transportation Corridor Agencies board voted 12-3 on Thursday to approve the route through San Onofre State Beach, a popular park that President Nixon helped set aside in 1970.


Agency officials say the toll road, which would complete a 65-mile network of such roads in Orange County, is necessary to improve travel between Orange County and San Diego on an increasingly busy corridor.


Opponents, however, say the 16-mile project would ruin the last open-space camping site along a 200-mile stretch of coast ending at the Mexican border. The park is the state's fifth most popular park, with 2.7 million visitors each year.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/02/24/state/n165214S37.DTL

[Peace Patriot]

1. I never heard of this agency, "The Transportation Corridor Agency,"

which the crap-wrap San Francisco Chronicle fails to identify as a California agency, and further makes a rather serious punctuation error in describing: "The Transportation Corridor Agencies board" (multiple boards, is it?) should presumably be written "The Transportation Corridor Agency's board," and the jurisdiction (California) should be identified. Is this an Orange County agency or agencies? A Terminator agency or agencies? A Bush junta agency or agencies? Some private agency or agencies concocted by road engineering lobbyists? A sub-agency of CalTrans?

"Agency officials say..." They spoke in concert, did they?

Jeez. Sometimes I think the brains of war profiteering corporate news monopoly "reporters" are actually melting, like the Arctic glaciers, are just sort of oozing down their faces and disappearing.

Actually, it's AP. I just re-checked.

Kudos to the anonymous reporter, though, for quoting "opponents" and not just Junta-Terminator quotes.

I got off subject here. All I meant to say is that California's highly touted environmental laws are not all they're cracked up to be. Some of them are just bullshit. In this case, the California Coastal Commission might stop it. Its members are not all Terminator-appointed.

One thing I do know, for sure: This 65-mile toll road is absolutely NOT "necessary to improve travel between Orange County and San Diego on an increasingly busy corridor." The region is horribly over-developed as it is--with millions of new ticky-tacky, cookie cutter, unsustainably constructed housing developments covering miles and miles and miles of once beautiful green hills, with NO services infrastructure, so all these many millions of people have to drive everywhere for everything they need, and this road will make things much worse, and encourage MORE of this kind of development. What is happening to this region is madness. It is horrible.

More fossil fuel use. More wars to obtain fossil fuels. More air pollution. More global warming. Less greenery. More species extinctions. Less beauty. Less quiet. Less wild. Southern California is basically being paved over. And these drones of "The Transportation Corridor Agency" (what is this, some kind of new Homeland Security thing?), like the drones at Caltrans, with their drone voices and their drone faces, and their billionaire developers, and zillionaire oil executives, in the background, in the back room, have NO understanding of humanity, of community, of good design, of sustainable living, and no wisdom.

It just breaks your heart. :cry:

[maveric]

2. San Onofre has a nuclear reactor.

A large facility right on I-5.

[bananas]

4. And the campground is right next to it.

They're going to squeeze a six-lane toll road between I-5 and The Breasts.

edit: photo found on google showing the containment domes and the highway.
http://www.emagazine.com/november-december_2001/1101feat2.html
http://www.emagazine.com.nyud.net:8090/images/1101feat1b.jpg

[bananas]

3. A toll road?

They're destroying San Onofre state park for a toll road?

[Telly Savalas]

5. How else are we going to cure "America's addiction to oil"?