Yesterday, a massive group of surfers, campers and environmentalists flooded a public hearing on a proposed toll road through San Onofre State Park.
The 3500+ person crowd rallied against the 6-lane toll road, which would have taken 320 acres of the park’s land, including sections of a protected marine estuary. In that rare instance of good news, the rabble managed to convince the county commissioners to vote down the toll road, 8 to 2.
The formerly semi-green Governor Schwarzenegger, who has also proposed cutting back the lifeguards at San Onofre, came out in favor of the trans-wilderness freeway last month.
Via LAist.
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This is such great news. Now if we can use that momentum to stop the other blight that is proposing to affect our region; The sunrise Power link. This huge set of power lines that San Diego Gas and Electric is planning to run through the heart of the Anza-Borrego desert need to be stopped.
Thanks for posting this. I’m really glad the toll road project did not pass. Though I have never bodyboarded at Trestles, I have read and heard great things about the surf area from friends and online posters.
Is that power line project still going on? I remember reading about the hundreds of miles of proposed lines through all sorts of parks and national forests a few years ago, and figured it was so absurd that it’d never get past planning.
As for the toll road, it’s a great victory — both for what it accomplished and the precedent it prevented. Cutting funding to a state park, then building a 6-lane toll highway through it to help the budget is a very, very slippery slope.
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