Full disclosure: I'm not too informed on the 241 Toll Road. I don't see how extending it to San Onofre will reduce traffic on the 5 Freeway. I don't surf so don't particularly care if the legendary waves of Trestles disappeared. I do know that the Transportation Corridor Authority is one of Orange County's worst governmental agencies, and that environmentalists care a bit too much about nature at the expense of other issues.
But after hearing both sides go at it yesterday on AirTalk with Larry Mantle on KPCC-FM 89.3, I know why the TCA didn't get its plans approved by the California Coastal Commission: arrogance.
One of the people interviewed was Lance MacLean, chairman of the Foothill Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency and a member on the Mission Viejo City Council. MacLean told Mantle he was "disappointed" in the Coastal Commission's decision, said "there was no winners" and went on to claim commuters were "doomed," our air quality would "degrade" and state parks would no longer receive $100 million that the TCA promised them if the Coastal Commission allowed the 241.
A couple of minutes later, Huell Howser of California Gold called, "compelled to call in with my two cents" he told Larry through his trademark twang. Huell acknowledged Southern California needed to alleviate traffic but then went into an impassioned defense of state parks and a vicious critique of those who want to tamper with them. Trestles, he said, "wasn't set aside for a park until something better came along; it was set aside FOREVER." View clips from Huell's Trestles special here.
MacLean's response? He called Huell's statements "alarmist."
Alarmist. Saying Huell Howser is an alarmist when it comes to California state parks is like saying Vin Scully overreacts during Los Angeles Dodgers broadcasts, that John Wooden cheers too much whenever the UCLA Bruins play at Pauley. Lance: You don't question Huell when it comes to California treasures; you shut up, learn, and hope you can ever have an ATOM of the respect Howser commands amongst Californians. By the way, it's pronounced "Cristianitos Road," not "Christianitos." And how's the sign stealing treating you these days? - Gustavo Arellano OCWeekly
And from the surfers and campers a big SHOUT OUT and THANK YOU to Huell Howser!
It’s not just the environment, It’s not just about saving trestles, It’s not just about encroaching on land that was dedicated to the state park system, It will not solve the traffic problem. The toll way will probably compound the traffic on already burdened 5, It does not make sense to plug a main artery into one that is at its capacity. The TCA has admitted that the toil way will not work without improving the 5. Improving the 5 is more cost effective, does not encroach as much on the environment, and will not promote as much development. The toll way would open more raw land to development, again compounding the problem; you will have to PAY STAND IN LINE!!!!!!!!!
I will be at the Coastal Commission Meeting Wednesday, Feb. 6 to express my opposition to the completion of the Foothill South 241 Toll Road.
And I think you need to be there with me. -Mickey Muñoz
"I firmly believe one of the greatest legacies we can leave to future generations is the heritage of our land. This expanse of acreage, San Onofre Bluffs State Beach, Now has it's future guaranteed as an official state park."
Governor Ronald Reagan in establishing the State Park at San Onofre April 3 1971
If Arnold was to have just one ghost of Christmas past dream, I wish Governor Ronald Reagan would make that late night visit to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger... .
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The first taste of Limbeck "taking over" Australia during their trip in September '07. in this episode, they discover the current status of punk, find their cd in a real life record store, take over the DJ booth at a dance club, and play a gig at a popular cell-phone company. All in a day in the life of LIMBECK... .
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
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Written by Joe Shlump. BRUCE SAVAGE SAND ASSOCIATES... .
Noll was born in San Diego, California in the month of February 1937. Soon after, he moved north with his mother to the small town of Manhattan Beach. It was here, in the shadow of the pier, that his life was profoundly influenced by such individualists as Jack Wise, Barney Briggs, and Dale Velzy. His job as bait boy at the end of the pier, gave him a birdseye view of the surfers below. Greg started surfing in 1948 and began shaping soon after under the guidance of Dale Velzy. Soon it was off to Oahu, and a quonset hut at Makaha. While on an exploratory trip to the North Shore in 1957, the Pied Piper of Waimea Bay (as Buzzy Trent would call him) talked his friends into paddling out into the taboo waters of The Bay. Waves were caught, everyone came out alive and Waimea was now another spot to surf. As it turned out, Waimea Bay would become the place at which Greg carved his name into surfing history, and he continues to have a love affair with it to this day... .
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