Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Pave the Earth: San Onofre State Beach Threatened



"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."

SF Gate

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is the last great surfing beach in Southern California. It would be so sad if there was a freeway right next to the beach.