Trestles Saved!

The question isn’t, really, how surfers and other activists managed to organize well enough to stop a private toll road from slicing through a state park in California and threatening a classic surf break at San Onofre; or why local politicians (finally) had the guts to face down the private but authoritative-sounding Transportation Corridor Agencies with a decisive (but not final) vote against the road. The question is how the project got so far in the first place:

Commissioner Steve Blank called TCA CEO Tom Margro back to the podium and asked a series of specific questions that would have made Perry Mason proud, for all intents and purposes dismantling him. The pro-Trestles crowd began to titter, recognizing that momentum suddenly seemed to be on their side, and then erupted when Blank concluded with, “Offers to buy a state park and run a toll road through it are embarrassing.”

Dude, like, yeah.

     posted 13 February 2008 by Michael Scott Moore