Orange County Needs New Toll Road
Re “They’d Pave Over Reagan’s Park,” Opinion, May 8: Environmental protection and transportation improvements are important characteristics of the Orange County lifestyle. The Foothill-South toll road will be one of the most environmentally friendly roadways ever built.
Foothill-South is a four-lane road -- hardly huge by Southern California standards -- which will skirt the inland portion of the San Onofre State Park. This area is separated from the beach by the existing Interstate 5. Additionally, the San Mateo Campground would remain untouched and the new road would connect to I-5 with bridges to minimize impacts to San Mateo Creek and surrounding wetlands.
Orange County has a 51-mile toll road network used by nearly 300,000 people a day. We have proved that we can build roads and be good stewards of the land.
Ken Ryan
Chairman, Foothill/Eastern
Transportation Corridor
Agency, Yorba Linda
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