Free summer trolleys are essential

Roger Carter

The merchants, hotel owners and local residents must be aghast after

reading comments by City Council members Wayne Baglin and Elizabeth

Pearson in regard to the free summer trolleys.

The business people and locals of Laguna know that before the free

trolleys, summer attendance and parking meter revenue was taking a

free-fall. People don’t flock to Laguna Beach like they used to.

How dumb are Baglin and Pearson? Do they understand the meaning of

a concept? Do they realize the free trolleys were an original idea

that attracted even more people to Laguna the second year and in the

future could see record breaking ridership.

Pearson and Baglin apparently would like our summers to die --

along with our hotels and merchants and for Laguna Beach to become a

sterile, dead destination resort. Free trolleys have already changed

that. Let’s not lose a really good idea because of two provincial

City Council members.

* ROGER CARTER is a Laguna Beach resident.