Panel OKs Assemblyman’s Effort to Halt O.C. Toll Road Extension
A Santa Barbara legislator, citing environmental concerns, wants to stop a proposed 16-mile toll road extension through San Onofre State Beach in southern Orange County.
Democratic Assemblyman Pedro Nava, a former state Coastal Commission member, said he doesn’t think the extension should be built.
Instead, he recommended setting aside $450,000 for an independent University of California study to assess traffic in south Orange County.
An Assembly budget subcommittee approved the recommendations at a hearing Wednesday.
“This road is a bad idea, it’s in the wrong place and it doesn’t make any sense,” Nava said.
Nava, a member of the Assembly’s Budget Committee, said he hoped the recommendation would be included in the state budget.
A spokesman for the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency in Orange County, which proposed the road, could not be reached for comment Friday.
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