Freeway Fees Controversy in Irvine

Re Kim Murphy’s article “Irvine Citizen Group Loses Appeal to Block Freeway Fees” (Jan. 1):

The ruling by the appellate court that the proposed freeway through Irvine is a state matter and not that of the city should then presuppose that the financing thereof is a state matter.

And going from the sublime to the ridiculous, traffic really affects the nation at large and, hence, Congress should get into the act, or perhaps the United Nations.

On another note, however, the court is denying the basic rights of the people--certainly the right of initiative is inalienable.

Furthermore, the City Council, to whom the court looks for guidance, is in fact supposed to do the will of the people, and if its members do not, the people have only initiative action and/or recall to see to it that their wishes are followed. To deny them this right is way off base.

All of us in the United States have always believed in Lincoln’s of, by and for the people. All that has gone on, especially in Orange County these last few years, certainly is a far cry from those precepts.

I am happy to see 1985 as a thing of the past, and I along with many others hope that 1986 will show an about-face in the attitude of our entire political and judicial machinery.

ALAN L. BLUM

Balboa Island