Local News in Brief : Countywide : Route Tentatively OKd for Eastern Corridor
The exact route of all but a short and hotly debated stretch of the Eastern Transportation Corridor was approved Thursday by the Eastern/Foothill Transportation Corridor Agency.
The TCA, a public body that controls Orange County’s proposed toll roads, postponed any final alignment of the corridor through Peter’s Canyon for another year for further study of any sound, pollution and view problems.
The Board of Supervisors made the same decision Wednesday.
The agreed-upon route calls for the Eastern Corridor to cut through the Anaheim Hills from the Riverside Freeway at Gypsum Canyon and split into two legs near Santiago Canyon Road. One leg would connect with the Santa Ana and Laguna freeways intersection. The second leg would go through Peter’s Canyon and pass under the Santa Ana Freeway near Myford Road.
The stretch through Peter’s Canyon has been the center of years of controversy. Some area homeowners, who are concerned about possible noise and traffic on the toll road, want the corridor merged with a planned extension of Jamboree Boulevard. TCA engineers had recommended that the roads be separate, with the corridor running parallel to and slightly east of Jamboree.
Construction along the entire route is not scheduled to start until 1990.
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