The 9-Cent Solution
South Orange County taxpayers must be shocked to read that only one week after they reluctantly agreed to a 9-cent-per-gallon tax adding up to billions of dollars for new roads, the planned Foothill and Eastern Corridor roads are not in the program.
San Juan Capistrano Mayor Gary Hausdorfer and John Cox, chairman of the San Joaquin Transportation Corridor Agency board, concluded through a paid survey that frustrated drivers could be exploited to pay a toll of up to $4.50 each way besides the 9-cent-a-gallon tax to drive these future roads. Many taxpayers bought the hype that if they just agreed to pay 9 cents a gallon more, their transportation problems would be solved.
I guess Hausdorfer and Cox just assume that most of the 2.75 million people in Orange County have short memories.
PHILLIP WEISSBURG
San Juan Capistrano
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