Toll-Road Plan an Ecological Disaster
* Re “Park Plan Gives Wildlife a Way,” March 17:
To see that the Orange County River Park is finally coming to fruition is really great news for Orange County residents, at least those of us who care about saving some open space for wildlife and people.
The next step is to shoot down one of the most damaging toll-road plans of all time, now in the planning stage: to build a toll road covering 10 miles of the Santa Ana River.
The proposed toll road would destroy 10 miles of feeding grounds for shorebirds and also destroy the Santa Ana River Trail, a 50-mile urban wonder.
People who want to continue using this trail should let Huntington Beach’s anti-environmentalist Assemblyman Scott Baugh know what they think of this proposed atrocious ecological disaster.
Baugh is the toll-road backers’ point man in the Assembly.
JAMES R. GALLAGHER
Huntington Beach
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