The Devastating Effects of Tollways
It’s not driving the toll roads that’s scary.
It’s not the process of paying the tolls that is scary.
What’s really scary is how these toll roads are shoved down our throats at every turn.
Want to know what else scares me? It’s thinking about the devastation of what little open space we have left in south Orange County. The fact that future generations will never have a chance to see it as it was created is why I won’t drive the toll roads.
If one wants to imagine how a toll road might look as it cuts through the back country and merges into the San Diego Freeway, one need only look as far as the devastation caused by the interchange of the freeway and Vista Hermosa, currently under construction in San Clemente. Multiply how that looks by about a thousand.
Jeff Shimkus
San Clemente
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