Irvine Voters Don’t Speak for Rest of County

Re “CenterLine Funds Stay in Budget,” Letters, June 29:

I find it interesting that John Kleinpeter believes the residents of Irvine control the transportation destiny of the rest of Orange County. His comments regarding the decision of the Orange County Transportation Authority to keep money in its budget for CenterLine made a rather hypocritical reference to ego. Isn’t it much more egotistical to think that an advisory vote by a few Irvine residents should quash CenterLine for everyone?

It’s even more interesting that Kleinpeter neglected to mention that Measure B, his own attempt to remove light rail completely from the future of Irvine, was also shot down. If Irvine does not want CenterLine, that is for its residents to decide. But do not presume to suggest that they speak for all of Orange County, or worse yet, that the decision by OCTA to continue to pursue CenterLine is wrong, simply because 9,423 people in Irvine didn’t want it.

Nabor Lopez Jr.

Anaheim