Toll road leads to opinion bottleneck

Re “New studies contradict forecast of O.C. tollway easing I-5 pinch,” Nov. 14

Your article and the evidence to suggest that the Foothill South toll road would cost billions of dollars yet not solve the problem sounds suspiciously like our war in Iraq.

The toll road would devastate a state park and one of the most famous surfing spots on the planet at an enormous cost to the taxpayer with a guaranteed yield of zip, much like our current fiasco in the Middle East. Haven’t we learned something?

Let’s preserve what we know to be good and not sacrifice our precious resources for some pie-in-the-sky impossibility.

We’re going to have congestion in south Orange County. Face it. Don’t destroy it.

LINDA M. GROSSMAN

Laguna Hills

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We want traffic relief. We need Foothill South. Every south Orange County politician who actively opposed Foothill South in the last election lost. This is not a coincidence.

Even if Interstate 5 were widened to 20 lanes, all it would take is one jackknifed truck and everyone would be stuck.

Foothill South provides a badly needed alternative to that increasingly congested freeway.

Also, Foothill South would simply complete the toll road system that has been operating in Orange County successfully for more than 20 years.

PATRICIA AND

WILLIAM LOCHRIE

Fullerton