Why The Toll Road Is Dead
Why The Toll Road Is Dead
Posted by Alex Brant-Zawadzki
February 10, 2008 8:16 PM
Navel Gazing, OC Weekly's world-famous staff blog
The Foothill-South (241) toll road extension, as we know it, is dead.
Bold claim, you say? Presumptuous, maybe? Not so.
Recently mi hermano Gustavo Arellano pinpointed the root cause of the Transportation Corridor Agencies' failure to gain Coastal Commission approval for their Final Solution to San Onofre State Beach: ARROGANCE. The TCA presumptuously and sometimes even indignantly refuted the majority of criticism of their project, as reflected in the Response to Comments section of the Environmental Impact Report. A juicy excerpt:
Comment Number: O19-13
Commenter: Terrell Watt Planning Consultants Comment: There is a remarkable claim made that PM10 emissions will increase but that PM10 levels will not and that violations of state standards will not worsen (AQR 4-69, 4-70, 5-10). This defies all logic. And of course that is without accounting for most of the PM10 emissions. Obviously any increase in emissions will increase PM10 levels. The large emissions increases that would actually occur would increase the levels substantially, quite possibly above the federal standards.
Response: The comment is incorrect in summarizing the statements in the Draft EIS/SEIR...."
The comment is incorrect. The impacts are insignificant. You're wrong. We're not listening. Nya nya nya. This has been the general tone of the TCA's response to criticism in the past, and it continues today.
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2 Comments:
Why didn't you print the entire response? Because it undermines your premise? Good thing the OC Weekly prints the whole truth. And by whole I mean 7.4% based on word count. But hey, what's 92.6% between friends.
I guess that's what one should expect from a publication that is picked up more for its escort service and phone sex ads than its reporting. Perhaps you should start working in the advertising department.
For the record here is the remainder of the response.
"... On page 5-10 (Table 5-3), the changes in regional PM10 emissions are shown for various FEC Alternatives and various growth Alternatives. The changes in PM10 emissions compared to the corresponding No Action Alternative range from an increase of five pounds per day to a decrease of five pounds per day. An increase or decrease of five pounds per day is not considered a significant change. As a comparison, the SCAQMD uses a very low operational significance threshold of 150 pounds of PM10 emissions per day. Theclaim that PM10 levels (concentrations) will not increase significantly at intersections is consistent with the regional forecast in the Draft EIS/SEIR which showed that the total PM10 emissions with and without the project does not change significantly. It is also consistent with the traffic assessment that shows the corridor Alternatives removing traffic from arterial roads and intersections, thereby reducing congestion at those intersections."
Now go back to law school and be a crappy lawyer rather than a crappy reporter. You'll be much less obvious as a crappy lawyer.
I love your linked in summary :
"I desire to help reveal, clarify and transmit information with the goal of helping others to make better, more informed decisions so that we all might have an easier time working together to try and foster progress."
and by love I mean it made me throw up in my mouth a bit.
You need modify it to read
"I desire to help reveal, clarify and transmit 7.5% of real information with the goal of helping others to make biased, less informed decisions so that we all might have an easier time by making the world the way I think it should be."
(cross posted @ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/241-toll-road/why-the-toll-road-is-dead-2/)
Hater:
Well? Which is it? 7.4% or 7.5%? Make up your mind! You TCA supporters can never get your numbers right.
I note you don't explain what about the remainder of the response undermined my premise.
By the way, kudos - I've never seen such a spiteful piece of apparently-researched bitchery actually be CROSS-POSTED before. The irony is, by visiting my personal blog, you've doubled my daily hit-count and brought me joy.
"Haters, if you need someone to hate on, feel free to hate on me." -Kat Williams
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