The Surfrider Foundation South Orange County Chapter hosts a “Trestles Victory Party” at 8:30 p.m. Friday at O.C. Tavern, 2369 S El Camino Real, San Clemente.
The little surfer girls and boys feel like hoisting a few in honor of the U.S. Commerce Department deciding against overturning the California Coastal Commission's previous rejection of the Transportation Corridor Agency's proposed toll-road route through San Onofre State Park and too close for comfort to the world-class surf breaks of Trestles. Scores of water lovers from Surfrider and other groups came out to a boisterous Commerce Department fact-finding hearing at Del Mar Fairgrounds in September.
In fact, Friday, Feb. 6, is the one year anniversary of the Coastal Commission vote to strike down the Foothill/South 241 toll-road proposal, so that calls for a second round. Then there was this from yesterday about the TCA's shaky bond ratings, which should further prevent any urge to splurge on a Trestles-wrecking road, so bring us a third, barkeep. And there was the TCA deciding at a recent board meeting not to pursue legal action against the federal government and instead reach out to “stakeholders” for a different traffic solution, and should that traffic solution not involve mucking up Trestles or carving through a state park, why that deserves yet another round. Heck, let's just have it and assume it'll be a Trestles-friendly route. It's not like they can afford to build it without bond financing.
Woooooo, now I'm feeling woozy. There may not be a road to ride on, but can somebody be my designated surfer, er, driver?

OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.