UPDATE: We just learned the Coastal Commission voted NO on the toll road.

Jim Troyer – the Underground’s Director of Saltwater Fly Fishing and Beach-Related Alcohol Consumption – asked for some quick help on this one.

In Southern California, they’re fighting a pretty desperate battle to keep some yutzes form building a private, freeway-sized toll road that would run right through San Onofre State Park and Beach in Southern California. (As if SoCal needs ONE MORE DAMNED FREEWAY to clog.)

This would put the boots to San Mateo Creek — the southernmost home to steelhead (which just happen to be endangered). Not to mention doing a number on famous surf spot Trestles beach.

This isn’t some idle threat — they’re on the verge of approving this “let’s privatize a public resource for someone else’s profit” thing, and even Ahhnold the Terminator has thrown his considerable, steroid-enhanced weight behind it (“Ahllll be back… for your pawks and beaches).

Still, you can tell ‘em to forget about privatizing a public resource — and it will only take you 47 seconds (less if your Web browser fills in the address blanks for you).

Click this link. Fill in a few blanks. Click again.

If you got an extra 28 seconds, you can let ‘em have it with your own personalized message.

Lock and load, Undergrounders. It’s time to dance for our environmental supper.

See you in the trenches, Tom Chandler

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