The news of the ouster of Clint Eastwood as a member of the California State Parks Commission smacks of politics in every way. Eastwood and other members of the Commission stood up against a proposal to have a freeway placed through San Onofre State Beach, which is north of San Diego near the northern boundary of San Diego County. California has long been praised and lauded for having one of the nation's first and best state parks system and any effort to damage and destroy them should be quelled at every opportunity. California is already the freeway capital of the planet and additional ones, particularly in a sensitive area such as this state park, are plainly foolish and wasteful. California would be best off investing its taxpayer funds for new freeways into a statewide mass transit high speed train system, connecting San Diego to Los Angeles and cities further north in the Golden State. While additional and new freeways are a good idea in other states, the coming shock of massive gasoline prices will render the idea of new freeways a passe idea very soon in California, and mass transit in such a populated state is the only answer and direction to take.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-clint26mar26,0,1332561.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel
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