Tollway Arguments Don’t Hold Up

* If I buy a house and move into it while it is still in escrow, can I tell the escrow company, “Well, you have to complete escrow to sell me the house, it would cost me so much money to move out now”? Judge Linda McLaughlin should give that type of logic from the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency as much credence as the escrow company would give me! Regarding your article “Agency Cites Costly Delays for Toll Road” (Aug. 30), just because the corridor agency chose to go ahead with construction before the environmental review lawsuit was settled, doesn’t mean that the court and, oh yes, we citizens, too, have to bow in subservience to them. From the beginning, the developers and tollway officials have acted as though any objections to their concept of toll roads (whether or not that concept is supported by the public) were just petty inconveniences. Perhaps, if their $100-million reserve fund is depleted, that “cushion against costly delays,” they’ll begin to suspect that they’re not right and everyone else is wrong!

MARY DION

Dana Point