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Finally! Common sense enters the discussion about what to do over West Cliff Drive and shoreline erosion.
I am referring to Glenn Seiler’s op-ed about keeping the street for two-way traffic and natural feature restoration. Hooray!
I am one of those mobility-impaired senior residents of Santa Cruz. I walk with a walker and cannot possibly bicycle or even drive myself. If I want to visit the short-term parking lot overlooking Natural Bridges State Beach, someone drives me.
The way the Santa Cruz City Council talks and behaves regarding cyclists, I get the distinct impression the members are actively hostile to the mobility-impaired.
Every time the council limits vehicle access in downtown, it is also limiting access to downtown for people like me. Are we all supposed to shut up and go away? Preferably drop dead so as not to bother anyone or be a roadblock to the sacred two-wheelers?
I get such pleasure from a few minutues of looking out over the ocean and at the arches covered with sea birds and washed regularly by the tides. But the council seems determined to deny that to me — or at least make it a whole lot harder to get to than it is already for me.
And if natural feature restoration (NFR) can shore up the shoreline against further erosion and be environmentally friendly, do it! NFR sounds a lot like regenerative agriculture that relies on grazing herds to restore the health of the soil and maintain it.
Candace Lynn Talmadge
Santa Cruz