{"id":458197,"date":"2025-12-19T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458197\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:32:10","slug":"la-jolla-cove-stairway-project-will-put-public-at-risk-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458197\/","title":{"rendered":"La Jolla Cove stairway project will put public at risk \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cRockslide risk a concern for La Jolla stair project\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/11\/06\/rockslide-in-la-jolla-raises-questions-about-plan-for-beach-access-stairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov. 6<\/a>): This Princess Street stairway project was approved by people clearly not familiar with this dangerous, deep part of La Jolla Cove. Its appropriate longtime name is \u201cDevil\u2019s Slide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are frequent cliff landslides here including when sudden falling dirt and rocks bloodied my head while picking up cliffside trash.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a family-friendly area. There is no beach and higher tide seating is on wet, slippery rocks directly under these unpredictable, crumbling cliffs.<\/p>\n<p>There are no restrooms or trash cans and it is a protected marine reserve without officials making sure it isn\u2019t abused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevil\u2019s Slide\u201d can be safely visited at low tides and doesn\u2019t need a stairway, which could lead to a tragic injury or worse. Please end this unnecessary and misguided project before it breaks ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Don Balch, Clairemont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cRockslide risk a concern for La Jolla stair project\u201d (Nov. 6): This Princess Street stairway project was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-458197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115747431653424776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}