Accelerating climate costs force difficult choices:
“City piers provide coastal access to people who can’t swim or walk on the beach…and tend to serve a broad swath of their communities.
[But] they keep getting beat up by the ocean and costing taxpayers millions of dollars to repair or replace.”
Lawrence Culver
El Niño turns crumbling California pier into climate battleground over what to save — and who pays
Rep. Sam Liccardo wants to rebuild the Pacifica pier with help from the federal government. But does investing in this kind of infrastructure make sense?
