On traffic, think small

WITH APOLOGIES to the Staples office-supply chain for stealing its slogan, Los Angeles transit planners could stand to push the "Easy" button more often. While dreamers debate multibillion-dollar solutions to the Westside's maddening traffic crunch, including wider freeways and a subway to the sea, L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has his finger on the Easy button: Why not just turn Olympic and Pico boulevards into one-way streets going opposite directions?

March 31, 2007