A Voice Against Sunday Mulholland Closure
About the Mulholland Sunday closure from Kanan Road to Seminole Hot Springs (Aug. 5): Is this an efficient and economical use of sheriff’s and CHP personnel?
If the object of the exercise is to end street racing, then identify the dozen or so young men who insist on misusing the public road and impound their vehicles and restrict their licenses. As it is now, the cops are used as hired thugs to harass the business and patrons at the Rockstore, which is being scapegoated as the cause of street racing.
Developers would love Ed & Vern Savko, the owners, to be forced out, to obtain their property for continued exploitation of the Santa Monica Mountains. Where is the Planning Commission? Who is in bed with the local supervisor? Should sheriff’s and CHP units be parked all day Sunday when there are real law enforcement and traffic duties elsewhere on the coast and access roads?
The Mulholland Highway Scenic Corridor, conceived as a recreational route for citizens of Southern California, has become a fat prize for greedy developers intent on paving the entire mountains for profit. And the cops have become their gunsels.
What will be next “For Our Own Good?” PCH closed except for those who can afford to live on the coast?
ALAN D. TEEL
Studio City
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