Pave Mulholland and Drive Away Problems

* Your article “Trying to Tame a Rowdy Road” (June 13), regarding the crime problems along an unimproved six-mile section of Mulholland Drive, only offers a temporary solution to this troubled area.

This kind of problem doesn’t exist along the paved stretches of Mulholland Drive where there is a regular flow of traffic. A paved road could be easily patrolled by police and accessible to firefighters. Certainly we don’t need the “private” conservancy rangers controlling gates along a public road as some suggest.

If Mulholland Drive became a major east-west road that has been so long planned, we would also improve our Valley traffic congestion. Perhaps this road, which runs adjacent to hundreds of acres of our parkland, should be completed so it no longer has the appearance of a “back road in Baja” and can be enjoyed by all citizens for both business travel and access to our park recreation areas. We need more permanent solutions, not more Band-Aids.

JACK T. COLLIS

Encino