Traffic: Mid-City Plan Has Impact on Businesses, Residents

I read, with interest, the various letters to editor complaining about the Montana Traffic Plan. As a person in business on Wilshire Boulevard, I can add that we have been severely impacted by the Mid-City Traffic Plan, which has eliminated using Arizona Avenue or Broadway. All that additional traffic is now on Wilshire, Santa Monica and Colorado boulevards. When people moved on Broadway, Arizona or the other busy streets they knew there was traffic on the street. Residents now affected had no way to know this would happen to them.

Most of the letters criticized the planning commission. What needs to be asked is who appoints these people? The answer is the majority members of the City Council. The only way to change the makeup of the planning commission and make them more responsive to the entire community is to replace those majority members of the City Council who support the commission and the changes they have instituted. Remember, in 1996 you can vote to replace (council members) Ken Genser, Judy Abdo and Paul Rosenstein, and the new majority can appoint different planning commissioners.

RONNI SCHNEIDER Santa Monica