Smart Aleck

The question Nov. 30: The federal government has endorsed building the last stretch of the Long Beach Freeway through South Pasadena. Where else in Southern California do we need a new freeway and why?

L.A. doesn’t need freeways. It needs trains and nonpolluting buses. Freeways divide and create sprawl, while public transportation promotes a cohesive, civilized urban society.

Tim Grant, West Hollywood

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For 30 years they’ve tried to go through, around and over South Pasadena. Why not go under? I bet Britain or France has a good deal on a used Chunneling machine.

Joe R., South Pasadena

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Needed: a north-south freeway paralleling La Brea Avenue/Hawthorne Boulevard from Cahuenga Pass to Palos Verdes. The 405 is on the Westside, 110 on the Eastside. The center has nothing.

Jan Rasmussen, Harbor City

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Needed freeways:

* Back-to-the-Futurama Freeway: a road lost in time and space as it meanders through So Cal in an endless circuit of theme parks.

* SimiLinda Freeway (via Whittier and Bel-Air): It shouldn’t take executive privilege to zip between L.A.’s presidential libraries.

* Getty Spaghetti: Starts and ends in Brentwood. No interchanges.

* Crystal Carthedral: The first stealth freeway, built entirely of glass. A lattice of roads spanning the entire region. NIMBY won’t oppose what NIMBY can’t see.

* Terminal Island Freeway: A freeway connecting nowhere to nowhere on the outskirts of San Pedro (oops--that’s already built).

Randy Hall, La Can~ada

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Extend the Glendale Freeway south to the Harbor, just south of the 10, to relieve that nightmare through downtown on the Pasadena Freeway.

Dave Arnett, Burbank

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I am a 16-year-old male, and my mother will hardly let me drive anywhere in my little town, so I can pretty much forget about driving on a crowded, smelly, SigAlert infested, hand-gesture wielding Southern California freeway.

David Fingerote, Victorville

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Sure you need a new freeway--right over the end of the Santa Monica Pier.

Harley W. Baczkowski, Twentynine Palms