Is one-way the right way?
Re “Pico-Olympic plan revived,” Feb. 15
By ordering transportation officials to implement a plan that will never work, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will turn once-quiet neighborhoods into mini-freeways. Those who live here will see a significant decrease in the quality of life and in home prices. Our once bucolic, tree-lined streets filled with historic homes will have parking districts disbanded and safety put at risk, despite much opposition to this plan.
The plan to make Pico and Olympic mostly one-way streets and eliminate parking along those corridors has been opposed by homeowner groups along the way. Only L.A. City Councilmen Bill Rosendahl and Herb Wesson had the guts to stand up to the mayor. The plan is flawed because anyone with an IQ higher than a rutabaga knows what happens when traffic corridors, be they freeways or surface streets, increase capacity -- improvement is nullified.
Terry Snyder
Los Angeles
The mayor’s new plan on Olympic will end at Fairfax Avenue as a “nod to Wesson”? I sure hope this particular decision is based on a sensible traffic estimate because that is exactly where San Vicente, Olympic and Fairfax crisscross.
Right now, this triple intersection is a total nightmare at rush hour, and I only hope the mayor’s remapping of it has taken San Vicente into account. And if not, please make sure you don’t make a bad situation worse.
Esteban Ramirez
Los Angeles