Not singing their praises

Re “Band’s taping to close street,” April 21

So a good chunk of Hollywood Boulevard was blocked off for almost two days so that some promoters could put on a Depeche Mode concert to promote a new album and a new hotel. The show’s planners laughably claimed that this would bring the “return of Golden Age excitement and lifestyle” to Hollywood.

Hmmm. I’m not sure what “Golden Age” they had in mind, but I doubt it included the bumper-to-bumper traffic that these constant, frivolous street closures in Hollywood cause.

The real culprit here is the City Council, which sees no contradiction between allowing a frenetic pace of development in Hollywood, which is rapidly increasing the population, and handing out permits to close major streets for any and every entertainment-related event.

I hope my fellow Hollywood residents will join me and reward them for their inability to grasp the basics of city planning, and their indifference to the interests of their actual constituents by voting them out of office.

Jenny Skoble

Los Angeles