Readers React: Letters: Gridlock without notice downtown

Re “Dedicated until the end,” April 23

The Times reported on a moving ceremony to appropriately honor fallen LAPD Officer Christopher A. Cortijo.

It did not report on the decision to shut down roads and gridlock rush-hour traffic downtown and elsewhere to hold a freeway motorcade. Is this the legacy that the officer would have wanted? Was it the best way to honor his life and work?

As I sat trapped in traffic, I heard a siren. Could the ambulance reach its target in time?

Dan Silver
Los Angeles

First of all, I would like to send my sympathies to the family of the fallen officer.
The problem is that the city never seems to notify drivers who work downtown that the main streets will be closed.
If authorities can post signs saying “click it or ticket,” why can’t they warn drivers the day before of the need to take alternative routes?

Mike Bowling
Altadena

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