To the editor: In 1735, Benjamin Franklin properly mentioned, “An oz. of prevention is price a pound of remedy,” and it nonetheless makes whole sense. Drivers in Los Angeles are extra distracted than ever earlier than.
Whereas looking at their many units, they drive too quick. Sadly, I witness this reckless conduct day by day proper in entrance of my home. I’ve been begging for years for options with none response from the town, swatting me away like an annoying fly.
When sufficient individuals are harm or killed by rushing drivers, the anticipated response is to then set up a site visitors sign or cease indicators to remind folks to easily decelerate. This involved father’s unorthodox strategies appear to come back out of whole frustration and fixed fear for the security of the folks in his neighborhood (“South Bay father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park,” March 26). However the powers that be who make these essential choices ought to bear in mind another phrases of knowledge: Higher protected than sorry. Paperwork is stuffed with purple tape. This father’s solely crime was to care sufficient for his group’s welfare to stop the subsequent headline.
Take into consideration that subsequent time you might be racing by means of an space with youngsters. It might finish a life and damage your individual.
Frances Terrell Lippman, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: I learn with curiosity the article a couple of father taking issues into his personal fingers concerning what he thought was an unsafe intersection close to his residence and a park.
I additionally reside close to an unsafe intersection. I’ve requested on a number of events that Councilmember Adrin Nazarian’s workplace take motion, however I’ve been advised the intersection doesn’t meet the necessities so as to add the signal I requested.
On the intersection close to my residence, my road (a north-south road) doesn’t have a cease signal. The road moving into the other way has the cease. However I’ve pushed by means of that intersection on quite a few events and have virtually gotten into accidents as a result of the east-west site visitors barely slows down, both as a result of they assume the other way has a cease signal or they only don’t care to completely cease.
I typically suppose that somebody should be severely injured or killed earlier than the town will take motion. Why does it have to come back to that?
Ann-Marie Whitman, Studio Metropolis
