To the editor: On the afternoon of November 19, a vigil and memorial service was held for 3 pedestrians who misplaced their lives to site visitors violence alongside a stretch of Venice Boulevard previously six weeks. The occasion was hosted by mother and father and neighbors at Metropolis Language Immersion Constitution College. (“Newsom responded shortly and really publicly to LA freeway hearth, however nonetheless faces scrutiny,” Nov. 21)
We positioned “ghost tires” at three intersections at the very same time that metropolis administration introduced the reopening of the ten Freeway. Councilor Heather Hutt graciously joined us, marched with us and vowed to get a site visitors sign funded and put in on this treacherous stretch of street as quickly as potential.
We now know that street constructing miracles will be carried out when the necessity is pressing, as Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass emphasised relating to the ten Freeway.
Our society is asking this: What might be extra pressing than saving folks’s lives as they stroll of their neighborhoods and ensuring college students are as secure as potential as they stroll to and from faculty?
Brooke Rios, Los Angeles
The creator is the chief director of New Los Angeles Constitution Colleges, which operates the Metropolis Language Immersion Constitution College.
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To the editor: I applaud Caltrans for persevering with to judge the long-term steps wanted to restore the ten Freeway. Extra importantly, the state should stop future disasters.
Relating to the hearth that induced the closure of the freeway, the state was conscious for months that the tenant who rented area below the ten had did not pay lease and that flammable supplies have been saved there.
The state might have instantly sued for unlawful detention for non-payment of lease and for improper storage or nuisance for storage. Each fits might have resulted in an expedited order and cleanup earlier than the hearth.
John Caragozian, Los Angeles
The creator is a lawyer.
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To the editor: It’s unwise, from a nationwide safety standpoint, to place 90% of our transportation {dollars} on the pavement. Caltrans has a bias in opposition to trains.
Jon Hartmann, Los Angeles
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To the editor: If Bass, Newsom, or Vice President Kamala Harris gave LA’s homeless catastrophe half the urgency and focus they gave the ten Freeway closure, perhaps one thing tangible and complete might be achieved to deal with our metropolis’s rising illness.
Till then, we’ll all look forward to the subsequent catastrophe that compromises enterprise moderately than humanity for our elected officers to take motion.
Matthew Flynn, Studio Metropolis