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 watching their many gadgets, they drive too quick. Sadly, I witness this reckless habits day by day proper in entrance of my home. I’ve been begging for years for options with none response from town, swatting me away like an annoying fly.
When sufficient individuals are harm or killed by dashing drivers, the anticipated response is to then set up a 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 protection of the folks in his neighborhood (“South Bay father arrested after repainting crosswalk, including cease indicators close to youngsters’s park,” March 26). However the powers that be who make these vital choices ought to bear in mind another phrases of knowledge: Higher secure than sorry. Paperwork is stuffed with purple tape. This father’s solely crime was to care sufficient for his neighborhood’s welfare to forestall the following headline.
Take into consideration that subsequent time you might be racing via an space with youngsters. It may finish a life and spoil your personal.
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 arms concerning what he thought was an unsafe intersection close to his residence and a park.
I additionally dwell 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 instructed 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 stepping into the other way has the cease. However I’ve pushed via that intersection on quite a few events and have nearly gotten into accidents as a result of the east-west visitors barely slows down, both as a result of they assume the other way has a cease signal or they simply don’t care to completely cease.
I usually suppose that somebody must be severely injured or killed earlier than town will take motion. Why does it have to come back to that?
Ann-Marie Whitman, Studio Metropolis
