To the editor: The HLA Measurement is a case of wishful thinking. If you build it, will they come? Not so much. (“HLA Measure Fear Propaganda Ignores What’s Really Scary: The Deadly Streets of Los Angeles,” editorial, February 21)
Drive along Venice Boulevard in West Los Angeles from Culver Boulevard to Inglewood Boulevard, where dedicated bike and bus lanes have opened. You'll see heavier traffic, angry drivers, empty bus lanes, empty bike lanes, and failures.
We don't live in a city where clean, safe buses arrive reliably every five minutes to take you wherever you want to go. We live in a city where buses arrive when they arrive, if they arrive, and transfers are often complicated and poorly timed.
Until local government does something meaningful to provide abundant public transportation that is cost-effective, fast, and gets where people want to go, these unviable highway plans won't work.
All Measure HLA will do is make Los Angeles even more uninhabitable.
Jeanne Damus, Los Angeles
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To the editor: In my opinion, Measure HLA alone is not a viable solution to reducing the number of accidents and deaths on the busy streets and highways of Los Angeles. Reducing the number of lanes on certain roads and installing new bike lanes will only increase driver stress and throw drivers onto alternative routes not normally used by drivers.
I have an idea. Mobilize motorcycle officers to hit the road and catch speeding drivers instead of sitting back using a LIDAR gun.
Then they would also be able to see illegal U-turns, double parking, crosswalk violations, stop signs, red light violations, unsafe lane changes, tailgating, and all other violations. of the traffic code that do not apply.
Charles Singer, Northern Hills
