Surface
Street Improvements will not fix
Glendale Freeway Gap in Echo Park:
The Benefits of Finishing the Glendale Freeway
(Published
in the Los Angeles Times)
All of the solutions
offered will do little to really solve the traffic
problems on Glendale Blvd. There is a de-facto
freeway running through Echo Park because the freeway
proposed was never built. Although extending
the freeway all the way west through Beverly Hills
may be impractical at this point, why not extend the
freeway just down to the Hollywood Freeway between
Rampart and Alvarado?
Blocking construction
of a freeway, just because you do not want it in your
neighborhood, does not stop the traffic. It
just moves the traffic to the surface streets,
destroying the very neighborhood the residents were
trying to save.
James
Johnson
West Hollywood
