Making things worse.My office is located at the eastern end of the experimental bus lane on Wilshire Boulevard Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named for H. Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining. ("Wilshire Bus Lane Blocked by Opponents Across City Limits," Oct. 25). I have witnessed what I believe to be an abnormal number of accidents as a result of the test lanes. Have the numbers, in fact, gone up? During rush hour, when an auto exits my office building, it must now turn into the second lane from the curb. That lane is usually backed up, leaving the vehicle partially blocking the bus lane until traffic begins to move again. The traffic light cycle on Wilshire at Federal Avenue is well over a minute. Consider the impact if the lane were extended along the entire Wilshire corridor during rush hour. Tenants and visitors to high-rise buildings high-rise building Multistory building taller than the maximum height people are willing to walk up, thus requiring vertical mechanical transportation. The introduction of safe passenger elevators made practical the erection of buildings more than four or five stories tall. will be limited to one car per cycle. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. has said that everyone wins with this program. With all due respect, he also sponsored the ballot measure that forbids the use of transportation sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. revenue in the construction of a subway on Wilshire. As our population grows, the only way to accommodate public transportation on Wilshire will be by subway. As to the cost, the London subway, built in the mid-1860s, is still going strong. Amortize the cost over 200 years and it is no longer so expensive in relation to its benefits. Harold L. Katz Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. |
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