PUBLIC FORUM CONSTRUCTION, CONGESTION.On Monday the news is freeway congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and then on Wednesday the news is about relief of congestion when construction ends. So what? It's obvious that congestion causes construction and in due course construction causes congestion. To relieve freeway congestion simply stop all construction. If Caltrans doesn't agree with my thesis then they should investigate why sections of the 101 Freeway showed an unexplained drop in congestion. Was it lack of construction or was it something that could be applied to all freeways? The lowered congestion deserves more than a flippant flip·pant adj. 1. Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert. 2. Archaic Talkative; voluble. [Probably from flip. ``maybe people changed jobs.'' A scientific approach to traffic control could save billions of dollars. - Douglas C. Kubler Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Coincidence Strange, isn't it? Our elected officials never met a land development they didn't like (or owe) and traffic continues to increase. Who'da thunk In a PC, to execute the instructions required to switch between segmented addressing of memory and flat addressing. A thunk typically occurs when a 16-bit application is running in a 32-bit address space, and its 16-bit segmented address must be converted into a full 32-bit flat address. ? - Patrick Weir Chatsworth Holiday heads-up The men and women of the Valley Traffic Division of the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. wish all Valley residents and visitors ``Happy Holidays.'' We care about you, but we really don't want to meet you ... for a citation, a trip to the hospital, or a pair of handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. . Unfortunately, many of you won't believe us, and we will indeed meet somewhere in the street. The Valley is having a much safer year for traffic collisions than we have in the past few years. But statistics do not tell the story of the agony and suffering for loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl and friends in the wake of the 63 fatal collisions we have investigated on the streets of the Valley so far this year. Please do not become another statistic. We are focused on speeding, pedestrian safety, unsafe left turns, running red lights, buckling seat belts and child restraints, and, as always, driving under the influence. Please do your part. Be safe. Don't meet us by accident. - Capt. Greg Meyer LAPD Valley Traffic Division Not the work schedule Your Dec. 11 editorial of the failure of the compressed work schedule for LAPD officers was way off the mark. The compressed work schedule is not to blame for the increase in crime. What you fail to recognize is that the federal consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. guidelines also went into effect at about the same time as the new work schedule. That decree, along with the dictatorship of - thankfully former - Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. , has had more of an effect on the decrease in arrests and response times than any other factor. My co-workers and I love nothing better than putting criminals in jail. But we need to know that the department and the citizens stand behind us. We are now hopeful that Chief William Bratton, already becoming very popular among us, will lessen the stresses placed on us both by outside forces and those within. - Jim Parker LAPD officer Hollywood area Ilegal food vendors While director of Los Angeles County Public Health Jonathan E. Fielding claims that Los Angeles County is fully prepared for a bioterrorism attack (``County's preparedness,'' Your Opinions, Dec. 8), the county isn't doing much to prevent it. In a letter I received in October from Fielding, he states that occasional sweeps are conducted against illegal food vendors. But since the health department does not have a proactive program to control the sale of uninspected food from mobile carts, and the LAPD does not proactively enforce the law against illegal vending, it is only a matter of time before someone smart enough to learn to fly an airliner into a high-rise is smart enough to masquerade as an illegal vendor and disseminate anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis or some other killer to thousands of people in Los Angeles County. - Hal Netkin Van Nuys The tree is different I went to see ``Old Glory,'' the truly magnificent Pico Canyon oak tree, today. This tree is different than the others, many of which have been saved. It can't be transplanted. It has been following God's plan for four hundred years Four Hundred Years was a melodic screamo band from Richmond, VA. Although they were only together for just over two years, the band produced two full-length releases and a compilation of singles on Lovitt Records. . Do you really think your plans are more important than God's? Think outside the bottom line. Your grandchildren should see a 400-year- old tree in their town. A successful and sustainable community is rich in character and history and that tree has both. Does all of Santa Clarita have to look like it was made yesterday? - Robin Supak Canyon Country Solomon solution I have a solution to end any tree-sitting activity. This will end the media circus and save taxpayers a bundle. Just under the bark of the tree between the xylem xylem (zī`ləm): see stem; wood. xylem Part of a plant's vascular system that conveys water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant and furnishes mechanical support. and phloem phloem (flō`ĕm): see bark; stem. phloem or bast Plant tissues that conduct foods made in the leaves to all other parts of the plant. layers is the cambium cambium (kăm`bēəm), thin layer of generative tissue lying between the bark and the wood of a stem, most active in woody plants. The cambium produces new layers of phloem on the outside and of xylem (wood) on the inside, thus increasing layer. Once this layer has been damaged the tree will be unable to transfer water and nutrients from the roots up into the canopy. You simply get a chain saw and make a small cut around the entire circumference of the tree. The protester can then either come down or have a front row seat watching the leaves fall off as the tree slowly dies. - Matthew Schaaf Granada Hills Practical proposal Why waste all that money moving an old oak tree? These gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. pieces of wood are not only messy, but they attract noisy woodpeckers and annoying squirrels. We should not let these awful things impede the wonderful modern progress our city is attaining in leveling all these rural eyesores. Besides, the council really needs the tax revenue. I propose we use the money more practically. Why not buy some rubber oak trees, and plant them along the freeways in the Newhall Pass? They would then provide some nice scenery and lovely shade for us motorists who will be stuck there daily in a dead-stopped gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. . - Gregg Harkness Canyon Country Drum beat for war As a voter for 50-plus years, I'm often frustrated by Democrats, but even more amazed at Republicans. Their views once ranged from moderate to extremely conservative. Now I find George Bush and many Republicans bellicose bel·li·cose adj. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious. See Synonyms at belligerent. [Middle English, from Latin bellic , warmongering war·mon·ger n. One who advocates or attempts to stir up war. war  mon and braggart about being the ``most powerful and greatest nation on Earth'' while strenuously fighting actions to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, address our crisis in health care, drugs for seniors, slow world population growth, slow the growing U.S. poverty and polarization between super-rich and working poor, etc. Even former concerns about U.S. fiscal health seem to be lost in the accelerating drum beating for war. It is transparently manipulative and hypocritical. - Kenneth McClain North Hills Hang 'em A word about the CEOs and others who have stolen money from investors. In the Old West, if you stole a single horse you were hung from the nearest tree. Why? Because a horse was necessary for survival. How many millions of horses were stolen from the average American worker who needs them for their survival? These horse thieves will never be caught and are laughing their way to the Bahamas. We will never get our savings back, but I for one would like to see some of them hang from the flagpole of the nearest brokerage firm. - Robert Murphy Santa Clarita School lottery money Who can tell us how and for what the lottery funds are used. The lottery Web page reports nearly $800 million a year returned to the schools, some of which is mandated for instructional materials. What about the rest? Who decides what it is to be spent on? - Max J. Kopp Chatsworth |
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