Bradley’s Plan to Improve Traffic

Mayor Tom Bradley’s 20-point plan to improve traffic is about as helpful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic (Metro, Nov. 29). Nothing in this plan is going to make it easier or faster to get from Hollywood to Santa Monica or downtown to the Valley. Four of the proposals are nothing more than ways to increase revenues. Another three set up committees to study the problem. What is the mystery?

Los Angeles needs a public transportation system that works! But let’s make sure we ban valet parking on city streets! And speed humps to slow traffic on residential streets? The reason residential streets see so much traffic is because the main thoroughfares are too congested.

Stop treating the symptoms and work on the problem. Public service announcements with transportation tips? Satellite centers for city departments? Public funds for emergency taxi rides? It’s all nonsense.

A subway, monorail, cable car or light rail system--pick one--is what’s needed. And as for Councilman Marvin Braude’s “. . . let’s have the courage to fail . . . ,” no, Marvin, let’s have the courage to succeed. Failure is easy.

TIM MEINELSCHMIDT

Los Angeles