Measure A Sparks Debate Over Growth and County’s Future
- Share via
Measure A and other no-growth initiatives are not the answer to reducing traffic. By two simple actions the state could cut the number of vehicles on the streets and freeways by about 20% almost over night.
Enforce the mandatory Liability Insurance Law. I am sure this can be done by some computer-match of registrations against proof of coverage.
Start a system of annual safety inspections of all vehicles. Some states even require them every six months.
Either one of these actions would probably eliminate a surprising number of vehicles from the road and it would be the most dangerous segment of traffic.
Time to remember that driving is a privilege and not a right.
SCOTT BRAKE
Irvine
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
