BARRET H. WETHERBY
La Crescenta
Sleep may be the price of tunnel
Regarding “Testing begins for proposed 710 tunnel,” Thursday:
I live four blocks above Foothill Boulevard near Pennsylvania Avenue. During the summer, I like to have our windows open. Because of the freeway, it is so noisy now that we can’t sleep with the windows open. Therefore, I am totally against the Long Beach (710) Freeway tunnel, which will add more trucks and cars to the Foothill (210) Freeway, making it noisier and more dangerous.
DORIS MINER
La Crescenta
The price of dinner has gone up in city
Regarding “Downtown is no walk in the park,” Mailbag, Thursday:
The city of Glendale “greedheads” have shot themselves and the Glendale business community in the foot with their onerous new parking meter hours.
What can they possibly be thinking? Are the city’s bureaucrats so myopic that they don’t know the economy is in a tailspin and everyone is cutting back on discretionary spending? Such as dining out?
Case in point, I’ve been a “regular” at Damon’s since before it moved to the “new” Brand Boulevard location. I’ve always parked on Brand with no meters or in the lot behind where it was free parking after 6 p.m. Not anymore. Now I have to “pay to play” at Damon’s, at Clancy’s, or just about any other restaurant or business in Glendale.
They say you “vote with your dollars.” I’ve chosen to limit my “vote” to the restaurateurs and businesses here in La Cañada, where our “city fathers” have the common sense not to drive patrons away with burdensome parking fees.
TRENT D. SANDERS
La Cañada Flintridge
Just how much do city officials get?
