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Letter to the Editor: Bicycle-unfriendly?

May 2nd, 2013 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor

I am a resident of Los Cerritos, and I support the proposed roundabouts in the Los Cerritos neighborhood.
The roundabouts will beautify and enhance the community, especially the “Gateway to Los Cerritos” at Pacific Avenue, 36th Street and Country Club Drive, and will improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists due to the reduced speed of [...]

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Letter to the Editor: What’s in a word?

April 26th, 2013 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor

Transparency. Long Beach likes to toss the word around, but, except for the windows, very little is transparent at City Hall. If you have any doubt that your councilmember wishes it to remain this way, you need look no further than last week’s vote when seven councilmembers (Steve Neal was absent) refused to even second [...]

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Letter to the Editor: A not-so ‘roundabout’ letter

April 26th, 2013 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor

Why is Councilmember James Johnson so adamant that a bicycle path must go through the Los Cerritos neighborhood and absolutely has to include two “roundabouts” and a new traffic signal at Wardlow Road and Pacific Avenue?
He says surveys taken by the City [of Long Beach] show that most people favor all of these so-called “traffic-calming [...]

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Letter to the Editor: Keeping Spam from being a scam

March 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor

Finally, the authorities have decided to break the back of the Jamaican scam artists who have been ripping off Americans for years with the promise of huge wealth for very little effort. I know how compelling it is to be faced with thousands of dollars of promised wealth for just a small deposit for good [...]

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Letter to the Editor: Growing pains?

March 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Letters to the Editor

Long Beach always seems to have a difficult time dealing openly with residents. It often talks of transparency, then makes its actions as opaque as possible when doing something it believes might face opposition.
Take the additional traffic signal proposed for Wardlow Road at Pacific Avenue as part of a new Pacific Avenue Bike Corridor. Residents [...]

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