405 Project
Dear sirs: The Rossmoor Community and all our schools in the Los Alamitos Unified School District would be adversely impacted by the considerable increase in traffic if your project should come to fruition.
The Rossmoor community knows that the EIR did not take into consideration the amount of pollution that would rain on our community and particularly our schools, which are close to the 605.
For that reason alone I am againstthe 405 project and would prefer Alternative 4—do nothing! I am particularly incensed by the Alternative 3, which is solely for the “ECONOMIC ELITE” in southern Orange County.
California led the country in freeways. The majority of Californians oppose any attempt to charge for milage traveled.
I have traveled the 91 Freeway and the Fast Track has not made traveling better for the majority of the people who use the 91. Orange County and the OCTA should lead the way toward better and faster public transportation.
Los Angeles has shown us that it can be done and the OCTA should lead the way.
Joyce Bloom
Rossmoor
Sunnews.org poll results
Should people be allowed to stake out concert space in Seal Beach by leaving their belongings behind at the park for an entire day?
Yes—60 percent
No—40 percent
Don’t race to use the term ‘racist’
Racism. Is there a word more misappropriated in 21st century language? Not a day goes by that I don’t hear the word being used (often in political debates, with far-left zealots), and now its being leveled against our fair city.
Racism is egregious, and extremely rare. While many people possess and maintain prejudices, and in some cases bigotry, the term racism should only be applied when it has been determined beyond-a-reasonable-doubt that someone has wronged someone else out of malice for their skin color. This surely isn’t the case, in the Long Beach Transit kerfuffle. It is my understanding that the conflict arose when Long Beach Transit determined to make a bus and route change, affecting some Seal Beach residents. This seems a legitimate concern. That someone may, or may not have used an expression that lead someone else to surmise ill-intent has not been substantiated. We are all brothers and sisters on this globe, who are more alike, than different.
Let’s not jump to conclude that someone opposes my/your viewpoint out of malice. Peace.
Earick Ward
Seal Beach
Kudos
Kudos, Charles Kelly. Your editorial this week (“My Turn: Racism, Seal Beach and Long Beach Transit,” Thursday, July 12) was well stated. Only if the sick twisted idiots who are coming out of the woodwork posting as Seal Beach residents (which I could see is surely possible) on the Internet with sickening racist garbage could only feel the sting of what their words cause others, we’d be better for the wear. Anyways, Mr. Kelly, I appreciated your opinion as a human and not a resident of Seal Beach.
Phillip Fry
