Get a Life and Election Concerns

Dear Editor,

Does anyone care what neighborhood groups think? Most people don't, including me. ("Residents Air Concerns Over Proposed College Bond," July 5)

Friends of Sunset Park is just another group of people who have too much free time. All they do is complain about Santa Monica College and the SM Airport, two of the greatest facilities this city has to offer.

You folks really need to get a life.

Jan Keller
Santa Monica

(Re: "Mayor Bloom to Seek Reelection," July 7, 2004)

Letter to Mayor Bloom:

Delighted you have decided to run again Richard, well done. Your record is great and your support of the public school district is much admired.

My biggest concerns as a now 15-year resident who also works in Santa Monica are:

• Homeless 'occupation' of parks at the expense of families.
  
• Traffic, polluting and frustrating. (Vast parking stations somewhere
  like Pico with battery powered rapid transit downtown? Plus electronic
  toll for driving into a "downtown zone" as very successfully implemented
  in two problem areas that I know of, London and Singapore).
  
• Third Street Promenade... by any measure dangerous, (why was the police "station" closed there?) an embarrassment and not a place for teenagers.

Please let me know where you are on these issues.

Best,

Greg Coote
Santa Monica