Pacific Palisades gets no traffic-relief love

Remember those $6 million in traffic upgrades slated for the Westside? Well, Pacific Palisades has found out it's not getting any of that money. The Palisadian-Post reports that some are not happy about it:

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council approved a nearly $6-million package of left-turn arrows and traffic-signal upgrades that promises congestion relief at 361 intersections on the Westside. But despite local experiences of mind-numbing waits at jam-packed intersections, none in Pacific Palisades will benefit. Officials at the L.A. Department of Transportation (LADOT) blame the lack of change on the community's Specific Plan, part of the municipal code that regulates commercial development in the Palisades' four commercial zones. The Pacific Palisades Commercial Village and Neighborhoods Specific Plan does not collect fees to address the 'cumulative impact' of additional traffic created by new development, says Jay Kim, a senior transportation engineer at LADOT.

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[Dan W.]

Pacific Palisades and Westwood are two of the few neighborhoods left that have not formed a Neighborhood Council to lobby on their behalf, perhaps because they are so affluent they don't feel the need to lobby the city on its behalf.

Neighborhood Councils are showing increasing strength and it is time for these two neighborhoods to form Councils.

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

[Shoot low; she's riding a Shetland.]

"reports that SOME are not happy about that." Conversely, SOME others must be happy about that. What kind of reporting is this? Says nothing!