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# Letter: Council's traffic calming favors cars over bicyclists and pedestrians
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/071803-story-20030718-9/
- Published: 2003-07-18T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:34:23.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Promenade, #archive-import

*By Andrew Kay Liberman* was about to shop, I am reminded of the council’s “traffic calming” transportation renovations.

We bicyclists have known the danger of auto intimidation for a long time since the council “improved” the streets by eliminating bicycle lanes, and that in Santa Monica it’s “car uber alles” with the parking lots and the enhanced streets. And take a look at Wilshire, where the council is up to the same there, aiding the cars at the expense of the environment and the people.

Isn’t it time we further closed off auto traffic to the Promenade area and returned the sidewalks and streets to people, bicyclists and nature instead of to what Ralph Nader correctly calls the four-wheeled, steel, internal combustion engine?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 18, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071803.pdf?ref=smdp.com)