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# Letter: Traffic and overdevelopment are making Santa Monica unlivable
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/080208-story/
- Published: 2008-08-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:29:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

p.m., exit this place and get on Colorado Avenue. The traffic is just atrocious. You just can’t exist with it, you can’t go anywhere. So if something isn’t done to stop the building, and something to rectify the traffic problem, we’re just not going to be able to live in Santa Monica. So I think people should vote to stop building all the high rises, and so on and so forth, in Santa Monica.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 2, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080208.pdf?ref=smdp.com)