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# Board of Directors Pico Neighborhood Association Put the city on a diet
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/board-of-directors-pico-neighborhood-association-put-the-city-on-a-diet-editor/
- Published: 2003-06-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:20:34.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

*By Dan Kolhoff Santa Monica*

Santa Monica is slowly moving itself towards a transportation heart attack. The City Council approves every artery-clogging (traffic calming/pedestrian safety) device that the transportation department can think of to slow down cars. Eventually rush hour traffic in the city will cease to flow, sapping the life out of Santa Monica. The citizens of Santa Monica need to take preventative action in order to reduce the artery clogging ways of our city so that there is less fat coming from City Hall. In 2004 let's vote to put Santa Monica on a diet.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 16, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061603.pdf?ref=smdp.com)