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# Letters: Residents lament bad traffic, rental garages
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letters-residents-lament-bad-traffic-rental-garages/
- Published: 2016-07-15T13:11:52.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:47:10.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, apartments, Big Blue Bus, broadway, j.r. smith, letters to the editor, mary herring, Santa Monica, santa monica california, santa monica daily press, santa monica landlords, traffic, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:39

Editor:

I have lived in Santa Monica for 30 years, and I never saw so much traffic at Broadway as I do now. The train is only bringing more people. And LA ride Big Blue Bus can't get you for walkers and wheelchairs? The place is mess. You don't even want to go out.

**J.R. Smith**  
*Santa Monica*

**Landlord practices questioned**

Editor:

Why is everyone going along with the awfully high rent and the landlords renting out the garages that go along with the house or apartment? Making people park blocks away from where they live. Do you think that is right? I certainly don't. Don't you think it is time to do something about it? That garage goes with the apartment or house. The landlords are being allowed to make an awful lot of money — think about it?

**Mary Herring**  
*Santa Monica*