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# Not all aboard plan to free up buses
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/not-all-aboard-plan-to-free-up-buses/
- Published: 2005-02-26T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:10:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

This past week, Q-line asked: Would you support closing a lane on each side of Wilshire Blvd. for buses only?

Here are your responses: ✆ “Hell no. Sounds like another boondoggle plan by our so-called traffic commerce. The buses are not the problem. I say, hell no.” ✆ “Closing off a lane on Wilshire would just mess up traffic worse than it already is, but considering the Santa Monica City Council hired an idiot to do traffic engineering, it’s probably just what they want.” ✆ “I think it would be a wonderful idea to have a bus lane on Wilshire Boulevard. It’ll reduce the congestion and the bad air and all those other rotten things in this lovely town. So I think it’s an excellent idea, then maybe more people can use the bus.” ✆ “I don’t support exclusive use of the bus lane on Wilshire Boulevard, north and south. I would support maybe one side, having one direction, but not both sides. Wilshire is too busy a street and too small a street to do that to. If they want to, they should do that on Olympic, which has more lanes to deal with, and make it more efficient and effective that way.” ✆ “Well, they’ve messed up all the other streets in Santa Monica so traffic is a complete mess, why should Wilshire Boulevard be left out? Let’s get everybody in a traffic jam on all the streets of Santa Monica.” ✆ “Didn’t we learn anything from the permanent state of congestion caused by the bus lanes on Broadway and Santa Monica? Zev Yaroslavsky is pathetic. He is responsible for killing the subway and now he wants to clog Wilshire with bus lanes. Shame on him.” ✆ “Bus lanes and car pool lanes all are social engineering. Maybe if they tried social engineering to stop subsidizing irresponsible and breeding people, dropping litters of human spawn, maybe we would-n’t need all these other social engineering projects.” ✆ “Yes, I strongly support it. It’s time the auto take a backseat to mass transportation.” ✆ “I’m opposed to it for a various reasons. If you want to get some good reasons, there are a group of people that have tried that near Bundy and Wilshire... and they have a lot of signs that say they don’t like it there. I think it made too much congestion. So, I’m against putting a special bus line for Wilshire Boulevard.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 26, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022605.pdf?ref=smdp.com)