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# Santa Monica Asking the right questions is key
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-asking-the-right-questions-is-key-editor/
- Published: 2008-02-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T18:38:31.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Downtown, #archive-import

*By L. Ballard Santa Monica Solutions for proposition overload Editor:*

This city’s traffic problem is critical. Arguing over parking problems and one lane or two lanes is simply ignorant. This city has simply become an on-off ramp for the citizens of the surrounding cities. This fact must be made clear to both the City Council and, most importantly, planning.

Who wants more cars in Santa Monica? Why do we want more shoppers Downtown? If the tenants don’t like trees why did they rent on Fourth Street? Why does Santa Monica have an airport when no one here owns a plane? Lets ask better questions before we allow this city to build more.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 22, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022208.pdf?ref=smdp.com)