City officials said Monday that Santa Monica’s traffic calming efforts have been an “unparalleled success.”
With 10-and 15-minute waits at local stoplights not uncommon — and the situation clearly worsening — drivers appear to have grown so calm that they sometimes fall asleep at intersections downtown.
“We probably ought to make those tweeters louder,” said one frustrated traffic cop Sunday afternoon, referring to the beeps that signal pedestrians at crosswalks.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 1, 2003. Read the original PDF.