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I’ve always said, shut down the 405 over the Sepulveda pass and you’ll fix a huge part of west LA’s traffic problem (area bounded by Santa Monica to Hollywood to LAX).

The two lightest days of traffic I have ever seen in LA were Carmageddon in 2011 and the first day of the Skirball fire in 2017. Both because the 405 over the Sepulveda pass was shut down.

How are the (architecturally) conservative Santa Monica building committees going to allow such a unique progressive building to be built? As an architect who has worked on various projects in Santa Monica (as I am sure a few of you could also speak to), I can say that building codes in SM are some of the most restrictive in the LA county region. Its not that I dont like this building per-say, I am just in shock they would allow it.

But if it does pass, then kudos to all that were involved to make it happen

That tumbleweed Santa is one of the creepiest fire hazards I’ve ever seen.

I remember my mother taking me to Hollywood Blvd. in the evening in the late 1950s—pretty much every year—after she came home from work and we would walk from the Broadway at Hollywood and Vine past Lerner’s, Hartfield’s, and points west to do Christmas shopping. The white metal trees were all lit and every single evening Santa would drive down Hollywood in his sleigh. Yes, this really happened.

My 2 bed/2 bath upper on 14th/Idaho in Santa Monica was $1800 when I moved in 2008.

I lived in cute condo in Santa Monica, an apartment with a view in the Hollywood Hills, a loft in NYC and now I own a beautiful mid century home in Van Nuys (Lake Balboa). At this stage in my life and the fact that I have a cute mid century home (that is affordable) and a yard for my dogs (and a pool), hands down I prefer the Valley. I do wish I had more places to walk to (coffee shops, etc.) but I simply get in my car and drive 10 minutes to the blvd. and walk there, no big deal. I don’t have to pay to valet or pay to park for every stop I make and I don’t have to fight tourists and annoying wannabe hipsters with a beard and rolled up jeans. Plus I have been to the best dive bars the valley has to offer.

How about the biggest issue with this proposed tunnel system: you can’t create a private transportation network that is designed to benefit you because you don’t like sitting in traffic with the riffraff.

Elon Musk lives in Bel-Air and works in Hawthorne.. and he most likely travel to DTLA, Santa Monica, the South Bay, Long Beach Airport, and Sherman Oaks/ Van Nuys (for the Van Nuys Airport) quite frequently. Isn’t it funny how this tunnel system map goes to all those places?

More light raill will benefit the public much more than this.

The Valley, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, East LA, Koreatown…. all the same overpopulated, over polluted mess. Not worth $500, let alone $3000.

The only complaints are: This is NOT IN SAWTELLE, this is West LA right next to Santa Monica & the traffic is horrendous on this section of Pico.

YES! What a great idea! An artful (Swiss-designed) gondola would be fantastic. It could depart on the hour. At the summit, visitors would have 50 minutes to walk around a short trail around the sign, with a few iconic spots to take photos, and then board 1 or 2 gondolas to go back down. This would raise considerable revenue too. The views of the city would be great too. This is exactly the big urban moment—where the city is big and inspires you—that LA needs. Can the gondola be closer to the sign? What about the Ford Ampitheater (closer access to all of the tourists wandering around Hollywood Blvd). Also, a hiking trail up and down from the Amphitheater would be great too. All of this access occurs on the back side of the hill to not bother Beachwood Canyon residents. The sign is a treasure and this is an amazing idea to access it and give the city a needed solution to a big piece of our urban pride. Hours would be only dawn to dusk. Do it, Diane!