Letters to the Editor: Eric Garcetti's goal to eliminate traffic deaths by 2025 contrasts with what actually happened — deaths went up — and showed his leadership style. (via latimesopinion)
In 2015, then-Mayor Eric Garcetti pledged to eliminate traffic deaths in Los Angeles by 2025. After gaining allies and boosters from left-leaning health and traffic safety groups, he stood by and watched the death count increase year after year.
He seemed to ignore pleas from families dealing with the horror of their loved ones being crushed or catapulted by irresponsible drivers — drivers encouraged by L.A. street designs that favor speed over safety and offer little to those outside vehicles.Yet when answering the question, “How will he be judged?,” The Times’ look at Garcetti’s legacy never mentioned these lives that he pledged to save.
Garcetti has been the most hands-on, accessible mayor in my 50 years of voting in Los Angeles. He showed compassion, listened to people and was responsible. I had my picture taken with him in the Rose Garden at Exposition Park outside the nearby King Tut exhibit. He was with his family. We talked as if we were old friends.
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