I read on the L.A. Public Works Committee website that Los Angeles is paying $400,000 to negotiate and design a plan to bring trash from across West L.A. to a new trash facility to be built in Culver City on the banks of Ballona Creek.
Is that really what Culver City wants?
Wouldn’t improving the bike path — something like what Glendale is considering (http://chn.ge/2cHpXQH) — be better for Culver City and the Ballona Wetlands than a trash facility? After all, Culver City has a concrete bike path already.
Do residents want to go past nature or in the shadow of a giant trash facility as they ride along that path?
Given how much everyone cared about preserving the Ballona Wetlands years ago, and all of the attention being lavished on improving the L.A. River these days, I am amazed that this is being seriously considered by Culver City.
I am shocked at the silence surrounding the negotiations.
Mr. Jones may be contacted at santamonicaprogressive@yahoo.com
