La Jolla should be more careful about what it welcomes
ittedly, I am in the crabby old great-grandmother category, but I hate the new “Welcome to La Jolla” sign (“Ribbon is cut on new ‘welcome’ sign,” March 13, La Jolla Light).
It is ugly industrial-grade metal and in cursive writing, which a considerable chunk of the population can neither write nor read, and it s the Rotary clubs because “they paid.”
It welcomes the hundreds of thousands of people (read cars) that invade our formerly quieter, less crowded town. Who welcomes the air pollution those cars cause?
No one of sane brain can call La Jolla a “village” now, but there used to be hope for less trash on the beaches and streets and fewer bumper-to-bumper messes on Torrey Pines Road.
Welcome? I don’t think so.
Althea Brimm
San Diego’s pothole repairs aren’t holding up
I believe it is time for the city of San Diego to change whom they buy the product they fill potholes from, as it appears it dissolves in the rain.
I have a friend here from Oregon and she was visiting not long ago when potholes were being filled. We went for a drive and she was shocked at how many potholes there were and just total street destruction. In Oregon, they do a repair and it lasts for many years, as it does in Pennsylvania, where another friend is from.
Whatever San Diego is using is obviously not working if the rain can wash it out. Perhaps that is the idea, but it’s not working for us whose cars are taking a beating.
Melinda Merryweather
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