Why this web site?
Friday March 21, 2003, my mother and I watched in total disbelief as two Culver City Police Motorcycle Officers wrote tickets in a tag team fashion! The traffic light was out at the corner of Elenda and Culver Blvd. in Culver City. When we asked the officer why him and his partner was not directing traffic, his response shocked us to the core.
"It’s not my job", was his response!
I finished taking my mother on errands (she doesn't drive anymore) and returned to the intersection with a camera.
The Police had abandoned the intersection. I guess they had written enough tickets!
The nearby schools had let out for the day. I watched in disbelief as kids tried to cross Culver Blvd.without working traffic lights or police supervision. Police and Parking Enforcement drove thorough the intersection, but no one stopped to direct traffic. I photographed and videotaped the intersection for over 2 hours.
On Monday March 24, 2003 I took an edited copy of this video to the Culver City Council meeting. Upon viewing the video, the Council made no Indication they thought the policy needed to be changed!
Even after hearing from my mother after the meeting (She had been permanently injured in the 1980’s when a faulty traffic light in another town was green in all directions). The current Culver City Council refused to change this absurd policy.
One year later on March 22, 2004, I went before the Council again. I told them it had been over a year since kids had ran for their lives trying to cross this potentially DEADLY intersection that the Culver City Police had abandoned for the day! I told them it had been over a year since Culver City made money from the tickets written under this dangerous policy. The response from the Council... NOTHING!
Mayor Corlin gave me a wrap it up hand signal then the Mayor called the next speakers name.
They had over a year to change the dangerously flawed policy! How many years has this potentially FATAL policy been in place? How many lives have been endangered because of the Council's inaction?
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