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Redondo rebuke Dear ER: The League of Women Voters of the Beach Cities opposes the Redondo Beach City Council’s decision to call a special election on Oct.
by Rachel Reeves
City Clerk Eleanor Manzano announced at this week’s Redondo Beach City Council meeting that results from the Mar. 2 municipal election will be tabulated on Friday.
Manzano said her team of 10 people has been working “non-stop” since the election to verify signatures on ballots postmarked by election day.
“We were inundated,” she said of this election, which was conducted entirely by mail because of restrictions designed to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. “Normally we have a lot more ballots by the time the election comes around.”
Just over 5,100 ballots were received before election day. A count of those showed incumbents leading the races for mayor and city attorney, as well as for council members in Districts 1, 2, and 4.
Dear ER:
A traffic circle? Really (“Many a close call on Prospect,” ER Feb. 1, 2021)? As if gridlock isn’t enough of a problem on Prospect Avenue, south of Aviation Boulevard, where the street is only one lane in each direction. Now our out-of-touch city council wants to put a traffic circle in at 10th Street. Speeding traffic is not the problem. It’s not possible to speed down Prospect with all of the stop signs along the way. The problem is stopping at the stop signs. Trying to slow down traffic that is already slow will do nothing but cause a line of cars to back up onto Aviation. The solution is to enforce drivers to stop at the stop signs.The time, money and effort involved in the useless studies, construction and implementation of these so called “traffic calming” measures would be better spent in enforcement of our traffic laws that are already in place via stop signs.