Traffic fixes are out of sync

Our wonderful city of Calabasas traffic department, headed by Mr. Robert Yalda, has done it again. The traffic lights along Calabasas Road from Park Granada to Park Calabasas have been reprogrammed sometime within the last few months and as usual it makes no sense at all.

If you are heading north on Park Granada and arrive at the signal at Calabasas Road, you can wait almost two minutes before it becomes green again to proceed straight or make a left hand turn. While I am waiting for almost two minutes at around 7 a.m. for a green light, there is very little or no cross traffic for the extended green light which is for the eastwest traffic on Calabasas Road.

After you finally get a green light to go west on Calabasas Road, you then get another red light at Commons Way. You are again waiting for non-existent traffic coming out of the Commons at 7 a.m. Then you hit the last red light at the Civic Center Drive for more nonexistent traffic. My usual two- to three-minute drive is now five to six minutes while I idle at the red lights and waste gas and put out smog.

It seems most of our traffic "improvements" have been for non-resident commuting through our city, rather than for the residents of Calabasas driving within our city. The new signal at Mulholland and Old Topanga has done nothing to improve traffic and has just made a nice quaint intersection very, very ugly. Then you get to our infamous roundabouts on our residential streets. I have seen speeders pass cars on the opposite sides of the roundabout and seen many near collisions.

City Council, it's time for a change. Brad Wolfe Calabasas