Unprotected Bus Benches
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The bus bench incident in North Hollywood [Feb. 23] was entirely preventable (“Man’s Leg Severed When Truck Hits Bus Bench,” Feb. 24).
My aunt and two other women died as they sat on a bus bench in Miami Beach some 15 years ago. I have written, then and several times since then, to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and other transit authorities to move bus benches well back from the curb and, where that was not feasible, to place a concrete barrier in front of the bench to prevent a vehicle from jumping the curb. [In 1997] a boy was killed in [Granada Hills] in a similar incident. There is no reason why bus benches need to be so close to the curb--and unprotected as well.
SOL TAYLOR, Sherman Oaks
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