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For the last 10 years, Little Overland has been burdened with a left turn arrow that was surreptitiously put up without notice to our residents one day by the City and the Department of Transportation at the corner of Little Overland and Olympic, allowing an unlimited number of vehicles heading south on Little Overland from the westbound left-turn pocket of Olympic Boulevard to strain the limits of our little residential street.  John E. Fisher, Assistant General Manager in charge of transportation operations, in lieu of Little Overland's request to dismantle the left-turn arrow in its entirety, proposed a "protective" arrow, allowing a reduced number of vehicles in the pocket to make a left hand turn onto Little Overland, followed by a red arrow -- like the one you see westbound at the intersection of Olympic to southbound Sepulveda, or on Pico at Prosser and also on Pico at Manning.  Mr. Fisher rightly believed that the implementation of a green arrow that dialed down the number of vehicles making the left turn, followed by a red arrow would not only alleviate some of the burdens added to Little Overland, but would decrease some of the injuries suffered by drivers making an unprotected left turn onto Little Overland following the green arrow.  Meaning there would not be a "race" to make the left turn once the light turned red with the hope that vehicles heading eastbound on Olympic would not try to "beat the yellow" and collide.

     Unfortunately without the support of our local homeowner's association, the arrow remained unprotected, and on February 25th, there was such an impact that had been the concern of the residents, causing substantial injury to motorists, including two pregnant women.

Thanks to local resident Ira for the photo.