Re: Wendy Dager’s April 14 commentary, “Create traffic plan to spare writer more tickets”:

What a whiner. Dager got cited pure and simple. She violated a law that has been on the books for a number of years and that has been publicized many times.

This was not a “ticket trap.” If it was, the school bus would have been planted there to catch drivers violating the law. This is a regular bus stop. When the police set up checks at pedestrians crosswalks having people cross and cite drivers who don’t stop, would she consider that a “ticket trap”?

When drivers are cited for traffic infractions, they usually never repeat that same thing since they are aware of what they did and they don’t want to get cited again and see their insurance rate go up.

“Traffic plans” would be nice. However, it seems better to stop driving every kid in an individual automobile to school and require all kids either take school buses or drop offs should not be allowed any closer than two or three blocks surrounding the schools.

How about some form of a car-pool lane system to drop off kids directly at school, whereas vehicles must have at least three students going to that school in the car to get that close?

It’s not the schools that have created this craziness, it’s the psychology of parents today who believe that, in one of the safest areas in the country, our kids are not safe to either walk to a school bus stop or take a school bus, but must be personally chauffeured.

— Howard R. Weisenfeld, Westlake Village