Re: your March 24 Pa Ventura item, “To Ventura”:

This is the second time The Star has called for the opening of the upper two floors of the parking garage at the foot of California Street. Earlier, an editorial suggested running a bus up California Street from the parking garage.

Apparently whoever is writing these articles hasn't been in town very long. The bus service was tried before, when the Ventura County Courthouse and county government headquarters were located where the present City Hall is located. The bus driver spent weeks and months driving an empty bus up and down California Street. Finally, the service was stopped because no one was using the service.

The theory was that county employees would park in the garage and use the bus service to go to their jobs up the hill. Wrong. It never happened. For all practical purposes, no one ever used the service. In fact, at that time, The Star was downtown, and its employees could have parked in the garage and used the bus service. They didn't.

— Charles E. Voigtsberger, Ventura