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Article: One-way could be wrong way: plan to revamp Pico, Olympic boulevards draws fire.(TRAFFIC)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 7, 2007
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A proposal to turn Olympic and Pico boulevards into mostly one-way streets is generating resistance from businesses along the 14-mile corridor from downtown to the ocean--especially in Koreatown where 500 business owners have joined in opposition.
Although Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky put forward the radical plan as a relatively cheap and fast way to ease traffic congestion on the gridlocked Westside, many business owners fear that access for customers would be eliminated and changing traffic patterns would steer others away.
The opposition is most intense in Koreatown, where business owners fear the community's retail center along ...