it is fiscally responsible as the financial savings realized by the
use of the new lights is significant.
While the new signals represent "change" from days of old, I
believe it is change for the better. The new lights save energy, save
money, and are, in many people's opinion, brighter, which may reap
ancillary benefits of reducing traffic accidents. Who knows?
While those of us who drive have noticed a "new" green, our kids
can still enjoy a good old fashioned game of "red light, green light"
and rest assured that this is still the national and international
standard.
MARK LEWIS
Registered civil and
traffic engineer
Fountain Valley City Engineer
Laguna Beach
It's time for gay union announcements
Gay union announcements. It's about time. My congratulations to
the editors and management of the New York Times for their recent
policy decision to include gay union "celebrations" in the paper,
where such announcements belong, right alongside traditional union
announcements.
I would be extremely pleased to learn that the Coastline Pilot and
its parent, the Los Angeles Times, adopted a similar policy.
The decision, which has apparently become an issue for those who
cannot accept that gay people have a valid place in society worthy of
respect, is to me a perfect example of the kind of equal rights and
treatment that gays are fighting for.
Clearly, the new policy grants equal treatment to a major event in
the lives of gay couples, not special or superior treatment as is so
often the false accusation of detractors to the "gay cause."
JAMES DORF
Laguna Beach
