Oct. 10, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: Thank you, City Council, for taking more of my money (“Parking will soon cost more in Los Angeles. Here’s what you need to know,” Oct. 6)! I can’t wait to see what you put it toward next.
I’m sure the city is raising meter rates because it plans on providing my fellow Angelenos and me with better and more plentiful services, and not because it’s trying to dig itself out of a hole it created. Some may argue that $14.4 million is not even a scratch at a $1-billion shortfall, but I say: How can you be against it when it’s yet another regressive tax?
Jacob Mahoney, Van Nuys
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To the editor: By making people pay for parking on Sundays, the City Council has abolished the one day of the week that gave motorists a breather. It was a remnant of an easier-going Los Angeles, something to be cherished. The council seems intent on picking the public’s pockets and further traumatizing folks — all to scrape up a paltry $14.4 million against a budget shortfall just shy a cool $1 billion.
Graydon Miller, Los Angeles