Transit Village Fight Crosses City Borders

Community councils from across the Westside, fearing even more traffic on the notoriously gridlocked east side of Santa Monica, are banding together against the Bergamot Transit Village and nearby projects.

Leaders from eight Santa Monica neighborhood associations and representatives from nine neighboring communities held a news conference Monday afternoon to call for the end of what they call “piecemeal” planning for a number of developments along Olympic Boulevard, east of Cloverfield.

“We must have good regional planning here. We must have it now,” Diana Gordon, co-chair of Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City, said at the news conference.

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