{"id":362897,"date":"2026-06-16T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362897\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:49:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-our-sidewalks-need-fixing-but-ideally-not-at-the-expense-of-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362897\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Our sidewalks need fixing, but ideally not at the expense of the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I agree with columnist Steve Lopez that our parks, homelessness, trash, blight and sidewalks are in great need of attention (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-13\/from-south-l-a-s-erupting-sidewalks-5-questions-for-bass-raman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFrom the scene of South L.A.\u2019s erupting sidewalks, 5 questions for Bass and Raman,\u201d<\/a> June 13). I despair that so much money that could\u2019ve gone to repairing our sidewalks has instead gone to payouts to residents who\u2019ve injured themselves on them.<\/p>\n<p>My concern is that the repairs to sidewalks will include the removal of large old trees, like the one at 71st Street and 11th Avenue, that provide much-needed shade and lovely ambience to neighborhoods. On my street, there is a very large tree that has upended a sidewalk. I have not reported it, as I fear the removal of this magnificent tree that adds so much to my street.<\/p>\n<p>Professional arborists know how to save the trees and repair the sidewalks. Is there a place in the budget for dozens of arborists? Money well spent, in my view. More trees for L.A. gets my vote.<\/p>\n<p>Kay Camphuis, Los Feliz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I agree with columnist Steve Lopez that our parks, homelessness, trash, blight and sidewalks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147482,49109,2072,13989,1493,48,52,51,147484,1838,47,50,49,24544,146579,147483,8851,61000,6877,4796,13795],"class_list":["post-362897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-71st-street","tag-blight","tag-editor","tag-expense","tag-homelessness","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-large-old-tree","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-more-tree","tag-much-money","tag-professional-arborist","tag-removal","tag-sidewalk","tag-south-l-a","tag-trash","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}