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Good evening council members. I have two major issues to discuss. First and most important, there are simply too many traffic accidents occurring at the intersection of Wilshire Ave. and S. Baker St., eventually someone is going to be seriously injured or killed opening up the city for a major lawsuit. We circulated a petition to present to the city council and not a single resident told us "no," all were excited to sign hoping something could be done about this. A neighbor installed a camera and has video he would gladly share showing all the accidents that have occurred. We would like to see either a signal light; or a round -a -bout; or 4 lighted stop signs installed . The second issue is dealing with speedsters endangering residents on S. Baker St., the residents were all on -board with having "speed -bumps" installed. I parked on both Park Ave. and S. Baker St. on different days, at the same time 7:30 to 8:00 a.m, recording traffic. S. Baker gets triple the amount of traffic than Park Ave. yet they have speed bumps and it's a struggle to get them on S. Baker St., why is that? I'm aware of the speed a driver must hit to be considered speeding, yet none of the traffic I saw on Park Ave. went over 20 mph. Another neighbor has video of the traffic on Baker including the speedsters and has offered copies if need be. Circulating the petition opened up a can of worms as many of the residents told us about other traffic problems like Mater Del parents dropping their kids off blocking residents from exiting their driveways refusing to move; On Wilshire the red curbs were extended and they worked for a while but eventually people returned to parking their cars on the red to eat their lunch purchased from the food truck parked on Wilshire, this makes turning left dangerous. I have a lot of suggestions, but with only 3 minutes to speak, I had to cut to the chase. Thank you for your time and attention