Earlier today I posted an article about last night’s meeting of Fullerton’s Transportation and Circulation Commission, then pulled it and re-issued it with a new headline and hence a new Web address. I changed the post because the headline was wrong.
Old headline: “Don’t Like the Traffic? Move, Says Commissioner”
New headline: “Don’t Like the Traffic? Move!
Commissioner Duvignau didn’t say that people who don’t like increased traffic in their neighborhoods should move. He said HE is going to move. That seemed to me like a suggestion that other people could do the same, but that was only my interpretation, and it may have been wrong.
Here are Duvignau’s words, in context: “Our city is growing, whether we hate it or we love it. I personally love this city. I’ve been here, I dunno, 15 or 18 years, and I don’t want to move. I want to stay here. But I have to understand that, you know, the city is changing. My kids won’t see the Williams Army Surplus Store that was down the street. You know, it’s a bar now. We have to live with it. I live on Acacia on some low-income housing and Acacia will now be a route… State College will close in the next year — I’m not sure how many of you know that — in order to make it a crossing for the railroads so that we can have better traffic flow. I have to deal with Raymond and State College closing and traffic going down Acacia. I don’t like it, so I’m gonna move. I have that option. I live in an apartment. I understand that, and it’s different. But whatever the outcome here is tonight, our city is changing and we’re gonna have to adjust with it.”
I apologize for any confusion that may have been caused by a post disappearing and reappearing with new Web address, and I apologize if I, however briefly, misrepresented the intent behind Commissioner Duvignau’s words.
–Cindy Cotter
