Give us our adsupported shade

Re “More promises of shaded bus stops? Wait continues,” Sept. 13

I have stood in the unshaded heat at too many bus stops in the Los Angeles area and welcome more covered bus shelters, even with digital signs paid for by advertising fees. These advertising fees are like taxes that run governments, including the city of Los Angeles, which needs many covered bus stops.

The small digital signs proposed for covered bus stops are nothing like the large digital billboards that hang over the major boulevards in the city of Inglewood.

I also have a car and drive. When driving through Inglewood, I have approached and driven under, and read, these large digital billboards while they were on display.

While passing the billboards, I have not been in a crash, nor have there been mass vehicle accidents around me.

Matthew Hetz Los Angeles

Your article made only one mention of someone carrying an umbrella to fend off the heat, and no one in the accompanying photo was utilizing one.

Umbrellas aren’t limited to keeping one dry during the rainy season. A little common sense could go a long way here.

Don Kennard

Fontana