Hermosa, Manhattan Beach upgrading downtown security barriers
The late former Hermosa Beach city councilman and civic watchdog Roger Creighton is getting his wish for better protection for pedestrians on the plaza from a runaway vehicle. The Hermosa Beach City Council last week decided to replace the lightweight barriers along Hermosa Avenue with heavy-duty barriers, which will guard Pier Plaza from the sort of runaway vehicle that crashed onto the Manhattan Beach Pier Nov. 1. The bollards along Hermosa Avenue at Pier Plaza will soon be replaced with heavy-duty barriers. Photo by Ed Pilolla. In that incident, the driver of a Cadillac lost his brakes and plowed through a lightweight barrier at the entrance of the Manhattan Beach Pier. No one was seriously hurt, but the accident served as a wake-up call to city officials, who remember that an elderly driver in Santa Monica in 2003 hit the gas instead of brakes and lost control of his Buick LeSabre. The driver plowed into a crowded Farmer’s Market, killing ten people and injuring 63, leading to $21 million in settlements. Creighton, a councilman in the 1980s, wrote to the City Council in May 2005 that a row of heavy-duty barriers “is the only sure way to keep vehicles from running wild through…
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