HOLLYWOOD — The following letters respond to recent reporting in The Times. They have been edited for length and clarity.

Regarding your reporting on the skate park being built under the 101: my son is twelve and has been asking me since summer when it opens. I no longer have an answer, because the fence has said “coming soon” for so long the words have lost their meaning. I understand freeway underpasses are complicated to build on. I understand permits. What I do not understand is why we announce a thing before we can finish it, so that a kid marks a calendar the city has no intention of keeping. Pour the concrete or take down the sign. — Bernadette Kowalczyk, East Hollywood

Your piece on the library retrofit going over budget (“Hollywood Library Retrofit Runs Over Budget,” Oct. 15) was fair, and I still finished it angry. That reading room has been closed for a year. I did my citizenship-test studying at those tables. My neighbor’s daughter did her college applications there. “Next year” is not a plan; it is a shrug with a date attached. Whoever opened that ceiling and found the surprises should have opened it in 2019, when the closure was first floated. — Anselm Trapani, Little Armenia

I would like to lodge a seasonal complaint on behalf of everyone who actually lives near the Boulevard. For three weeks in December our neighborhood becomes a parking lot for the entire county. I have circled my own block for twenty minutes with a trunk full of groceries while visitors idle in the red zones taking photographs. I do not begrudge anyone the lights. I begrudge them my driveway. A little enforcement would go a long way, and would pay for itself by Tuesday. — Guadalupe Serrano, Whitley Heights

Amid the usual grievances, a small good thing. Two weeks ago my car died on Franklin in the rain, and before I could even get the hood up, a man from the tire shop on the corner was out there with a jump box, waving off the twenty I tried to hand him. I did not get his name. I have lived here eleven years and been told a hundred times that the neighborhood has gone cold. It has not. It was standing in the rain, helping a stranger, and refusing to be paid for it. Print that next to the parking letters, please. — Delia Fontecchio, Franklin Village