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

I read your coverage of the Oscar-week street closures (“Barricades Go Up Around the Boulevard as the Academy Awards Approach,” Feb. 27) nodding the whole way through. I have lived four blocks from the Dolby for nine years. Every year I am told the ceremony is a gift to the neighborhood, and every year I spend a week unable to park, turn or sleep through the helicopters. I am glad the industry has its night. I would be gladder if the people who plan it remembered that thousands of us are trying to get to work through the fence they built. — Reynaldo Cachola, Hollywood

Your reporting on the production slowdown keeps quoting studio types who say the work is “coming back.” I am a set electrician. It is not coming back, or not to us. I have worked in this town for nineteen years and last month I took a job hanging drywall to cover my kid’s braces. Nobody in Sacramento or at a studio is thinking about the fifty-year-old grip who trained three generations of them. Thank you for at least printing what the crews are actually living. — Marguerite Okwuosa, East Hollywood

I will join the chorus on the library, since the chorus does not seem to be working. The reading room has now been closed for well over a year. I understand the building needed the retrofit. What I do not understand is why a city this size cannot stand up a proper temporary branch — real hours, real staff, real books — instead of leaving it to volunteers in a borrowed storefront to do the work the city walked away from. Fund the stopgap or finish the building. Preferably both. — Tomasz Wieczorek, Little Armenia

One good thing, since the letters page could use one. Two weeks ago I slid my car into a ditch on a muddy road below one of the trailheads, in the rain, with a flat and no signal. A woman coming down off the trail, soaked through, spent forty minutes changing my tire with me and then followed me down the hill to make sure the spare held. She would not give her name and would not take a cent. I have been grumbling about the trailhead crowds for years. I would like to formally retract some of it. — Bettina Halvorsen, Beachwood