I gather my neighbors to support more housing and better transportation options in my city
Safety won last night!
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First of all: THANK YOU! This result wouldn't have been possible without hundreds of residents taking action for a safer Hopkins Street. Every email, postcard, yard sign, and comment had a huge impact. Most importantly: Berkeley city council voted to approve protected bike lanes on Hopkins last night! The meeting nearly went until 1am with 3 hours of public comment, quite a few from some of the people reading this email right now. If you went to the meeting or participated on zoom, you know that it was not easy or fun but your presence was appreciated by many. If you are represented by councilmembers Rashi Kesarwani, Terry Taplin, Ben Bartlett, Igor Tregub, Cecilia Lunaparra, or Mark Humbert please send them a quick email of appreciation for their YES vote on the item. You can also email mayor Adena Ishii, who kept the meeting moving and showed the crowd some of the postcards we sent her. The fierce opposition is not likely to go away in light of this decision, so bike lane construction is not guaranteed. However, this is definitely a positive development in this saga. Read more on Berkeleyside and stay tuned for when and where our celebration event will occur. |
Safety for ALL on Hopkins
I gather my neighbors to support more housing and better transportation options in my city
Thanks to everyone who has sent in emails, put up a sign, forwarded emails to their friends, helped organize an action, donated to pay for signs, talked to their neighbors and generally showed up for street safety on Hopkins. We are in the home stretch! Hopkins is scheduled for a vote next Tuesday. View the agenda here and read the item here. Hopkins will get a vote at the meeting on July 28 at 6pm Send a quick email to your councilmember today (not sure who your councilmember is? Find out...
TL;DR: Hopkins repaving is coming to Berkeley city council on July 28. But first, a quick update from April 15 Our Hopkins page was updated but here’s a summary: FITES members rejected the “pave Hopkins with pedestrian safety features only” proposal unless it was altered to include protected bike lanes on Hopkins from at least Sutter to Gilman with direction to explore extending the bike lanes further west. Basically, the authors of the original item were told that they needed to add bike...
TL;DR: Send an email to FITES now, comment in person or on Zoom on April 15, fill out a postcard for Hopkins bike lanes If you’re new here: there’s a proposal to repave Hopkins without the approved bike lanes. The first meeting to consider this outrageous move is at FITES (Facilities, Infrastructure, Transportation, Environment & Sustainability, a city council subcommittee) on April 15 at 2pm. No, that is not a good time for a lot of people to attend this meeting but the good news is that you...