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Take Action ASAP for April 15 vote on Hopkins
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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 can still get involved by sending an email to the members of FITES. The deadline to get emails into the packet is Tuesday at noon, so we don't have a lot of time to take action. Hopkins Repaving at FITES Take Action Now:
Take Action on April 15:
Accommodation for students who can’t attend a 2pm meetingIf you know a student who would like to participate but can’t get out of school, they or a parent can email a statement to be read aloud at the meeting. Students can send written statements or short videos (1 minute). Make sure to say that you are a K-12 student in the email. Snail Mail for Bike LanesCome fill out a postcard to send to your councilmember or the mayor! Don’t worry about postage, we have it handled. We’ll be sending them between now and the council meeting about Hopkins repaving (date TBD) so stay tuned for opportunities to fill yours out, here are the first three: 1. North Berkeley Now! Second Sunday 2. Car-Free Happy Hour 3. BUSD Climate Fair - Safe Routes to Schools table Reply to this email if you, your organization, or business would like to host a postcard-filling-out party! |
Safety for ALL on Hopkins
I gather my neighbors to support more housing and better transportation options in my city
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...
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...