An inexpensive option to makeIron Horse Path safer
I just lately learn the “Iron Horse Corridor Management Program — New & Emerging Mobility Modes in the Corridor Element” by the Iron Horse Hall Administration Program Advisory Committee. It was thrilling to study concerning the potential to reinforce the hall when it comes to facilities, security and ease of commuting.
Sadly, there are challenges to executing the plan, not the least of which is funding, so it is going to be years earlier than these modifications will be made. Brief-term, the present security subject across the elevated site visitors on the path by customers of e-bikes/scooters, pedestrians and cyclists should be addressed. One straightforward, low-cost repair can be to stripe down the center of the path. If the East Bay Regional Park District partnered with the cities alongside the path, it might be accomplished.
If it prevents one wayward bicycle owner, dog-walker or pedestrian from drifting throughout the median and colliding with somebody, it could be effectively price it. Different communities have accomplished so, why not ours?
Jane JoyceDanville
Bay Space schools mustact on pupil housing
Re: “Homeless students can sleep safely in their cars at this California college. Other campuses say no” (Sept. 18).
As Lengthy Seashore Metropolis School develops its Protected Parking Program to serve as much as 30 college students residing of their automobiles in a surveilled lot, we should acknowledge the state and group faculty housing disaster within the Bay Space, which is intensive even past the housing disaster of scholars at UC campuses.
On the subject of “Other campuses say no,” the East Bay’s Peralta Group School system studies housing insecurity impacting upwards of 69% of its pupil inhabitants. As homelessness turns into more and more criminalized all through the USA and California, it’s essential that our campuses, governments and communities help college students at state and group schools instantly.
Although growing everlasting housing infrastructure is important for the Peralta Group School District, college students attending group schools within the East Bay want a secure place to stay now.
Maya EzekielBerkeley
Deschambault will addscience to EBRPD
Our 75 beloved East Bay Regional Parks, together with Tilden, Roberts, Redwood, Chabot and the brand new Level Molate, face huge challenges.
There are 1,500 acres of lifeless timber and water our bodies too poisonous for swimmers and animals. Extreme warmth closed parks this 12 months and final, warmth that endangered guests and workers in addition to plant and animal life. Park fires endanger everybody. New city lands like Level Molate include contamination.
Lynda Deschambault is an environmental scientist operating for the board of the East Bay Regional Park District in Ward 2, which incorporates a lot of Oakland. She has a deep dedication to and lengthy involvement with our parks. Lynda’s expertise consists of land administration, large cleanups and issues of coverage, administration and fairness.
Environmental scientist Lynda will deliver a obligatory and distinctive perspective to the governance of EBRPD. Educated public servants like Lynda will assist information EBRPD into its upcoming second century.
Kirk PetersonOakland
Reelect Devin Murphyto Pinole Metropolis Council
Reelect Devin Murphy. Murphy has introduced unity to our metropolis. He has stored his guarantees and made it a precedence to attach along with his constituents.
Devin believes that listening is extra necessary than speaking. He has put fireplace security first with the reopening of Station 74. He has taken speedy measures to deal with pedestrian security in Previous City. He has helped the small enterprise group get better from the pandemic.
Pinole 4 Truthful Authorities trusts and helps Devin Murphy for reelection to the Pinole Metropolis Council.
Ivette RiccoChair, Pinole 4 Truthful GovernmentPinole
Newest try on Trumpwon’t sway GOP coverage
So there was a second obvious assassination try on former President Trump in as many months with an assault weapon. I doubt, nonetheless, that even it will transfer Republicans to enact an assault weapons ban. Violence of any type by anybody is unacceptable.
Richard AckermanCastro Valley
Be sure to makea plan to vote
We every have mates in our lives who inform us concerning the considerations and frustrations which are part of their lives. Issues like, I can’t get anybody to select up the rubbish on my road, or this electrical energy invoice appears actually unfair, or they’ll’t discover a instructor for my child’s classroom — issues that have an effect on their each day residing.
As a rustic, we face one of the crucial consequential elections of our total lives. And that is the second to ask these mates two easy however necessary questions: Are you registered to vote? Do you will have a plan for voting? As a result of the result of this essential election will matter in a approach not seen in a few years.
Register. Make a plan. Vote. Make your voice heard.
Michele BrynjulsonPleasanton
