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UC ought to look
elsewhere for housing
Re. “Clashes halt housing undertaking,” Web page A1, Aug. 4:
As a “Individuals’s Park Survivor” shot in each legs that notorious day, Might 15, 1969, I don’t perceive why UC wants to make use of this explicit website, aside from the chancellor’s ego. All of it looks as if an influence transfer. Why, over so a few years, can the college nonetheless not embrace the wonderful piece of labor this park is?
Regardless of the homelessness and messiness, it’s a tribute to the inventive, constructive actions individuals took all these years in the past. Let’s hold this park because the much-needed open area it’s. Save the park. Southside wants open area.
I nonetheless hope that UC, Berkeley residents, and town can get it collectively to make it a significantly better park than it has been to date.
Andus Brandt
Oakland
Weapons station housing
would worsen site visitors
Constructing housing on the Harmony Naval Weapons Station website will carry far more site visitors to the freeways for us. Residents have already got sufficient site visitors; it’s laborious to get to work and residential.
I work in Richmond from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., however on account of site visitors points I want to go away earlier than 6 a.m. to make it to work on time. Coming again residence, it takes me round an hour and a half, which implies I’m away virtually 12 hours from residence and household simply to work 7 1/2 hours. This impacts my psychological well being. I’m stressed not having time to share with my household and never having time for myself to relaxation for the following day.
I’m certain there are lots of people like me. In addition to all that, the setting is getting smaller and smaller. We don’t must destroy it.
Irma Prieto
Pittsburg
Walnut Creek makes
bicyclists too welcome
Oh, the drama. Relating to Clayton Dewberry’s letter (“Walnut Creek doesn’t make cyclists welcome,” Web page A6, July 29), nothing may very well be farther from the reality.
Mountain bikers have nearly taken over the paths round Lime Ridge and related parking at Montecito off Ygnacio Valley Street. Strolling and mountaineering on the paths is like taking your life in your personal fingers. Cyclists pace by at 20-plus mph, coming inside a foot of hikers. One mishap would lead to some critical harm.
Now they need much more of the area dedicated to their “flow-through” trails. There isn’t a enforcement of the principles so they’re usually disregarding. Additionally, the spandex squads of 10-plus riders disregard cease indicators and alerts with impunity. They’ll take up a whole lane of site visitors the place pace limits are greater than 40 mph, impeding site visitors. Additionally, town spent some huge cash not too long ago on placing bollards at many intersections and placing in bicycle lanes and trails to guard bicycle riders.
Randy Domercq
Walnut Creek
County libraries provide
greater than books
Accolades and gratitude to our Contra Costa County libraries and their staffs.
I go to a number of Contra Costa County libraries: El Sobrante, Hercules, El Cerrito, Orinda and San Pablo. Employees in every library is useful, personable {and professional}. I volunteer on the San Pablo Library. I like to see members of my group ready for the doorways to open. At 10 a.m. individuals pour within the doorways. Some individuals go on to the computer systems, some discover a snug chair, some carry their kids and search for books, some want to make use of the restrooms.
Our libraries provide far more than books, films and computer systems. Additionally they provide applications for literacy, kids and households. Our libraries provide a secure, clear haven for a lot of who want simply that.
Thanks, Contra Costa County libraries.
Julie Haselden
El Sobrante
Invoice would make
corporations reveal emissions
The state Meeting should go SB 260, the Local weather Company Accountability Act.
