SAVE VISTA TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS!!!

E-Z Activism

The Bicycle Civil Liberties Union urges you to

WRITE TO THE BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL AND VISTA COLLEGE TO
SAVE VISTA TRANSPORTATION!

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Mayor Tom Bates and City Council 
2180 Milvia St.                   FAX:  (510) 981-6901
Berkeley, CA 94704

Re:  SUPPORT VISTA ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION

Dear Mayor Bates and City Council:

As a student at Vista College, I strongly urge you to allocate the
entire $3.6M in Vista transportation mitigation funds to
Transportation Demand Management programs which will reduce the need
for parking, rather than to subsidize a relatively small number of
parking spaces.

The majority of the Vista community uses alternative transportation to
get to school, amounting to many thousands of trips each week.  At
market rate, the money (equivalent to over 16,000 full-time students'
tuitions) will only buy a small number of parking spaces, which will
have to be subsidized even though a fee is charged.  Existing parking
garages rarely if ever fill up.  The City has a transit-first policy,
yet has not truly implemented the many strategies which will reduce
driving trips to downtown and thereby improve everything about
downtown.

In contrast, the money is more than enough to implement a Class Pass
program, giving free bus passes to Vista students.  Vista is on a
Bicycle Boulevard yet nothing has been done to implement it.  Vista
bike parking is often full.  Many Vista students can't afford a car,
let alone the parking fees.  Vista is very close to BART and the
main AC Transit hub -- our scarce Vista dollars should go towards
helping us get to campus and making the City a better place.

Let's do something for the long-term good and health of Berkeley, by
using Vista transportation funds to make it easier, cheaper and safer
to get to Vista for the long-term, rather than taking up valuable city
space with parking garages.

Sincerely,

CC:

Vista College Administration
Berkeley Transportation Commission, 2118 Milvia St, Suite 300,
   Berkeley, CA 94704, FAX:  (510) 883-6565
Berkeley Ecological and Safe Transportation Coalition (BEST)
   http://www.berkeleybest.org/
Bicycle Civil Liberties Union, http://www.bclu.org/

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