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UC ought to look
elsewhere for housing
Re. “Clashes halt housing venture,” 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 like 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 artistic, optimistic 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 the town can get it collectively to make it a a lot better park than it has been to date.
Andus Brandt
Oakland
Weapons station housing
would worsen visitors
Constructing housing on the Harmony Naval Weapons Station website will carry way more visitors to the freeways for us. Residents have already got sufficient visitors; it’s arduous to get to work and residential.
I work in Richmond from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., however resulting from visitors points I would like to depart 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 suggests 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 wired not having time to share with my household and never having time for myself to relaxation for the subsequent day.
I'm positive there are lots of people like me. Moreover 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 could possibly be farther from the reality.
Mountain bikers have nearly taken over the paths round Lime Ridge and related parking at Montecito off Ygnacio Valley Highway. Strolling and mountaineering on the paths is like taking your life in your individual arms. Cyclists velocity by at 20-plus mph, coming inside a foot of hikers. One mishap would lead to some severe 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 frequently disregarding. Additionally, the spandex squads of 10-plus riders disregard cease indicators and alerts with impunity. They’ll take up a whole lane of visitors the place velocity limits are greater than 40 mph, impeding visitors. Additionally, the 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 supply
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 youngsters and search for books, some want to make use of the restrooms.
Our libraries supply way more than books, motion pictures and computer systems. In addition they supply applications for literacy, youngsters and households. Our libraries supply 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 cross SB 260, the Local weather Company Accountability Act.
SB 260 has already handed the state Senate and requires U.S. firms working in California and grossing over $1 billion yearly to reveal their carbon emissions. Companies opposing this invoice say it would damage their income and that it’s “simply too arduous” to measure. However worldwide measurement requirements, such because the Greenhouse Protocol, exist already and can be utilized by U.S. firms. Companies making over $1 billion in income yearly can absolutely afford to do that. As an alternative, firms ask people to make the mandatory modifications.
Time is working out to save lots of our planet. We have to know the impression of company emissions on the air pollution threatening California residents. Companies should disclose their impression on the setting; the general public has a proper to know.
Herbert. R. Salomon, M.D.
and Marcia Liberson, M.P.H.
Walnut Creek