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- From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Subject: Ideal Transportation Planning for Cities
- Organization: Pacific * Bell
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:39:02 GMT
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- Berkeley Transportation Commission
- 11/17/92 Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
- North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst Ave., Berkeley
-
- Proposed Resolution:
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- Whereas we need to protect the environment, while allowing all
- segments of society equal access to the destinations that supply
- their essential needs;
-
- Whereas the automobile and its relatives is the greatest threat
- both to the environment and to equal access for all;
-
- Whereas traffic calming is increasingly becoming the method of
- choice around the world for reducing the dominance of the
- automobile in our cities;
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- Whereas restrictions on the use of the automobile need to be
- supplemented by land use changes, in order to make the cleaner
- modes of transport viable;
-
- Whereas the most popular, clean, and energy-efficient mode of
- transport within the city is light rail;
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- Therefore, be it resolved that the Transportation Commission
- requests of the City Council that it make Traffic Calming, Urban
- _______________ _____
- Villages (compact development that makes walking, bicycling, and
- ________
- transit use maximally viable, e.g. Richard Register's plan for an
- "Ecocity Berkeley"), and Light Rail the basis for the Circulation
- __________
- Element of the General Plan (as recommended in Peter Newman and
- Jeff Kenworthy's book, Towards a More Sustainable Canberra).
- ___________________________________
-
- Mike Vandeman
- 510-823-2472
-