Comments on: LACBC: Call Your Mayor To Support Bike Resolution http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Damien Newton http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 Damien Newton Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:49:04 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/#comment-1190 Maybe I phrased it poorly in the first paragraph. The US House has already passed a resolution with similar wording. Getting this resolution passed is a lobbying tool and a statement of what is important. It won't change things by itself, but maybe if Obama wins the White House something like this resolution will help him decide how to reshape our national funding priorities. Maybe I phrased it poorly in the first paragraph. The US House has already passed a resolution with similar wording. Getting this resolution passed is a lobbying tool and a statement of what is important. It won’t change things by itself, but maybe if Obama wins the White House something like this resolution will help him decide how to reshape our national funding priorities.

]]> By: Umberto Brayj http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1183 Umberto Brayj Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:45:17 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/#comment-1183 Okay, I called and left a message for the mayor's transportation deputy ... what will this end up doing? We're asking the mayor to endorse the Council of Mayors' recommendation to the US Congress that bikes and pedestrians are included in the nations' transportation plans? Why not just go straight to the US Congress with our concerns? What will L.A. get out of this? What are the Council of Mayors asking for anyway? Less money for highways?! I know of no mayor in the L.A. area who is interested in an end to free highway dollars (or 80% matching funds for highway projects). Okay, I called and left a message for the mayor’s transportation deputy … what will this end up doing?

We’re asking the mayor to endorse the Council of Mayors’ recommendation to the US Congress that bikes and pedestrians are included in the nations’ transportation plans?

Why not just go straight to the US Congress with our concerns? What will L.A. get out of this? What are the Council of Mayors asking for anyway? Less money for highways?! I know of no mayor in the L.A. area who is interested in an end to free highway dollars (or 80% matching funds for highway projects).

]]> By: Dorothy Le http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1181 Dorothy Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:39:10 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/#comment-1181 by the way, there are currently NO LA County mayors who are co-sponsoring this....let's get LA on board! by the way, there are currently NO LA County mayors who are co-sponsoring this….let’s get LA on board!

]]> By: Dorothy Le http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Dorothy Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:32:47 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/06/18/lacbc-call-your-mayor-to-support-bike-resolution/#comment-1180 In case you live in LA county but not LA City, here are other mayors who are participating and their respective contact info. BEVERLY HILLS, Barry Brucker (310) 285-1013 CERRITOS, Jim Edwards (562) 924-6582 LONG BEACH, Bob Foster (562) 570-6801 mayor@longbeach.gov MANHATTAN BEACH, Richard Montgomery (310) 802-5053 rmontgomery@citymb.info MONROVIA, Rob Hammond 626 932 5550 rob@npmoninc.com POMONA, Norma Torres 909-620-2051 REDONDO BEACH, Mike Gin (310) 372-1171, Ext. 2260 SAN GABRIEL, Harry L. Baldwin (626) 308-2816 Hbaldwin@sgch.org In case you live in LA county but not LA City, here are other mayors who are participating and their respective contact info.

BEVERLY HILLS, Barry Brucker

(310) 285-1013

CERRITOS, Jim Edwards
(562) 924-6582

LONG BEACH, Bob Foster

(562) 570-6801
mayor@longbeach.gov

MANHATTAN BEACH, Richard Montgomery

(310) 802-5053
rmontgomery@citymb.info

MONROVIA, Rob Hammond

626 932 5550
rob@npmoninc.com

POMONA, Norma Torres
909-620-2051

REDONDO BEACH, Mike Gin

(310) 372-1171, Ext. 2260

SAN GABRIEL, Harry L. Baldwin

(626) 308-2816
Hbaldwin@sgch.org

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