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Coalition
Update:
October 2003
COALITION UPDATE is now a monthly email newsletter.
(formerly a quarterly print publication - see Archives below).
It contains articles about TALC's program initiatives,
announcements and calendar items, and is a great source of
information about recent TALC activities and victories.
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1. New Report - Children's Lack of Travel Choices
Taking Toll on Parents, Traffic, and Pocketbooks
2. Fast Transit/Better Access - A Free Community Forum about Revolutionizing SF
Transit
3. Special Meeting - Discuss the RTP update with MTC representatives!
4. Victory! Bus Service Saved in Santa Clara: for now
5. Send us your County's “Top Three Land Use Priorities” for TALC's TLR Report
6. Vote No on Propositions 53 and 54!
7. Calendar
8. Members In Action - Transportation for a Livable City (TLC)
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1. New Report -
Children's Lack of Travel Choices Taking Toll on
Parents, Traffic, and Pocketbooks
The report, Can't Get There From Here,
released statewide at press events at local schools in
Sacramento, Oakland and Los Angeles, features new survey
data showing that California children now make about 74
percent of all their trips in automobiles, while walking
and bicycling now account for just 16 percent of
children's trips. The report also documents how today's
travel patterns are taking a toll on the health of
California's children. New statistics show that the
number one cause of accidental death for children under
18 is as a passenger in an automobile accident, and the
third leading cause of accidental death is being hit by
a car as a pedestrian. The financial toll of motor
vehicle accidents in 2001 involving child pedestrians
and bicyclists in California was $138 million in medical
expenses. The report outlines recommendations for
solving this crisis.
Released by the Surface Transportation Policy Project
(STPP), the Transportation and Land Use Coalition
(TALC) and the Latino Issues Forum (LIF),
Can't Get There From Here is available online at
http://www.transcoalition.org/reports/kids/kids_home.html.
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2. Fast Transit/Better Access - A free community
forum about revolutionizing SF Transit
Wed, October 15, 2003, 12:00 - 1:00 PM,
sandwiches will be served
St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Avenue, San
Francisco
Fast, reliable, affordable transit is necessary to
enable people to access jobs, education, health care and
services. San Francisco has the opportunity to harness a
revolutionary new transit approach, known as Bus
Rapid Transit, that can dramatically improve service
for today's passengers and future riders. This forum is
open to anyone who wants to learn about the challenges
our transit system faces and the opportunities offered
by BRT. Participants will have a chance to voice their
ideas, suggestions and concerns to representatives from
Muni, the Transportation Authority and the Planning
Department.
The event -- sponsored by TALC -- is free, but please
RSVP by calling 510-740-3150 or
e-mailing. Download
the flyer to circulate to interested organizations. The
PDF is online at:
http://www.transcoalition.org/c/brt_flyer.pdf
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3. Special Meeting - Discuss the RTP update with MTC
representatives!
Monday, October 13, 2003, 5:30-7:30pm, Sierra
Club, 85 2nd Street, SF
TALC's regular October meeting is being replaced by
this special 2-hour dialogue between TALC activists and
members, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
about the upcoming Regional Transportation Plan (Transportation
2030). This dialogue is especially important since
the RTP represents a tremendous opportunity to plan how
we invest in our Bay Area transportation infrastructure
for the next 25 years! It includes maintenance and
expansion of the existing system, for all modes of
transportation, including roads and highways, public
transit, pedestrian, and bicycle facilities.
To attend, RSVP to
Stuart Cohen.
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4. Victory! Bus Service Saved in Santa Clara: for now
The victory of TALC and a host of community groups
that supported the Save Our Transit
alternative in the South Bay has been upheld by a
superior court judge. Judge Socrates Manoukian held that
the VTA could raise $80 million by selling bonds against
the 2000 Measure A sales tax over the next two years to
avoid a 21 percent reduction in bus and light-rail
operations that was scheduled for January. The cuts
would have affected nearly every bus route, eliminated
more than a dozen lines, reduced trolley service, and
caused the layoff of as many as 400 transit workers.
See Stuart Cohen's Op Ed in the SJ Mercury News, Sept.
25:
http://www.transcoalition.org/press/03_vta_oped_merc.html
Read more about Save Our Transit:
http://www.transcoalition.org/c/sus_vta/vta.html
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5. Send us your County's “Top Three Land Use
Priorities” for TALC's TLR Report!
Think David Letterman top ten list, but even better!
In our upcoming Transportation for a Livable Region
report, we will compile a list of the three most
important land use priorities in each Bay Area county,
to help ensure their future livability. A land use
priority can relate to any aspect of the way land is
used (open space, housing, planning processes,
affordability, parking, etc) and can be anything of
regional or countywide significance (a specific project,
a land use policy, a parcel of land that should be
preserved, what type of land use should happen in a
certain place, etc). To submit your Top Three Land
Use Priorities, please email
Amber Crabbe, the TLR
coordinator, with 1-your name, 2-for which county you
are submitting a list (more than one county is OK), and
3-your Top Three Land Use Priorities for that county.
For more on TLR, go to:
http://www.transcoalition.org/c/sus_tlr/tlr_home.html
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6. Vote No on Propositions 53 and 54!
On October 7, if you find your way past the 135
recall applicants, you will have the chance to vote on
two statewide initiatives. TALC is officially opposing
both propositions, and we urge you to vote no!
Proposition 54 would be incredibly damaging. It
would ban the state of California from collecting or
using important information on race, ethnicity or
national origin that is used to protect our health, our
schools and civil rights. It will endanger the health of
our communities by making it impossible to identify
health disparities in our most vulnerable populations,
or target resources and prevention strategies where they
are most needed. Join the Sierra Club, Urban
Habitat, the Planning and Conservation League,
Clean Water Action, and TALC in opposing Prop 54.
For more information go to:
www.defeat54.org
No on Prop.
53. It would create yet another multi-billion dollar
spending program at a time when California is already
cutting funds for our schools, slashing health care
programs for our children, the poor and elderly, raising
our college tuition fees and cutting our public safety
programs. And it has NO SMART GROWTH OR OPEN SPACE
PROTECTION PROVISIONS WHATSOEVER! Here’s how it
works: Prop. 53 forces the state to transfer about $850
million a year of existing funds into a new state
“infrastructure fund”, which would grow to billions of
dollars a year in the future. Money deposited in this
fund could only be used to pay for so-called
“infrastructure projects”, but could not be used to pay
for vital state programs and services, even if the
Legislature is forced to make huge cutbacks in these
areas. For more information go to:
www.noon53.org
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7. Calendar
October 13 - TALC SPECIAL RTP MEETING W/MTC,
5:30-7:30pm, Sierra Club, 85 2nd St., SF, Agenda not
yet available
* This
meeting replaces the regular October Regional Meeting
Learn more at:
http://www.transcoalition.org/calendar.html
October 7 -
VOTE NO on Proposition 54 and Proposition 53!
For more information go to:
http://www.defeat54.org/
October 15-18 - WALK/BIKE CONFERENCE,
CBC and the City of
Oakland's CA Walking and Bicycling Conference.
Learn more at:
http://www.WalkBikeCalifornia.net
December 10 -
TALC REGIONAL MEETING, 5:30-7:30pm, Sierra Club,
85 2nd St., SF,
Agenda not yet available
* No
Regional Meeting in November
Learn more at:
http://www.transcoalition.org/calendar.html
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8. Members In Action - Transportation for a Livable
City (TLC)
In San Francisco, a neighborhood is experiencing a
rebirth as sunlight shines down on open space previously
occupied by the monstrous Central Freeway. It's a
temporary condition, though, if the current plan to
rebuild the freeway wider than ever goes forward. TALC
member group Transportation for a Livable City is
working with a new neighborhood coalition to revisit the
plan, and save the north Mission and West SOMA
neighborhoods from the new overhead freeway and huge
ramps planned to touch down on Market Street at
Octavia.
For more information, visit the SOMA West Interactive
Neighborhood Group's website at
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