East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for Aug. 7, 2022
As a “People’s Park Survivor” shot in both legs that infamous day, May 15, 1969, I don’t understand why UC needs to use this particular site, other than the chancellor’s ego. It all seems like a power move. Why, over so many years, can the university still not embrace the amazing piece of work this park is?
I still hope that UC, Berkeley residents, and the city can get it together to make it a much better park than it has been up to now.Building housing at the Concord Naval Weapons Station site will bring much more traffic to the freeways for us. Residents already have enough traffic; it’s hard to get to work and home.
I am sure there are a lot of people like me. Besides all that, the environment is getting smaller and smaller. We do not need to destroy it.Oh, the drama. Regarding Clayton Dewberry’s letter , nothing could be further from the truth. Now they want even more of the space devoted to their “flow-through” trails. There is no enforcement of the rules so they are regularly disregarding. Also, the spandex squads of 10-plus riders disregard stop signs and signals with impunity. They’ll take up an entire lane of traffic where speed limits are more than 40 mph, impeding traffic. Also, the city spent a lot of money recently on putting bollards at many intersections and putting in bicycle lanes and trails to protect bicycle riders.
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