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Advocacy at Risk: Please help
Seriously, we fixed the links this time!
image: SCBC Outreach Director Sandra Lupien and Executive Director, Gary Helfrich, lead a visioning session on the bicycle path design for the Southeast Greenway project on 12/3/2011.
Earlier this week in our e-update, we urged you protect Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition's advocacy programs by making a tax-deductible year-end gift. Unfortunately, and embarrassingly, the links to the donation page were broken! We have fixed the problem by posting our annual funding request AND a live "donate" button on our homepage at www.BikeSonoma.org. Please accept our most humble apologies for the inconvenience, and visit the page now. Remember, we've received a $10K matching grant to start us toward raising our $30K goal. That means when you donate now, your money is doubled!Your donation directly supports your vision for an increasingly bicycle-friendly Sonoma County for generations to come. Please give generously.Thank you so much!
Take Action to Protect SMART
How YOU can help save the train & pathway.
SMART is under attack by a small group of
individuals who are attempting to derail the SMART project before it even gets
rolling.
SMART will provide:
- A world class
bicycle/pedestrian multi-use pathway from Cloverdale to Larkspur
- Approximately
900 jobs in the region
- Sustainable
transportation choices for Sonoma and Marin counties
- An
alternative to Highway 101 traffic congestion
- Transportation
choices for our aging population
- Clean,
green transportation for this and future generations
There are four simple things you can do today
in order to help protect the SMART Train and Pathway:
- Decline
to Sign- Anti-SMART people are working
to gather signatures throughout our communities to kill SMART. Please do
not sign the anti-SMART petition.
- Help
Leaflet- The SMART Rider's Coalition
has a team of supporters that are working on the ground to educate the
public about the importance of SMART for this and future generations. This
is an important way you can directly help to keep petitions from being
signed. If you can volunteer, please contact Ben Boyce at: ben.boyce@sbcglobal.net.
- Attend
SMART Board Meeting on Wednesday, December 21st at 2:30 PM
(check
the board agenda for schedule changes). It is important
for SMART supporters to attend this meeting to speak on behalf of the
SMART Train and Pathway. The meeting will take place at San Rafael City
Hall, 1400 5th Avenue in downtown San Rafael. Please RSVP to Sandra@BikeSonoma.org if you can attend the
meeting.
- Write
to your local newspaper and support SMART using your favorite social
networking site- If you would like more
information on how you can help by writing letters, please contact: Alisha@marinbike.org. Please "like"
SMART Riders on the SMART
Riders Facebook page, or by visiting our website at: www.smartriders.wordpress.com.You
can follow SMART
Riders on Twitter too.
Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition is working as part of the SMART
Riders Coalition, a group of individuals and union, business and
environmental organizations formed to support the Sonoma Marin Area Rail
Transit (SMART) Train and Pathway. The Coalition's mission is to educate the
public about the benefits of SMART Train and Pathway for the North Bay
community.
Wanna Talk Bikes?
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Action Alert!
Cotati City Council meeting 12/14 at 7pm
On
Wednesday, December 14th at 7:00 p.m. Cotati City Council will
consider the Old Redwood Highway project.
The options are a 4-lane “City
Boulevard” style street with signalized intersections and bike lanes, OR a 2-lane
“Village Mainstreet” design with roundabouts and wide bike lanes. Please attend the council meeting and
speak in favor of the 2-lane with roundabouts design. This is a great opportunity
to slow down traffic and increase safety for everyone.
Sign up for Climate Ride 2012
Sign up today for the ride of your life!
Registration is open for Climate Ride California 2012! This 320 mile, fully-supported bike ride from Fortuna to San Francisco is the first-ever fundraiser bike ride benefitting organizations doing work to protect the climate and to promote bicycling.
Please register today at http://climateride.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&eventID=506&teamID=5104, and encourage your friends and riding partners to do so, too.
VOLUNTEER
WITH US ON NEW YEAR’S DAY!
The Santa Rosa Cycling
Club has always been a major supporter of Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. Each
year, the Club makes a generous cash donation to SCBC, loans lots of its great
equipment to our events, and its members (many of whom are also SCBC members)
volunteer at our events. Shifts available on 12/31 (afternoon) and on 1/1/2012.
Contact Tom Helm at tomhelm@sonic.net for info and to sign up.
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