I continue to be astounded at the hate and bile neighbors have for bike/ped pathway projects. For example, this letter to the Berkeley Planning Commission:
Our kindergarten and 1st grade classes are located…directly adjacent to proposed Segment 1. The youngest and most vulnerable students at our University Avenue campus, i.e., 4 to 6 year old children, will therefore have a front-row seat for, and be exposed to, all the activities and risks that can be expected to occur on.
The letter goes on:
Another major concern is that the current plan calls for paving the entire length and width of the path but does not call for the installation of any shade-providing vegetation. This will result in considerable radiant heating of the kindergarten and first-grade classrooms on the west side of the school. In the afternoons, this radiant heat will result in these classes becoming too hot to safely conduct lessons.
This was not from a random Nimby, but Mitch Bostian. Mr. Bostian is the Head Administrator of an Elementary School in Berkeley.
And what amazing luck for his school to be located directly on a rail-trail! Kids could walk/bike to school, avoiding the huge risks of car transport. But noooo, the trail will expose kids to child rapists and murders.
That is, if the sidewalk death rays don’t kill them first.
Google him, find his contact info and ask him what he is really thinking.
I should point out that the school in question is not a public elementary school.
Has this guy ever been on the Greenway? This school happens to be 2 blocks up University Ave from where I live, and I really dont think they have anything to worry about. Id be more worried about the school being located on a very busy street (University) than about the people biking by the side of the schoolyard on the bike path.