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Greenbelt Alliance In the News
May 12, 2005 INSIDE BEAT Subheading BONITA BREWERBIKING BY BUS: A few dozen bicyclists on an annual Bay Area environmental bike tour stopped in North Livermore on Wednesday to voice opposition to the 2,450-unit Livermore Trails housing project proposed on November's city ballot. But they were so worried about cut-through commuter traffic that they arrived at the protest site on a bus, which shuttled them a total of 18 miles between Livermore and Brentwood. "This stretch is no longer safe enough for bicyclists," said bike tour coordinator Steve Van Landingham, noting two cyclists on last year's tour were hit by vehicles in the area, one on Dalton Road and one on Vasco Road. The Greenbelt Alliance has sponsored the weeklong bike tour of mainly rural roads circling the Bay Area for the past 16 years. This is the first time the chain has been broken due to safety concerns, Van Landingham said. He said that because of sprawl development, "several roads are beginning to look like Vasco -- the poster child for bad planning for alternate means of transportation." Members of local environmental groups, the Sierra Club and the California Native Plant Society also attended Wednesday's protest of Pardee Homes' proposed development. ### |
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