Support AB 500
Dear Friends,
We urgently need help today to preserve the I-580 ban on big trucks. Last year when CalTrans announced it would study the ban, thousands of Oakland and San Leandro residents wrote letters and signed petitions, and we convinced CalTrans not to lift the ban.
Then Assembly Member Ellen Corbett from San Leandro introduced a bill, AB 500, to make the ban permanent in state law. The bill has made it all the way through the Assembly, but has not fared as well in the Senate Transportation Committee. That Committee voted against the bill, but agreed to reconsider it on June 20.
Please send letters in support of AB 500 to members of the Senate Transportation Committee, with a copy to Assembly Member Corbett. If you can't send a letter, make a phone call, or send an email. If you can't send multiple letters, send one to Assembly Member Corbett, and her staff will deliver copies to the committee members.
Tell the members that this is a 37-year commitment to our community that needs the protection of state law so that state agencies will continue to honor it. Tell the members why the pollution and congestion of truck traffic is inappropriate for this residential corridor.
- A truck ban existed on MacArthur Blvd, even before the freeway was built. State officials agreed to continue the truck ban as a condition of building the freeway.
- Schools, hospitals and other institutions along the freeway rely on the truck ban to keep the air quality as clean as possible
- There are few commercial truck origination's or destinations along this section of freeway - no need for a freight through-route.
- This freeway is a state-designated Scenic Route running predominantly through residential neighborhoods.
Your letters will make a difference. Please write today.
Sincerely,
Dick Spees
Councilmember, District 4Here are the Members of Senate Transportation Committee. All Senators use the same email address template.
Senator Betty Karnette, Chair
State Capitol, Room 3086
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-6447 - Fax (916) 327-9113
Senator.Karnette@sen.ca.govSenator Joseph Dunn, Vice Chair
State Capitol, Room 2068
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-5831 - Fax (916) 323-2323Senator Jim Costa,
State Capitol, Room 5100
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-4641 - Fax (916) 327-5989Senator Liz Figueroa, Co-author
State Capitol, Room 2057
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-6671 - Fax (916) 327-2433
Senator.Figueroa@sen.ca.govSenator Tom Hayden
State Capitol, Room 2080
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-1353 - Fax (916) 324-4823Senator David Kelley
State Capitol, Room 3082
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-5581 - Fax (916) 327-2187Senator Dick Monteith
State Capitol, Room 2048
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-1392 - Fax (916) 445-0773Senator Bill Marrow
State Capitol, Room 4062
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-3731 - Fax (916) 446-7381Senator Kevin Murray
State Capitol, Room 4082
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-5215 - Fax (916) 445-8899Senator Richard Rainey
State Capitol, Room 4090
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-6083 - Fax (916) 445-2527Senator Nell Soto
State Capitol, Room 4066
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-6868 - Fax (916) 445-0128Senator Jackie Speier
State Capitol, Room 2032
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 445-0503 - Fax (916) 327-2186