Wednesday 17 February 2010 we met with Lisa Pinto, District Deputy for Congressman Henry Waxman.
Here is the text of the invitation:
Dear Lisa,
We understand that Rep Henry Waxman will be at UCLA for the Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg lecture on Wed 17 Feb 2010. The student group Bicycle Coalition at UCLA and the UCLA Bicycle Academy would like to invite Mr Waxman for a short meeting on that day about impaired bicycle circulation through the grounds of the National Cemetery directly adjacent to UCLA. Untill 2001, the cemetery offered a safe and convenient access route for bicycle commuters. Its closure on a pretense of national security has had grievous impacts for commuting cyclists who have no safe route between Brentwood and Westwood. Alternative routes are unsafe and deter many cyclists. In order to foster sustainable transportation options around UCLA, the re-opening of the National Cemetery is urgently required.
The National Cemetery, based on a mistaken understanding of bicycling as "recreation", has closed the cemetery for bicycle traffic since 9/11/2001. We ask the Representative to intervene with the Department for Veterans Affairs in order to lift this inequitable closure and revert to the previous status for the benefit of cycling UCLA commuters and the public in general. The imminent widening of the I-405 gives additional urgency to re-instating the previous condition.
We hope representatives of UCLA Transportation, UCLA Sustainability, the Chancellor's office and Councilmember Rosendahl's transportation deputy and two cycling UCLA Nobel prize winners will be able to attend the meeting.
We understand that Rep Henry Waxman will be at UCLA for the Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg lecture on Wed 17 Feb 2010. The student group Bicycle Coalition at UCLA and the UCLA Bicycle Academy would like to invite Mr Waxman for a short meeting on that day about impaired bicycle circulation through the grounds of the National Cemetery directly adjacent to UCLA. Untill 2001, the cemetery offered a safe and convenient access route for bicycle commuters. Its closure on a pretense of national security has had grievous impacts for commuting cyclists who have no safe route between Brentwood and Westwood. Alternative routes are unsafe and deter many cyclists. In order to foster sustainable transportation options around UCLA, the re-opening of the National Cemetery is urgently required.
The National Cemetery, based on a mistaken understanding of bicycling as "recreation", has closed the cemetery for bicycle traffic since 9/11/2001. We ask the Representative to intervene with the Department for Veterans Affairs in order to lift this inequitable closure and revert to the previous status for the benefit of cycling UCLA commuters and the public in general. The imminent widening of the I-405 gives additional urgency to re-instating the previous condition.
We hope representatives of UCLA Transportation, UCLA Sustainability, the Chancellor's office and Councilmember Rosendahl's transportation deputy and two cycling UCLA Nobel prize winners will be able to attend the meeting.
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