Posted on August 10 at 10:10 a.m.

Im all for preventing someone from the hopeless decision to kill themselves... HOWEVER... I am also for taking these funds to improve the DISMAL SAFETY MEASURES that have been, almost as an afterthought, taken to protect those of us on bicycles. A line in the road WILL NOT stop a car from smacking you into the here-after. I would LOVE to participate in riding my bike to work, but I have known 2 people so far who have been killed by passing traffic that accidentally clipped them while passing. You want to spend some money? MAKE IT COUNT FOR THOSE OF US WHO WANT TO LIVE!

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Posted on August 10 at 8:06 a.m.

It has always been my opinion that the automobile, and all the accommodations for the automobile, along with densely populated neighborhoods, have been the prime reasons I have been against growth. With every home you introduce into the area, you get a package deal of at least one car. With every car introduced into the area, you increase the demand for parking, increase traffic congestion, increase the demand for more filling stations, roads, ... the list just goes on and on. Once you solve this counties transportation issues and make it more localized and pedestrian friendly, so we don't need to drive everywhere we need to go, and then sure... you can invite many more families into the area. Just look around you the next time you are on the 101 stuck in traffic... count the number of cars around you and you will be surprised at how FEW people there actually are taking up all that space... creating all that bad air, burning all that gas that we all end up inhaling. The same goes with neighborhoods. STOP with the gigantic homes, stop with the densely populated neighborhoods, live modestly, and build in a manner that can sustain the wild-life that DOES live in these undeveloped hills and vistas (they have a right to life as well) and I will budge. until then, it is these tree huggers who are saving this area from developing into the same intolerable mess many of you moved here to get away from. This bag will only hold so many potatoes.

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