Take Action to Support the City of Los Angeles Mobility Plan!

Please join us today, Monday June 15th for #MobilityMondayLA to show support for Mobility Plan 2035:

1. Email and call your councilmember (find your councilmember here) - sample below
2. Share/tweet that you did it! (sample tweet: “I just called @PaulKoretzCD5 to support Mobility Plan 2035. You should too! #MobilityMondayLA”)

Later this month, the Los Angeles City Council will consider Mobility Plan 2035, the first comprehensive update to the city’s transportation policies since 1999. A lot has changed since the 1990s: we now have regular CicLAvias, everyday bike ridership has spiked, and the voter-approved expansion of the region’s transit system is rapidly under construction. Our streets are now seen as places for people, not just thoroughfares for cars. Technologies like real-time transit info, ride hailing apps, and bike share promise to give Angelenos new tools to take full advantage of the new infrastructure being built. The adoption of the unprecedented Plan for a Healthy Los Angeles earlier this year has grounded mobility conversations in the context of health and equity, recognizing that better transportation policy provides economic mobility for underserved residents while promoting community health and active transportation. And, Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Sustainable City pLAn calls for increasing walking, biking and transit to 35% of all trips in just 10 years to help meet the city’s greenhouse gas reduction goals. The resulting Mobility Plan 2035 is a plan that is right for Los Angeles and right for our multimodal future.

What does the Mobility Plan do?

• Makes safety the City’s #1 transportation priority, particularly the safety of children walking to school.
• Sets design speeds for city streets and provides engineering and enforcement solutions to stop the constant increase in speed limits.
• Doubles city funding for walking and bicycling.
• Calls for annual bicycle and pedestrian counts by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT).
• Sets a performance metric of zero increase in car travel per person.

You can see the entire Mobility Plan 2035 and EIR here.

As with any significant progress, skeptics and naysayers are vocally opposing the Plan, either in whole or in part. Some neighborhood groups are fearful that a transition away from a car-dominated city to a balanced system might snarl traffic or delay emergency responders. Meanwhile, a vocal minority are taking this opportunity to attack specific projects, which threatens to piecemeal a well-planned citywide network. This Plan is supported by a broad base of residents, business groups, environmental organizations, and health advocates. Now is the time to demonstrate that support to the City Council.

Below is a list of each citycouncil member's twitter handle and a sample email you can modify and send to your councilmember to show support for the Mobility Plan.

• CD1: @gilcedillocd1
• CD2: @PaulKrekorian
• CD3: @BobBlumenfield
• CD4: @TomLaBonge
• CD5: @PaulKoretzCD5
• CD6: @CD6Nury
• CD7: @Fuentes4LA
• CD8: @BernardCParks
• CD9: @CurrenDPriceJr
• CD10: @HerbJWesson
• CD11: @mikebonin
• CD12: @Mitch_Englander
• CD13: @MitchOFarrell
• CD14: @josehuizar
• CD15: @JoeBuscaino

Sample Email

To: (find your councilmember here)@lacity.org
Bcc: [email protected]
Subj: Support Mobility Plan 2035 for safe & sustainable streets!

Dear Councilmember _________,

I support adopting the Mobility Plan 2035, including all of its proposed networks. As a ___________ (e.g.  pedestrian, bike rider, transit user, driver, business owner, student, parent, etc.), I strongly support this Plan because I believe that it will help make L.A. streets better for all of us walking, biking, taking transit and driving.

A well-connected network of complete streets improvements the Plan includes will give people healthier options to get around our neighborhoods and our whole city. Calmer traffic and safer streets are critical to protect and enhance our quality of life. We need this plan to make all modes of transportation work together for our city. The modal networks in the Plan were carefully crafted to balance the needs of all who will use them. We can't afford to piecemeal them to appease local naysayers without undermining their citywide utility.

This Plan also supports LADOT's goal of eliminating all traffic deaths by 2025. Right now, a person walking or bicycling is killed on L.A. streets every three days. We know that good design, along with education and enforcement, is essential to meeting this goal. This Plan gives all city agencies the tools and the direction to work together toward making L.A. a safe city to move around in.

(Personal comments)

Please support the Mobility Plan 2035 so that we can all travel safely on the streets of L.A.

Sincerely,

(Your name)
(Your address)