Letters: Walnut Creek bike path plan doesn’t enhance safety

Submit your letter to the editor via this form Read more Letters to the Editor Bike-path gambit doesn t enhance safety Re Safety debate at crossroads Page A Oct In a new meeting held behind closed doors Contra Costa County and the city of Walnut Creek agreed to use over million in funds from programs designed to promote highway safety and improvements to carve out a three-block-long bicycle path on Treat Boulevard The affected area runs from North Main St to Jones Road a stretch that right now handles over vehicles a day The proposed path duplicates the existing Canal Trail which is dedicated to bikers and pedestrians is located two blocks south of Treat Boulevard and connects directly to the Iron Horse Trail for access to the Pleasant Hill BART station The city acknowledged both the high danger to bikers using the proposed paths and the negative impacts on traffic in this highly congested area So why is this project going forward Larry McEwen Walnut Creek Opposing financing protocol is out of step Re Ethical outlay procedures approved Page B Oct The Jewish Public Relations Council JCRC came out in opposition to an Alameda County Ethical Assets Framework at the Oct Board of Supervisors meeting The supervisors passed the program but delayed implementation The majority of Jews present at that meeting were mobilized by Jewish Voice for Peace and supported the initiative A September Washington Post poll revealed that the majority of U S Jews do not patronage current Israeli policies The JCRC s position of opposing a pro-human rights protocol is not a mainstream position and it is not aligned with Jewish values The JCRC accused Israel s critics of antisemitism and expressed concern about Jewish safety Associating Jews with the acts of a murderous regime makes Jews less safe Jews are safer in a world that works for all including Palestinians We urge the supervisors to implement the Ethical Assets Guidelines as soon as doable Cynthia Kaufman Oakland California must go its own way on soundness care Re Policyholders brace for price increases Page A Nov The current story harkens back to a pre-ACA time when people went without insurance because of the high costs of insurance premiums What we need for California is a Cal-Care for all approach However this year a Cal-Care bill was sent to Gov Gavin Newsom and he vetoed it The main reason is that the federal establishment is not willing to give money that is due to us which messes with the state budget Staying in the United States is not beneficial to California In we gave billion to the federal regime which ends up getting redistributed to other states The California National Party is the only party that recognizes this and has universal robustness care Cal-Care or Medi-Cal for all as part of its platform Maya Ram Union City Constitution will halt third term for Trump Re Don t think Trump won t try for third term Page A Nov A letter writer opined that President Trump could seek a third term as president by being vice president on a ticket headed by JD Vance and after Vance won the presidency Vance could by prearrangement resign and Trump would become president However the th Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that one who is constitutionally ineligible to be president is also ineligible to be vice president which would presumably prevent Trump from becoming president under this subterfuge Trump could argue that the nd Amendment of the Constitution prohibits him only from being elected but not veritably serving as president for a third term But the Supreme Court would likely reject this subterfuge on grounds that it conflicts with the plain intent of the nd amendment to prevent a person from serving a third term as president through the electoral process as Franklin Roosevelt did in the s Roderick Walston Orinda Don t cancel comic just move it Re Don t cancel comic for having an opinion Page A Nov I am one of the people who have written to request that Mallard Fillmore be moved to the Opinion Page since it is clearly political in nature I m not asking that it be censored or removed from the paper just that it be recognized as political opinion In the past inadequate days Mallard Fillmore has implied that the media only looks for bad things about Donald Trump and twists the truth that liberals are stealing our tax dollars to assistance their own political party and only care about sickness in an referendum year and the media is hypocritically misleading us about the destruction of the White House East Wing Meanwhile Pickles taught Nelson to say I love you to his grandma and Luann adopted a puppy Which of these is not like the other Incidentally Doonesbury is offering more-than- -year-old strips That s not a fair balance Sampson Van Zandt Walnut Creek