Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica

Would you like your neighborhood streets and sidewalks to be safer so that your kids can walk or bike to school, or you can walk or bike to the store?  Do you wish the stoplight in your neighborhood could be replaced with a roundabout so that traffic would flow more smoothly but not as dangerously fast? Do you wish there were more bike lanes near your house, or on your route to work, or between your house and the bus stop? The City of LA is listening!

They have put together a cool "Great Streets; Great Neighborhoods Activity Kit" to get your vision of LA streets, your priorities, and your specific asks for your neighborhood. Download the kit here, and mail it in by September 1. 

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