ACTION ALERT:
Tell City Council we want safe Greenways

Pasadena City Council could award a contract for the Greenways on Monday! Speak up for All Ages and Abilities Greenways

The Pasadena City Council will consider approving a contract to design four north/south Greenways for safe walking and biking. This project is funded by an award from LA Metro. All Ages and Abilities greenways will reduce traffic speeds on these streets to around 20 MPH and reduce cut-through traffic, so that the streets will be safe and quiet for residents, and can serve as comfortable routes for walking and biking. The four streets - El Molino, Wilson, Sierra Bonita, and Craig, are the four lowest-volume streets that cross the 210 freeway.  That makes them a natural choice for walking and biking, and essential for our city’s biking network.

Tell City Council you support All Ages & Abilities Greenways!

Meeting: Monday, August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM

City Council Chambers, on the 2nd floor of Pasadena City Hall (southeast corner) or on zoom

Please comment at the meeting or in email!

To speak at the meeting:

1. Submit a Speaker Card for City Council

2. Choose Agenda Item #6

3. Write out what you will say.  You will have just 1 or 2 minutes

   to speak. Plan to be polite and to the point.

4. Join the meeting at Pasadena City Hall (best) or via zoom.

To email comment:
Email public comments to correspondence@cityofpasadena.net

Possible Talking Points

Everyone should tell City Council:

• An introduction (e.g. I am a Pasadena resident, a person who works in Pasadena, etc.)
  

• I want to see All Ages and Abilities greenways built to create safe neighborhood streets.

You might also add some of these points:

• The four streets  planned as Greenways – El Molino, Wilson, Sierra Bonita, and Craig – are the four lowest-volume streets that cross the 210 freeway.  That makes them a natural choice for walking and biking, and essential for our city’s biking network.

• The Greenways have outstanding community support!  Over 1000 people have signed petitions of support and written over 270 comments.  Plus, 17 local organizations have endorsed All Ages & Abilities Greenways, including the PUSD school board, the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, the Accessibility and Disability Commission, the Environmental Advisory Commission, and the Transportation Advisory Commission. 

• Greenways make streets safer while allowing access for cars and emergency vehicles.  Simple traffic calming, like speed bumps with emergency vehicle cut-throughs, reduce speeding while providing access for everyone. 

• Thousands of people ride bikes in Pasadena already. But, most people - about 60% - say they would like to ride a bike sometimes, but need safe spaces to do so. More biking trips frees up parking spaces for drivers, reduces traffic, and makes our city more accessible and vibrant. This has worked in other cities, and it will work here too!

• Speed cushions with emergency vehicle cut-throughs are a simple, low-cost traffic calming tool.  They should be allowed on the Greenways. Please update the Pasadena speed hump policy to allow speed cushions on the Greenways.

• Everyone wants to live on a safe, quiet street. Residents always want people to drive slowly in front of their homes. Building safe greenways will slow down drivers on four neighborhood streets, and so will be very popular with residents who live along those streets.

• The Greenways will provide safe routes to schools, and give students transportation options.  That’s why the PUSD school system, as well as PCC, Caltech, Polytechnic, and the Seqoyah school all support All Ages and Abilities Greenways. Kids thrive when they get the independence, fun, and exercise of getting themselves to school. 

• The Greenways can’t cause traffic problems in the city, because they carry a tiny amount of traffic - just a few percent of north/south travel. Besides the greenways, Pasadena has 12 high-volume north/south streets that carry over 200,000 cars per day across the 210 freeway. Building the greenways will not change any of these 12 high volume streets and so traffic will still flow freely.

• We are not fooled by misinformation from anti-safety advocates. City staff always plan for emergency vehicle access in any project. The greenways will allow residents to drive on them, so people can easily reach their homes. And, It is non-sense to think that slowing traffic on a few neighborhood streets will somehow cause traffic problems.