This statement was submitted to Berkeley City Council on April 21, 2009 STATEMENT OF SUPPORT We, the board and members of the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition, fully support the April 2009 version Climate Action Plan and encourage you to vote unanimously to approve it. The plan is a visionary document that charts a positive, healthy, and truly green future for Berkeley. We support all the elements of the plan, but we are particularly grateful for the plan’s emphasis on a greater role for bicycling, walking, and public transportation and a diminished role for private automobile use. As the plan states, approximately 47% of carbon emissions in Berkeley result from transportation. And as the plan also makes clear, the time has come when, to be true to our environmentalist heritage and values, we must change our behavior-relying less on private automobiles and more on other ways to get around. Thank you.