Sanctuary Suit is Settled

The Mayacamas Sanctuary Settlement

Birds of Great Brittain

Madrone Volunteers

The Transportation Ballot Measures

Thank You

A Walk on the Wild Side

Observations

Midweek Walkabout Results

Pee Wee Report

Things To Do

Pee Wee Audubon

October Birding in Sonoma County

Through the Garden Gate: Backyard Birding

Welcome New Members

Fewer Ducks

Future Pee Wee Events

The Transportation Ballot Measures

The Madrone Audubon Society went on record at its June Board meeting as supporting the transportation measures on the November 3 ballot. Measures B and C would provide a half-cent sales tax to add lanes to Highway 101, create a rail transit system, repair local roads, expand and improve bus service, enhance the county's bikeways, add pedestrian trails, and encourage transit-oriented developments. Measure D would freeze land use as-is for twenty years in the corridor around Highway 101 south of Petaluma.

The measures were crafted over a period of several years by a Transportation Coalition of North Bay business, construction, and environmental interests. They have received very mixed reviews in the environmental community.

Madrone Audubon does not specialize in transportation issues. The consensus, however, was pretty much as Richard Day expressed it in the August, 1998 Sonoma County Environmental Impact Reporter: "If we oppose the measure we may temporarily delay the widening of Highway 101, but we will miss the unique opportunity to create major non-automobile transportation improvements that could lead to reforms in land use planning."