Fwd: URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Pacific Coast Highway Safety

[Jim Baross]

This may be worthy of your speaking up to be "outspoken" in support. TODAY!

I do not have any details of the proposed improvements.

Jim Baross

CABO President

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From: Damian Kevitt <damian...@streetsareforeveryone.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Subject: URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Pacific Coast Highway Safety
To: Damian Kevitt <Damian...@streetsareforeveryone.org>
Cc: Brett Slaughenhaupt <br...@streetsareforeveryone.org>

Hello fellow advocates, bicycle clubs, and loud voices, 

I am urgently requesting your help regarding PCH through Malibu. Caltrans is planning to repave the Western end of PCH through Malibu and, at the last minute, added in some safety upgrades -- improved bike lanes, more dark-sky compliant lights, some sidewalks in a few locations, etc. While there is a LOT more we want to see done, this is a less expensive and faster way for Caltrans to improve the safety of PCH with existing funds. 

The Problem

The Malibu Planning Commission has been delaying a vote, criticizing every aspect of the plan, and, unless we act, they will likely vote against it TONIGHT AT 6:30 PM. Caltrans's maintenance budget is facing a $1.6 billion shortfall. If this plan isn't approved or is further delayed, it is VERY likely that Caltrans will reallocate the $55 million for this project to other shovel-ready maintenance projects. 

This will leave the western end of PCH without any significant safety upgrades for the next several years to a decade or longer, resulting in more deaths and serious injuries.   

Your Help is URGENTLY Needed

SAFE has started an email call to action. So far, 255 emails have been sent in support of the Malibu Planning Commission. We need more people to share the word, and I am reaching out to all of you to see if you can email in support and share this on social media, or send it out to your list. 

Sending Emails in Support (use this link): https://bit.ly/PCHPlan

I also need more people to show up and speak in support:

Malibu City Hall

Tonight at 6:30 PM

You can also join and speak in support virtually: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82440539030

This is a link to the agenda for tonight. 

I apologize! I know this is last-minute. So much has been going on regarding road safety issues (good and bad) that it's been hard to think too far ahead, so if you can't do anything on this, it's okay. 

Thank you for your help on this. 

Best, Damian 

Damian Kevitt

Executive Director

Streets Are For Everyone

   

Office: (844) 884-7233 

Cell: (213) 514-2651

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