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To the Editor: 

For years and years, Saint John's Neighbors (a neighborhood watch group that is mostly elderly long-term Berkeley residents) has been writing to Berkeley City Council members, to Berkeley's Police Chiefs, to Berkeley's City Managers, to everyone who we thought might help us. 

For years and years, Saint John's Neighbors has worried that elderly pedestrians, handicapped pedestrians, and children are put in danger by the lawlessness of drivers in Berkeley, where there is almost no enforcement of speed limits or other road-use laws.  

Now, unfortunately, two elderly pedestrians have been killed in just the manner that we have worried about for so long.  

For years and years, Saint John's Neighbors has asked “How many pedestrians have to be killed before the City of Berkeley will take our complaints seriously?” 

Are two more totally-unnecessary deaths enough deaths to prod this Berkeley City Council to do what is moral, right, and legal? 

We hope that those members of this Berkeley City Council who are wasting precious resources (time, energy, money, etc.) on foreign policy issues and/or trying to interfere with the function of international free markets will, finally, pay attention to the business of governing the City of Berkeley. 

Anne Marselis  

Secretary  

Saint John's Neighbors  

(A neighborhood watch group  

of long-term Berkeley residents, mostly pedestrians.)