Safe Neighborhood Streets represents a significant step toward improving road safety in residential areas by letting cities use 20 or 25 mph speed limits on two-lane undivided residential streets, like counties can already do today for neighborhoods in unincorporated areas.

There is a House bill, HB 5235 (Anchía) and a Senate bill, SB 2725 (Cook | West | Zaffirini) and both are "in committee" hopefully getting a hearing very soon. Given that some members are on the committee and some are not, this form will give you three potential letters for your State Representative and Senator:

• If your representatives are serving on the House or Senate Transportation Committee, this form will show you a letter asking them to support the bill in committee.
• If your representatives are one of the bill authors, this form will show you a draft letter thanking them for their work on this bill.
• If your representatives are not on those committees, the form will show you a letter asking them to support safety bills in general, including Safe Neighborhood Streets.

Please feel free to change the letter however you want, but we ask that you be nice, respectful, and positive. Definitely share any of your own experiences with traffic crashes or with safe streets that made you feel safe and comfortable when you were using them. Please don't use us vs. them language. Unsafe neighborhood streets hurt people inside and outside motor vehicles, and safe neighborhood streets will make it better for all of us when we're walking, biking, and driving.