Light Festival and CD4 Community Congress
January has come and gone and we are nearing the end of February. Although the DWP's lead event manager was reminded by two members of our community to schedule the promised January meeting at which we were to have assessed the success or failure of November's Light Festival pilot walking nights, it did not take place.
Our experiences in 2007 remind us how important it is that, instead of top-down solutions, the DWP work hand-in-hand with the public to make meaningful change. If our push for reform results in the event's conversion to a slo-mo bus ride or a longer bifurcated event, it will only pollute in a different way. There are indications that this might happen and will have to continue to work to ensure it does not.
For those who are able to attend, the meeting below presents an opportunity to register with DWP's top management that we want the 2008 Light Festival in Griffith Park be free of combustion engines and greenhouse gasses.
Bernadette Soter
Chair
Parks, River and Open Space Committee (PROS)
Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council (GGPNC)