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Blessing of the Bikes and Sustainable Solutions Bike Tour
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From EBBC.org: photo courtesy of http://www.theblessingofthebikes.com/ Join us for our first ever Blessing of the Bikes MLK Jr Civic Center Park MLK Jr. Way between Allston Way and Center Street, Berkeley May 5, 11:00am – noon To launch National Bike Month this May, the EBBC will host its first-ever Blessing of Bicycles. Bring your bike […]
First-Ever Sunday Streets Event Transforms Downtown Berkeley
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Some 40,000 people flooded downtown Berkeley on a brilliantly sunny day in October, as the city became the latest in the San Francisco Bay Area to host a “Sunday Streets” event. Organizers closed 17 blocks of Berkeley’s Shattuck Avenue to cars––and opened them to pretty much everything else. Cyclists pedaled, hula hoops turned, children frolicked, […]
San Jose Celebrates First ViaVelo, Opens Downtown Streets to People
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A family enjoying the warm day and car-free streets. Photos: Matthew Roth. San Jose kicked off its first ViaVelo Saturday with the opening of seven blocks of San Fernando Street downtown to bicycle riders, skaters, and pedestrians who enjoyed five hours of car-free space. Several hundred people showed up, many of them families and the […]
Watch: “People Behaving Badly” Consults Streetsblog on Bike Lane Safety
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Stanley Roberts asked me to come out yesterday for one of his “People Behaving Badly” segments and help explain how drivers should legally make a right-turn, since CBS 5 didn’t get it quite right. Roberts still didn’t touch on the point that CBS got wrong — drivers can’t just jump in front of people on […]
Remembering Victims of Road Violence
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Yesterday afternoon, advocates from Walk San Francisco joined the newly formed “Families for Safe Streets” and others, for a walk of remembrance for traffic victims. The walk, with a crowd of nearly 100 participants, started at 16th and Mission and followed a circuitous route through some of San Francisco’s most notorious intersections, concluding with a […]
First Sunday Streets of 2010 A Big Hit
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Photo: sirgious On an incredible spring day with temperatures in the 60s, thousands of people descended on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for the first Sunday Streets of 2010, riding, skating, dancing, hula hooping, and swinging in the coolest bicycle-powered amusement park ride I’ve ever seen. With over three miles of the northbound lanes of […]