BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force
On the agenda:
- Update on Bikes-on-Board August Pilot
- Current Actions to Reduce Bike Theft
- BART Bicycle Plan, Final Comments
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This Week: Bay Area Families, Housing, Van Ness
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Here is a list of events this week.
BART Staff Opposes Rush Hour Bike Access on Rear Cars
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BART staff has shot down a proposal from Director Robert Raburn to allow commuters to bring bicycles aboard the back cars of rush hour trains. In a memo [pdf] to the BART Board, Executive Planning and Budget Manager Carter Mau recommended maintaining the current policy, which prohibits bicycles aboard its most crowded trains during peak […]
Bike East Bay Celebrates a Half-Century of Advocacy
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If not for the hard work of these folks, there would still be a bike ban on BART, plus a whole bunch of other conditions hostile to cyclists
NIMBYs Fight Glen Park GoBike Station
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Neighborhood objections and fear of lost car parking are tying up a planned bike share rack at the corner of Chenery and Randall Streets
BART Lifts Bike Bans Permanently
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BART has finally dropped its outdated policy of banning bicycles aboard trains during rush hours. After an uneventful four-month trial, the BART Board of Directors voted unanimously this morning to lift the bans permanently. The East Bay Bicycle Coalition tweeted that Robert Raburn, its former executive director and a current BART board member, was “pinching […]
Will the BART Board Take the Sensible Step of Lifting Bike Bans?
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After a second uneventful trial, it’s as clear as ever that BART is due to lift the ban on bikes during rush hours. The BART Board of Directors, which is set to vote on the policy change next week, held a hearing last week on the results of a one-week trial in March, during which […]