Roger Rudick

Latest round of 'Safe Routes to BART' program includes $16 million for bike and ped improvements leading to and from BART stations

City College talks a good game about supporting bike lanes and better transit, until it comes to losing a few parking spaces

Megan Wier, OakDOT Assistant Director, will step in to run the agency starting March 11

Here is a list of events this week.

Correction, 3/27 - the headline of an earlier version of this story indicated that "Oakland" ripped out the bike lane. Streetsblog spoke directly with the man pictured in the lead image who identified himself and his crew as independent contractors working for "the city." Streetsblog has since learned that the crew was actually working for the Port of Oakland, which apparently has jurisdiction over this section of street. While Port operations are separate from the city bureaucracy, the Port's Commissioners are appointed by the mayor and the Oakland City Councilmembers (for four-year terms).

Plus other recent developments in the ongoing center-running bike lane drama

Here is a list of events this week.

But there's no clear indication of whether or not the center-running lane is actually safer

It's time for a reality check in the wake of mayoral candidate Mark Farrell's comment about allowing private cars back on Market Street

Safety considerations should never be put to a community vote... but they were