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At Long Last, Berkeley Gets an Updated Bike Plan

By Melanie Curry | May 3, 2017 | 2 Comments

At close to midnight last night, the Berkeley City Council unanimously approved the Berkeley Bike Plan, which seeks to build a network of safe, connected bikeways throughout the city to encourage more people to ride bikes.

Proposed East Bay Bike-Share Sites Announced

By Melanie Curry | Apr 25, 2016 | 49 Comments

Note: This story has been corrected since it was originally posted. Thank you to sharp-eyed readers. Bay Area Bike Share released a map of proposed sites for bike-share stations in the East Bay today. Proposed sites for expansion into San Francisco and San Jose have already been released, but these are the first ones for […]

Berkeley Advocates Win Agreement for Long-Delayed Bike Lanes

By Melanie Curry | Mar 16, 2016 | 13 Comments

At a packed meeting last night, the Berkeley City Council approved a project to bring a long-delayed bike lane to Fulton Street, the site of a recent collision that seriously injured a cyclist. The section of road where the crash occurred is where a bike lane disappears, forcing bicyclists to merge into traffic. The city’s […]

Berkeley Bike Station Contract Extended — For Now

By Melanie Curry | Jun 27, 2014 | 3 Comments

Buried in Tuesday evening’s Berkeley City Council agenda was a resolution to extend the contract on the Downtown Berkeley Bike Station for one more year, at its current terms. The station moved to its current street-level storefront location in the historic Shattuck Hotel building in 2010 after extensive renovations to the former retail space, and […]

Despite Broad Support, Sunday Streets Berkeley Can’t Grow Without Funding

By Laura McCamy | Oct 18, 2013 | 2 Comments

In its second iteration, Sunday Streets Berkeley flooded Shattuck Avenue with an estimated 50,000 people last weekend in an even more powerful demonstration of the draw of closing streets to cars and opening them up to people. Since the first event one year ago, political support seems to have only grown, and attendance once again […]

Berkeley City Council Hesitates to Fund More Sunday Streets Events

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 25, 2013 | 9 Comments

Berkeley residents are clamoring for more street openings following the city’s first Sunday Streets event last October, where an estimated 43,000 people enjoyed 17 car-free blocks of Shattuck Avenue. But the Berkeley City Council has been hesitant to make a full commitment to bring back the events on a regular basis. Livable Berkeley, the sponsor of […]

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