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First-Ever Sunday Streets Event Transforms Downtown Berkeley
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, climbers scaled a mobile rock wall, and musicians inspired scores to break out in dance. Families took leisurely strolls through streets transformed, while restaurants in North Berkeley's "gourmet ghetto" turned a brisk business. Residents surveyed a demonstration "parklet" that could soon see Berkeley parking spaces transformed into temporary green spaces, and the East Bay Bicycle Coalition showcased plans for a major upgrade to the city's bicycle network at Hearst Avenue.
November 8, 2012
“Browndoggle”? Efforts to Use HSR as Cudgel Against CA Dems Fizzle
"The Browndoggle."
November 8, 2012
East Palo Alto Begins Design Process for Bike/Pedestrian Overcrossing
This is part two of our series on the proposed bike and pedestrian overcrossing in East Palo Alto. You can read part one here.
November 5, 2012
Advocates: San Mateo County Needs Full-Time Bike/Ped Coordinator
Margaret Pye has been bike commuting from San Carlos to her job at a law firm in Palo Alto for the past 10 years. Pedaling home on Middlefield Road through Menlo Park and Atherton, there are bike lanes, but when she gets to North Fair Oaks in unincorporated San Mateo County, the bike lanes suddenly end with no signs indicating where bike riders should go.
November 1, 2012
With Turnover at the Top of C/CAG, an Opportunity for Change in San Mateo
San Mateo County has the third highest rate of driving mileage per capita in the Bay Area, behind Marin and Sonoma counties. Eighty-two percent of residents drive as their primary mode, due in part to a built environment that keeps people stuck in their cars. Low-income and transit-dependent populations who take the bus face dwindling service, while those who ride their bikes and walk face hostile street conditions, enduring dangerous highway overpasses to get to their jobs or school.
October 31, 2012
A Critical Change in Leadership Faces San Mateo County’s Planning Agency
As San Mateo County’s congestion management agency, the City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG), is supposed to be responsible for reducing auto congestion. It also controls the purse strings on transportation projects, doling out millions of dollars in state and federal grants to the region’s 20 cities, whose appointed representatives make up the agency’s governing board.
October 30, 2012
Divided By a Highway, East Palo Alto Looks to Reconnect Its West Side
This is the first in a series of stories on East Palo Alto’s proposed bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing.
October 25, 2012
On the Ballot: A Key to Alameda County’s Sustainable Transportation Future
Alameda County could usher in a new era of progressive transportation projects if voters pass a proposed half-cent sales tax increase known as Measure B1 on November 6.
October 24, 2012
Berkeley Embraces Its Inaugural Sunday Streets on Car-Free Shattuck Ave
Seventeen blocks of Shattuck Avenue, normally one of Berkeley's most traffic-clogged streets, were filled with an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people walking, biking and skating for the debut of Sunday Streets Berkeley this weekend.
October 15, 2012
SamTrans Poll Shows Strong Support for Tax Measures to Support Caltrain
The Green Caltrain blog has some promising news today for moving Caltrain toward a stable funding solution. Adina Levin from Friends of Caltrain reports:
October 12, 2012