Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike East Bay

Oakland’s Telegraph Gets “Pop-up” Protected Bike Lane on Bike to Work Day

By Melanie Curry | May 9, 2014 | 8 Comments

Yesterday, on the Bay Area’s 20th Bike to Work Day, Bike East Bay and Walk Oakland Bike Oakland demonstrated what a block of Telegraph Avenue would look and feel like with a parking-protected bike lane. Without help from the city’s Public Works Department (but with city approval), the two advocacy groups created temporary bike infrastructure by painting green […]

Bike to Work Day: Oakland to Demo Telegraph Protected Bike Lane, Parklet

By Melanie Curry | May 6, 2014 | 4 Comments

A block of Telegraph Avenue in Oakland will get a protected bike lane and parklet for one day — Bike to Work Day, this Thursday. Bike East Bay and Walk Oakland Bike Oakland will set up the demo on the southbound side of Telegraph between 27th and Sycamore Streets, providing a taste of the transformation possible […]

Protected Bike Lanes Key to a Calmer, Thriving Telegraph Avenue in Oakland

By Melanie Curry | Apr 29, 2014 | 7 Comments

At an open house meeting on proposals to redesign Telegraph Avenue in Oakland Saturday morning, attendees arrived to find the street blocked off by police investigating a hit-and-run crash in which a driver killed a pedestrian. The scene underscored the need to make the commercial corridor safer for people walking and biking, though the proposals to […]

Oakland Proposes Parking-Protected Bike Lanes on Telegraph Avenue

By Melanie Curry | Apr 18, 2014 | 4 Comments

The City of Oakland has released preliminary design options [PDF] for a redesign of Telegraph Avenue, which include parking-protected bike lanes, improvements to speed up AC Transit lines, and pedestrian safety upgrades. Planners will hold open house meetings to collect input on the design options starting next week. “We’re very excited they’ve released a lot […]

Packed Meeting About Future of Oakland’s Latham Square Shut Down Early

By Laura McCamy | Nov 22, 2013 | 18 Comments

After public pressure, the City of Oakland held a second community meeting Wednesday about the design of the Latham Square pilot plaza, where a lane of car traffic was reinstated prematurely at the behest of Planning and Building Director Rachel Flynn. Despite a standing room-only crowd of attendees showing up to weigh in, the meeting was […]

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BART Lifts Bike Bans Permanently

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 24, 2013 | 21 Comments

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 […]

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