Every ZIP Code along Hopkins has majority support for expanding bike infrastructure. Every district along Hopkins voted for Measure FF (which funds paving + bike infrastructure) and against Measure EE (which promised paving without bike infrastructure). This isn't a culture war; it's consensus.

#AB2346 is being heard by the CA Assembly Transportation Committee later today. The proposed 5 mph sidewalk speed limit (for all users) has been adjusted to 10 mph, & the proposed 15 mph speed limit for users of protected bikeways has been removed. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...

It's time for our annual Bay Bridge ride! Join us April 25: we're meeting up at West Oakland BART at 10:30am, and will roll across the Eastern Span, along the Bay Trial, and end at Sports Basement Berkeley for free pizza & drinks. More info + RSVP bikeeastbay.org/event/bike-e... @railstotrails.org

Make a generous tax deductible donation here to help fund Oakland’s historic Camron-Stanford House repairs, following this week’s fire: www.cshouse.org/fundraiser

Time to kick my campaign for the Golden Gate Velodrome into high gear. www.marinij.com/2026/03/31/e...

I've heard some say they know cars are more dangerous, but this doesn't mean e-bikes aren't also a serious issue. This ignores that overly heavy handed regulation of legal e-bikes can result in people eschewing them altogether & driving more instead, resulting in net safety reductions for everyone.

The Victorian at Lake Merritt had recently reopened to the public after a year and a half closure over a lease dispute with the city.

I get a lot more engagement here on Bluesky than I did on Twitter with 10x the followers. IMO the bots & trolls weren’t a value add.

If anyone wants to watch the recording that this is from, you can find it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=51dq...

2 other dates to save: - We're hosting a Bike Month Kick-off Party 4/30 from 4-7pm at Berkeley BART bikeeastbay.org/event/bike-m... - The Bike Happy Hour in Old Oakland will be 5/14 from 5-7:30pm bikeeastbay.org/event/old-oa...

Check out the latest episode of @bikeeastbay.bsky.social's #BikesideChat podcast, where I interview Lucy Gigli on the history & development of the amazing Cross Alameda Trail. Then head to @cityofalameda.bsky.social to bike it yourself! bikeeastbay.org/podcast/ @bikewalkalameda.bsky.social

Berkeley City Councilmember Lunaparra will go down in city history for overseeing the transition of Southside Telegraph into a low carbon, sustainable urban neighborhood. She had the politics of Zohran Mamdani before Zohran came onto the scene: a leftist urbanist. www.dailycal.org/news/city/ci...

We are proud to announce our 2026 bill package to make our communities more walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented. Here’s what we’ve got going on in Sacramento this year:

wowowow! #oakland finally did something to deter those unpermitted food vendors (open flames blasting out of a prius trunk, no joke), and the double-parkers who would then block intersection visibility and the northbound bus on broadway. and it's already being used as a mini bike lane!

🚸 Help Shape a Safer Pleasanton 🚸 Learn about + give input on the Transportation Safety Action Plan (PTSAP)! 2 virtual options this week: Tues & Thurs from 6-7pm 🔗 Virtual meeting info: bit.ly/TransportationSafetyActionPlanCommunityMeeting2

If a new tax doesn’t pass in November, one plan would cut service to two-thirds of pre-pandemic levels. Bus lines that serve fewer people, such as the 281, 19, 251, and 56, are on the chopping block.

If you enjoy walking, biking, or exploring the Delta de Anza Trail, the City of Pittsburg wants your ideas. Take a quick survey and tell them how they can make the trail better, safer, & more enjoyable. Surveys: English: 511cc.org/deltaeng Spanish: 511cc.org/deltaesp

We launched a bike bus in San Pablo! We spent months relationship-building, hosting bilingual workshops, and getting free bike repair so folks would be ready to ride. We'd love to do more! If you'd like to sustain this type of work, join our Monthly Giving Circle at BikeEastBay.org/MonthlyGiving

Join me on April 25th to ride & celebrate the beautiful Bay Bridge east span pathway & raise awareness for the need to complete the connection to SF! bikeeastbay.org/event/bike-e...

A Bay Bridge bike ride on April 25 seeks to breathe life back into a cherished dream of cyclists and pedestrians. But the price tag has grown to $700 million.

Oakland’s first new separated bikeway of 2026 is ready to ride. Only 1 block of post-separation on 17th from Brush to Castro, but it’s a start. Lots more on the way for 2026!

Ugh nevermind, Papan's AB 1557 has now been amended to reduce the speed cap to 16 mph for both Class 1 (pedal assist, currently 20 mph speed cap) & Class 2 (throttle assist, currently 20 mph cap) e-bikes. Imagine if legislators cared this much about 4 mph speed differences for driver of 2 ton+ cars

Applications to California’s Active Transportation Program are now open, due by June 22nd. $550M in total is available for bike/walk projects, w 50% ($275M) through the statewide program & 40% to local planning orgs, incl $53M for local projects here in the Bay Area. catc.submittable.com/submit

The Bay is at risk of losing BART. Caltrain also faces major cuts -- but there is an army of volunteers working to get the signatures needed to put a transit funding measure on the ballot that'd keep our system going. Learn more missionlocal.org/2026/03/bart... and join here connectbayarea.com

Here’s the “parallel” bikeway proposal Oakland will study this year between 23rd & 42nd Aves. Converting car parking or the center turn lane on Foothill Blvd to enable a bikeway there was deemed infeasible, despite it being a high injury corridor in need of significant design fixes.

Tailpipe pollution is half of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet transportation dollars fund highway widening on US 101 & SR 37. We can shift the narrative toward bikeways, pedestrian amenities, and smarter spending. transformca.org/californias-...

The car parking increase via this East Bay Parks project at Tidewater Park is going to make bike/walk access even harder. The only access from the north is via Tidewater Ave, a private street w no bikeway or sidewalk, & the shoreline Bay Trail stops at High St. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

The e-bike involved in this tragedy was reported as a Magnum Cosmo. Here is a video from a company rep explaining how the bike classification & speed can be changed in the menu settings. This is not a thing in CA, e-bike classifications are not legally changeable. www.instagram.com/reel/DJEvK27...

Op-Ed: Don’t Let Fear Flatten Progress on E-Bikes - sf.streetsblog.org/2026/03/20/o...

Okay so like I said, why is the department blocking bike lanes in the flatlands for fire safety when the number one obstacle to stopping wild fires in Berkeley is street parking in the hills?

54 years ago Bike East Bay (then East Bay Bicycle Coalition) was born partly in response to the launch of BART w no bike access. Multi-modal is in our DNA! Then in 1973-74 the oil embargo & related spike in energy costs helped compel even further organization around bike advocacy. Sound familiar?

It's our 54th birthday today!🎂 On March 20, 1972, a group of "hard core, spark plug bike enthusiasts" met and would form East Bay Bicycle Coalition. We've grown so much since then, but some things never change. We love how this invite highlighted arrival by bike and car parking was an asterisk.

The last one was a pre post post. Now this one is a post post post.

Some people are acting like there’s a huge distinction between e-bike classifications w an 8 mph speed differential. Meanwhile our state’s speed camera program won’t even ticket drivers until they’re going 11 mph over the limit. Never mind that cars have no speed limiter & most can reach 100mph+.

Tonight Emeryville City Council voted to move the 40th/Shellmound forward to construction! Work will hopefully start before the end of 2026 & continue for 2 years. Thank you to everyone who wrote in and spoke up in support!

Oakland police are the highest paid staff members for the whole city. So this residency imbalance also results in a huge siphoning of Oakland’s budget out to other wealthier jurisdictions through property taxes, sales taxes, etc.

90% of Oakland police do not live in Oakland, over 75% don't even live in Alameda County. Almost as many live in San Joaquin County as do Oakland

New bike lane striping on 18th/17th Streets in Oakland going in this week, Market to MLK Jr Way. The section over 980 in the second photo will get post separation in the buffer space.

@sacbee.com is doing an amazing job lambasting the state & Gov Newsom for cuts to the already immensely over-subscribed Active Transportation Program, delaying critical bike/walk safety projects that will certainly cost dozens of lives. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t... www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

“Repaving [Hopkins] without bicycle safety upgrades violates past votes, ignores adopted city plans and community input, and leaves a dangerous street. It would be a waste of public money and a missed opportunity to make Hopkins safe for everyone.”-Ben Gerhardstein sf.streetsblog.org/2026/03/13/w...

East & West coast American, Dutch, and British bike people on biking against fascism, across America, in a hostile NJ, and with cars, of course @bikeleague.org @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @urbancyclinginstitute.org m.soundcloud.com/biketalk/26-...

Our policy team continues to be hard at work ensuring the future of Minnesota is one with greater transportation freedom and safer streets and trails. Read the latest on our bipartisan work at the legislature! ⤵️⤵️⤵️

Bay Area! The next Car Free Happy Hour is Wednesday, March 18, 5:30pm Arthur Mac’s Little Snack (Bay Street) 5614 Bay Street, Level 2, Emeryville Accessible via: - AC Transit lines 57, F, 36, 22 - Emery Go-Round - MacArthur BART (2 miles) - BayWheels bike share See ya then!

Real civic action: kids in our bike crew helped mark and report potholes to the City for the #PotholeChallenge. OakDOT fixed them up so we can all have smoother riding. Real civic action: kids in our bike crew helped mark and report potholes to the City. Fixed now 😎 youtube.com/shorts/0GCWg...

Yes! Finally, some California e-bike legislation that gets it! Thank you Assemblymember Papan & Senator Blakespear for being voices of reason in this space! www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/13/o... @calbike.bsky.social @peopleforbikes.bsky.social @bikeleague.org

New action alert— this time for Emeryville's 40th Street Cycletrack. The final FINAL vote is set for next Tues. There are great improvements (2-way protected biking, dedicated bus lanes, paratransit pick up zones, etc) but ofc: pushback. Learn more/email comments at bikeeastbay.org/event/final-...

The location where Oakland's speed cameras have logged the highest number of warnings so far is this school zone on 73rd Ave, to drivers averaging 44 mph. Oakland DOT currently has a center median bike path proposal for this street, but w/o any fundamental traffic calming for the car travel lanes.

City of Berkeley celebrated finishing daylighting all intersections today! We pushed for this important safety effort and are grateful that the City got it done so quickly! @berkeleyca.gov

@cityofoakland.bsky.social has been closing out a ton of pothole reports over the last few weeks, & all the ones I've checked on so far (like these at 7th/Washington) were indeed filled. One at Grizzly Peak/Claremont was fixed in just a few days. Have you seen any recent fills in your neighborhood?