Robert Prinz
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SPUR: San Jose’s Biking and Dining Tour de Taste
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From SPUR: This event will take place in San Jose. With its incredibly diverse population, San Jose is home to an abundance of amazing cuisines and fantastic flavors. Join SPUR and Dishcrawl for an afternoon of biking and dining as we travel San Jose’s new bike lanes to visit four different restaurants and sample each […]
SFBC Presentation: Learning Actively from Copenhagen’s Bicycling Successes
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From SFBC: Join us for a special forum on livable communities, featuring Andreas Røhl, Copenhagen’s esteemed Bicycle Manager. Together, we’ll explore issues of creating more sustainable cities, and learn about the successes and challenges of one of the world’s most bicycle-friendly cities. Røhl has spent much of the last year in Vancouver, Canada, helping step […]
SF Parks Alliance: Blue Greenway Open House
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From bluegreenway.org: Join San Francisco Parks Alliance as we showcase concept designs for the Blue Greenway and Pier 70 Open Space Projects. This is the culminating presentation of SFPA’s Blue Greenway Area Wide Planning Project. Click here for Flier
Hillegass/Ashby Bicycle Boulevard Crossing Walkthrough in Berkeley
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From EBBC: As part of the City’s diligent work to implement the publicly approved list of bike/ped projects that are mitigation for the Caldecott Tunnel 4th Bore Project, plans are underway to design a safe crossing of Ashby Ave at the Hillegass Bicycle Boulevard and at College Ave. If you can help, we need your […]
40th Street Parklet Ribbon Cutting in Oakland
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From EBBC: Celebrate the completion of the parklet with Manifesto Bicycles, Subrosa Coffee & the whole 40th Street neighborhood! Pizza by Hot Italian Beer by Linden Street Music by the 29th Street Swingtet Sloth Tees by J.Otto Seibold Raffle for prizes from 40th Street merchants: Marquee Salon, 1-2-3-4 Go! Records, Homeroom, Manifesto & Oakland Floats
EBBC: Free Bike Lights Giveaway in Downtown Oakland
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From EBBC: On November 5th, Election Day-Eve AND the first night after Daylight Savings, we are partnering with the City of Oakland to hand out 115 FREE Planet Bike light sets (front and rear) at an undisclosed location! All we can say at this point is that we will be at a popular intersection for bicyclists, somewhere […]
Greenbelt Alliance Walk: Exploring North Berkeley
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From Greenbelt Alliance: See how Berkeley has changed over time as we meander city streets to experience a wide variety of historic architecture, from grand Victorian villas to unique Maybeck designs. We’ll also explore the area’s unique paths, the Gourmet Ghetto, Codornices Creek, Berkeley Rose Garden, and more. We will be mostly on city sidewalks […]
Greenbelt Alliance Walk: Up a Slough in Mountain View
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From Greenbelt Alliance: Close to 30 years ago, only four miles of bay shoreline were accessible to the public. Today the Mountain View shoreline has a little of everything right in the middle of an urban setting – a lake, many trails, shoreline views, and grassy meadows. We’ll explore the shoreline and learn about development […]
Oakland Urban Paths: Rockridge Ramble
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From Oakland Urban Paths: Join us to climb the many stairs of upper Rockridge, and cross SR 24 via pedestrian bridge. NOTE: This will be a walk with a lot of stairs, and more energetic than some of our walks. Less talking (though still some) and more walking. Dogs OK.
Today’s Headlines
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Muni Ridership Up Over 200 Percent for World Series Games (CityInsider) More on Supe Avalos’ Proposed Permits, Fees for Private Shuttles Using Muni Stops (SFGate) SFExam: Free Muni for Youth Plan is Best Use of One-Time MTC Funds SFPD Officers Allegedly Beat, Jail Well-Known Cyclist for Attempting to Observe Arrest (Uptown Almanac) Bay Bridge Construction […]
Protected Bike Lanes Selected as Preferred Option for 2nd Street Project
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Following a public process that revealed a strong preference for protected bike lanes, the SF Department of Public Works yesterday announced the selection of the preferred option for the Second Street Improvement Project. And yes, the design includes one-way protected bike lanes on each side of the street. The redesign will extend from Market Street to King Street, […]