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Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Partially Back in Oakland’s Telegraph Ave Plan

By Melanie Curry | Nov 26, 2014 | 16 Comments

If all goes according to plan, Oakland could get its first parking-protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue next spring. The final draft of the Telegraph plan was released this week, and previously-dropped parking-protected bike lanes were re-introduced in downtown Oakland, between 20th and 29th streets. Buffered bike lanes are planned on the block south of […]

New Planning-Savvy Advocacy Group Pushes for a People-Friendly Oakland

By Melanie Curry | Oct 13, 2014 | 11 Comments

A group of planning-savvy Oakland residents and workers has formed Transport Oakland to advocate for sustainable transportation and livable streets. With declining car traffic and exciting developments on the way like bike-share and bus rapid transit, the group says the growing East Bay port city could become a people-friendly mecca — given the right leadership. Transport Oakland […]

Oakland Unnecessarily Pits Safe Bicycling vs. Transit on Telegraph Avenue

By Melanie Curry | Sep 19, 2014 | 6 Comments

At two workshops last week in Oakland, attendees overwhelmingly called for a bolder plan to make Telegraph Avenue safer and include protected bike lanes. Oakland planners ditched their original proposals for parking-protected bike lanes, instead proposing buffered, unprotected bike lanes on most of the street. In Temescal, the street’s most dangerous and motor traffic-heavy section, planners insist […]

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 […]

Tonight and Next Week: Open Houses on Oakland’s Telegraph Bike Lanes

By Melanie Curry | Apr 24, 2014 | 10 Comments

Oaklanders won’t want to forget about the city’s open house meetings, starting tonight, on proposals for parking-protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue. Show up, learn about the proposed design options, and let city staff know what you think will make this vital commercial corridor safer and more efficient, and livable. There will even be food trucks […]

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 […]

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