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Preserve Bike and Waterfront Access
Following the Oakland City Council's approval last July of a 64-acre waterfront development project with 3,100 residential units to be built along the Estuary, 25,000 Oakland voters signed a referendum petition asking that this massive waterfront project with numerous policy and environmental effects be put on the ballot for a vote by the electorate. The City Attorney ordered the City Clerk to stop counting ballots. The EBBC seeks bicycle access and safety improvements to, and along, the waterfront and joined the costly lawsuit to overturn the City Attorney's ruling and restart the process. Recent court rulings are in our favor.
Please review the contribution appeal from the "Oak to Ninth Referendum Committee," PO Box 20355, Oakland, CA 94620 or visit www.ABetterOakToNinth.org.
Thursday, May 17 is the Bay Area's 13th annual Bike to Work Day, a celebration presented by 511 and Webcor Builders that promotes bicycling as a healthy, fun, and viable form of transportation. From new or leisure cyclists to bicycle hot-shots, we want to honor every kind of bicyclist out there during May, National Bike Month. In addition to the day's events we are hosting two additional activities to honor cyclists. The Team Bike Challenge has teams compete for the most days traveled by bicycle during the month of May. The team with the most points wins a grand prize. The Bike Commuter of the Year Award honors a resident from each county who is committed to making every day a Bike to Work Day. This person epitomizes and actualizes the health, environmental, social, and economic benefits of bicycling.
Enter to win on Bike to Work Day! Visit 511.org for raffle prizes and other bike related information.
BTWD is also the year's best opportunity to promote the bike commute and get decision makers focused on the benefits of bicycling. EBBC will be coordinating events throughout Alameda County. Interested in volunteering? Contact EBBC Vice-Chair Dave Campbell.
Bicycles for Humanity
A bike can change a life in a poor country. Yet for millions of people on the lowest incomes, a new bicycle is financially out of reach. Meanwhile, 10 million bikes a year are sent to landfill sites and millions more perfectly good bicycles lay unused in garages and basements everywhere. Every bicycle has a story and passing the bike on to others to continue that bike's story and the lives it impacts is far better than it slowly decaying in a landfill site. Learn more about Bicycles for Humanity, an organization seeking to match unwanted bikes with needy recipients.
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BikeAlameda Spring Cycling Safety School
You know how to ride a bike--now learn to drive one.
Sharing the road is tough. Negotiating left turns can be difficult. High-speed arterials are a major obstacle. Visibility at night is low. Motorists are in a hurry.
Street Skills is a bicycle safety class for experienced and beginning
cyclists, bike commuters, parents who bike with their kids, and any
cyclist who wants to get around town safely. You'll enjoy cycling
more when you are comfortable riding in traffic.
Click for more information about classes in March-May.
AB 1358, The Complete Streets Act
Sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition, and authored by SF Assemblymember Mark Leno, AB 1358, The Complete Streets Act, would require jurisdictions to write routine accommodation provision into the circulation element of general plans.
Please support AB 1358! Learn more at calbike.org.
Witnesses Sought
 On Saturday July 29th 2006, approximately 250 feet south of the Shepherd Canyon Rd./Skyline Blvd./Pinehurst Rd. intersection in the Oakland Hills around 3:30pm bicyclist Ed Weiss was stuck and killed by a motorcycle. Ed was riding his bicycle south in his lane. If you saw two Sportbike or Ninja type motorcycles in the area, one Black and one Orange, and have any information on this fatal crash or information on the motorcyclist(s) involved please contact Officer W. Wong, Oakland Police Department at 510.777.8551 or email.
NEW:- To ensure that Ed's case is prosecuted by the Alameda County DA, if you live in Alameda County, please write and either mail or fax your own short yet sincere comments on how prosecution of the case can make Alameda County streets and roads safer for bicycling. Urge your friends and members of bicycling clubs that reside in Alameda County to write the DA. More information and a sample letter.
- One of the very first witnesses at the scene on 7/29 was a woman cyclist, evidently a doctor, who helped Ed
and then left the scene. The Police did not give her name. If you know this person, please have her
contact OPD at 510.777.8551.
A concerned resident on Skyline, Bennett Hall, has put together a tremendous website that includes photos of the crash scene.
Volunteer opportunities
EBBC needs the help of our members to accomplish our mission.
Click for more details. If interested, please contact Rick Rickard by email or phone at 510-482-5968.
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