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Bicycle Advocacy Organizations
Bay Area
Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Coalition, dedicated to improving bicycling in Berkeley, California and EBBC's sister organization
Bay Area Bicycle Coalition
BikeAlameda
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC)
Marin County Bicycle Coalition
Beyond
California Bicycle Coalition, protecting the rights and promoting the interests of California's bicyclists
CA Association of Bicycling Organizations (CABO)
Thunderhead Alliance, the national coalition of state and local bicycle advocacy organizations working in unison to break down the barriers to safe bicycling in American communities
League of American Bicyclists, protecting the rights and promoting the interests of bicyclists nationwide
National Center for Biking and Walking
Bicycle Civil Liberties Union
Bicycle Austin (Texas)
Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition (Canada)
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Other Relevant Advocacy Organizations
Transportation and Land Use Coaliton
Greenbelt Alliance
Urban Ecology
California Walks
California Surface Transportation Policy Project
BAYSTEP, SF Bay Area Pedestrian Education Group
Liveable Berkeley, a broad-based organization that advocates smart growth and sustainable development in Berkeley, California
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Local Bike Clubs (also see our Go For a Ride page)
Cherry City Cyclists
Diablo Cyclists
Different Spokes, Derek Liecty, (510) 339-2345
Fremont Freewheelers
Grizzly Peak Cyclists
Oakland YellowJackets
Sierra Club, Doug Baker, (510) 658-5941
Golden Gate Cyclists
Strada Sempre Duro
Valley Spokesmen
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Bicycle Education Programs
Cycles of Change, East Bay youth bicycle education
Bay Area Bicycle Classes
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Touring Links
Trento Bike Pages, an essential planning guide for European excursions, containing links to web pages made by bike tourists. Highly recommended.
Cycle touring in Spain, biking along the Mediterranean coast, the Pyrenees, and Gibralter.
South
America Bicycle Touring Links
British Columbia/Alaska Cycle Touring FAQ, contains all the info you need for bicycle touring in the Yukon
www.bitrot.de/bike.html,
describes tours in California and Europe
www.bikechina.com Cycling in
China
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Safety (also see "Controversy")
Ken Kifer's Bicycle Traffic Safety pages
Bicycling Street Smarts: Riding Confidently, Legally and Safely
Bicycle Safe, How to Not Get Hit by Cars
Bay Area Bicycle Classes
Physics and Bicycling
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Donating Bikes
Tinker's Workshop at the Berkeley Center for Appropriate Transportation (BCAT), 1336 Channing, 510-644-2577. Dave Campbell, Chair of BFBC, can be found at the BCAT on most days (cell: 510-701-5971).
Cycles of Change, a youth adventure and earn-a-bike program headed by Maya Carson and Barry Luck, 510-451-6304, cyclesofchange@yahoo.com. You can drop off bikes at several locations; see website for details.
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 Bicycling to Work and Shop
Build fitness and fun into your day by commuting to work and doing your shopping on your bike. Biking, rather than driving, to work even once or twice a week, has a huge beneficial impact on Bay Area air quality. If you've never biked to work before, the annual Bike-to-Work Day, (always in May), is an excellent time to start.
Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips, (Paul is a former director of the California Bicycle Coalition)
511.org, Bay Area Bike Commuting Resources, including advice, links to transit, and more
Wet Weather Riding, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, includes a variety of important info including bike security, access to transit agency's bike policies, and more
Bikes at Work Inc., bike trailers, pedicabs, and more
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Bicycle Maintenance
Tool Tips for Bicycle Maintenance and Repair
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Bicycle Facilities
bikestation.org, membership-based secure bike parking; Berkeley, Palo Alto, Long Beach, Seattle
bikeparking.com, bike racks and lockers, sales and installation
Noiseways.org, compares noise levels for various bike/ped spaces in the New York City area.
Fujitec, the Amazing automated bicycle parking garage
Bike lanes pros and cons, from BicycleUniverse.info
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Planning and Policy
EBBC's Model Charter for Bicycle Advisory Committees (Word .doc)
Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems; great studies about bicycling, transit, and the costs of non-sustainable transportation
MTC Resolution 875, (.pdf format, 169k, 19 pages), legislation enabling the formation of Bicycle Advisory Committees (BACs)
Transportation and Land Use Coaltion (Bay Area)
Caltrans Deputy Directive-64, (from the California Bicycle Coalition website); a policy that directs engineers and planners to integrate bicycling and walking when making road improvements
USDOT design guidance document, for integrating biking and walking into transportation projects
Caltrans Design Manual, with bike design in Chapter 10
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Passenger Rail Issues
Bikes and trains - Multimodal transport.
Caltrain and bike capacity problems on the Baby Bullets.
BART-San Jose extension - the VTA's plan to spend over $4 billion on a rail line which could have been built for a mere $50 million.
The FRA Must Be Destroyed! - How a little known Federal agency is regulating passenger rail out of existence.
TramTrain - Light-rail using heavy-rail infrastructure.
Architecture 21 - Why CA High Speed rail needs to go through the Altamont Pass.
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Transit
Note: The transitinfo.org web site that used to provide coordinated transit
info for the entire Bay Area no longer exists. It was replaced (at great expense) by the buggy 511.org. Thus, most
individual transit operators continue to maintain their own web pages.
Regional Map of Transit Operators (2mb .pdf file)
ACE - Altamont Commuter Express (Stockton-Livermore-Fremont-San Jose rail service)
AC Transit
Alameda/Oakland Ferry - Ferry service to San Francisco
Alameda/Harbor Bay - San Francisco Ferry
Amtrak - Main web site
Amtrak Capitol Corridor (Sacramento-Oakland-San Jose rail service)
Amtrak San Joaquins - Rail service from the East Bay to the Central Valley and Los Angeles
BART
Caltrain
CountyConnection - Contra Costa County bus service
Dumbarton Express
Emery Go-Round - Shuttle service connecting MacArthur BART and Emeryville.
Golden Gate Transit (GGT 40/42 bike-accessible buses are the only way for cyclists to legally cross the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge)
Green Tortoise
Greyhound Bus
Menocino County Transit
Santa Clara VTA - Operates express buses from Fremont BART, Silicon Valley, and Santa Cruz
Sonoma County Transit
Tri-delta Transit
Vallejo Transit - Provides Vallejo-BART express bus
WestCat - Western Contra Costa County
Yosemite Transit (YARTS) - Leave the car at home and use the Yosemite Park shuttle bus service instead
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Car-Free Cities
Car Busters
Ecocity Builders, a non-profit organization dedicated to reshaping cities, towns and villages for long term health of human and natural systems
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Local Resources/Issues
Regional
Local Bicycle Advisory Committees
South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project will expand the Bay Trail in Fremont, Newark, and Hayward.
"MOVING COSTS"--A Transportation Funding Guide for the SF Bay Area, a publication of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority
"511.org", the Bay Area's new transit resource (formerly transitinfo.org) with schedules, maps and other information about public transit in the San Francisco Bay Area
511.org's bicycling pages
East Bay Regional Parks District, with trail maps of all the East Bay regional parks
Proposed Bike/Pedestrian Path Designs for the Bay Bridge:
As a service to several Bay Area bike advocacy groups, architect/engineer
Steven Grover has prepared graphical renderings and text assessments
of several configuration alternatives for the proposed Bay Bridge
Oakland Bay Bridge Forum
The Bay Trail
2002 Silicon Valley Bike Map, (.pdf, requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
Alameda County
Oakland Estuary Plan Online version of the Draft Oakland Estuary Plan
Contra Costa County
coming soon!
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Alameda and CoCo County Cities with Bike Info on Their Websites
Alameda County
Berkeley
Fremont
Oakland
Fremont
Contra Costa County
Concord (safety)
Lafayette
Walnut Creek
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Science and Fun
The Exploratorium's Science of Cycling
The Cycling Dude, a Santa Ana cyclist's blog, featuring observations and a great list of links
Bike Reader, a Rider's digest
Warrington Cycle Campaign's Cycle Facility of the Month, a laugh-out-loud photo journal of bad bicycle facility implementation
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Controversy!
Mandatory Helmet Laws - Ken Kifer's thoughts on bike helmets
Helmet FAQ - Do they
really reduce head injuries? Answer: Probably not.
cyclehelmets.org - internationally, helmet use does not correlate with cyclist safety, with much discussion and data
Stops should be Yields for Cyclists; This is already the case in Idaho and Montana . . .
"Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs" (.pdf format), " . . . an officially designated bike route [a bike boulevard]
in Berkeley, California Street . . . is about 2.25 miles long and nearly
flat (average grade 0.5 percent). Traffic is very light, which is nice
for cyclists. But California Street has 21 stop signs and a traffic
light. More than two-thirds of the route's 31 intersections require a
stop-that's one every 530 feet. A parallel route, Sacramento Street,
runs one block west of California Street . . . has only eight traffic
lights along the section parallel to California's bike route, and no
stop signs."
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