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WOBO

WOBO works to improve neighborhood quality of life in Oakland by making walking and bicycling safe, accessible, easy and fun.

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The Word on the Street
December 2007
City Council Passes the Bike Plan! 

Quick Links             

Email WOBO            

  • Want to Volunteer? 
  • Want to get involved in your neighborhood?
  • Is there a particular issue that you have in mind?
  • Interested in joining the WOBO Board of Directors?
  • We're looking to expand the issues that we're working on and get more folks involved. 
  • Here are just a few things other things on our radar that we'd like to tackle:
    • Urban Bike Safety Classes
    • Advocating for specific bike lane or pedestrian safety projects.
  • We can't do it without you!

Donate to WOBO       

  • WOBO is run entirely on volunteer power.
  • We're efficient and effective and 100% of donations go into  public outreach materials and programs to make Oakland more walkable and bikeable.
  • You care about Oakland, right?  WOBO does too!  Let's make it even more fantastic.

 

 

 

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Contact your Oakland Councilmember and thank them for passing the Bike Plan and tell them to fund implementation

Big bicycle victory!! At the City Council meeting on December 4th, Oakland ’s City Council approved the new Bicycle Master Plan. The plan envisions 220 miles of bikeways (paths, lanes or routes) to be added to the existing network of 87 miles. Check it out!
 
Email WOBO now to let us know what routes are most important to you, so we can begin to advocate for your priorities.
The next big hurdle: getting this bicycle heaven implemented. Two dedicated staff are just not enough to make this plan a reality (San Francisco has thirteen Bicycle and Pedestrian planning staff). While four council members have gone on the record in support of back-filling an existing bike-ped position, funding for the position was removed from the budget last year. Please contact your City Councilperson to ask them to fund the bicyle planning position at the mid-cycle budget review! 
Don't know who your Councilmember is?  Click here to find Your Councilperson.

- District 1: Jane Brunner jbrunner@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7001

- District 2: Patricia Kernighan pkernighan@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7002

- District 3: Nancy Nadel nnadel@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7003

- District 4: Jean Quan jquan@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7004

- District 5: Ignacio De La Fuente idelafuente@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7005

- District 6: Desley Brooks dbrooks@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7006

- District 7: Larry Reid lreid@oaklandnet.com (510)238.7007

- At large: Henry Chang cityochang@aol.com

- City Administrator: Deborah Edgerly citymanager@oaklandnet.com (510)   238.3301

- Mayor: Ron Dellums officeofthemayor@oaklandnet.com (510)238.3141

Make the Caldecott Tunnel Bike Accessible

Join WOBO and other community groups with a by donating as we challenge the environmental document that paves the way for a fourth Caldecott Tunnel on Highway 24.  WOBO is raising funds to financially support the 4th Bore Coalition in order to secure better conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians needed due to increased auto traffic associated with this project.  If a On key Oakland roads like Broadway and Telegraph, there will be more cars heading to the expanded freeway.  We must ensure  Oakland's bicycle and pedestrian needs are addressed through this process.  Donate today and note "No 4th Bore!"

A Station Wagon...Bike?  Here come the Bakfiets! Bakfiets (plural: "bakfietsen") came out of the Netherlands -- thus the funny name, which means "wagon bike" (and can be shortened to simply "BAK"). But bakfietsen are now available in the United States, through Clever Cycles, a distributor and retailer in Portland, OR. There are also plans to manufacture a lower-cost, American-made version of the bakfiets in NE Portland. And, apparently there has been a version called the "Long Haul", made in Eugene, Oregon (already American-made!) for some time now.

 

 

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 Walk Oakland Bike Oakland  |  (510) 269-4034  |  P.O. Box 10945  |  Oakland, CA 94610 

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