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Walk Oakland Bike Oakland's mission is to improve neighborhood quality of life by making walking and biking in Oakland safe, easy, accessible and fun.
Become Part of Team WOBO for TransForm's Car-Free Challenge!
How few miles do you think you can drive in one month?
Join Walk Oakland Bike Oakland in taking the Car-Free Challenge in June to find out! We're putting together a team of folks who are setting and reaching personal low-mileage goals for the month of June (some are going car-free, others are trying to drive a little less). Together we'll send a message to our leaders that we need better walking, biking, and transit options in order to fight climate change and make our communities better places to live.
We'll also raise needed funds for our work and the work of TransForm, a nonprofit we're partnered with to improve walking, biking, and transit options. Each person who takes the Challenge sets a fundraising goal, and whatever money people on our team raise gets split 50/50 between WOBO and TransForm. Plus, you can win great prizes!
Visit our team page to see what we're up to and how others are taking the Challenge. We hope you’ll join us in driving less and living more!
Visit TransFormCA.org to for more info on the Car-Free Challenge!
Request a Bike Rack!
You may have heard that the City recently installed over 360 bike racks in Oakland’s commercial districts, most to replace parking meters. What you may not know is that they still have a small amount of racks left and they're looking for suggestions on where to install them. Here's your chance to ask for a bike rack in a much-needed spot!Submit your bike rack location requests to the City using their online form. Note that racks can only be installed on a City-owned right-of-way (mostly sidewalks) in commercial districts and cannot be installed in AC Transit red zones, too close to light poles and other obstructions, etc. Check out the City’s rack placement guidelines (.pdf) here. Questions? Contact the City’s Bicycle & Pedestrian Facilities Coordinator at (510) 238-3983 or email bikeped@oaklandnet.com.
Victory! New Bike Parking Racks in Oakland
When a Finance and Management Agency project replaced over 4,400 on-street parking meters with 'pay and display' parking kiosks last year, this dealt a blow to bike parking.Thankfully, some bike parking has now been re-added. The Transportation Services Division installed 361 new bike parking racks accommodating 776 bikes, most of them in Oakland's main commercial districts. Racks were installed in the Dimond, Fruitvale/International, Rockridge, Piedmont Ave, Grand Lake, Old Oakland, Montclair, Pill Hill/Central, Chinatown, Uptown, and Downtown areas of Oakland.
Did they miss a spot? The City has a small quantity of additional racks in stock to address ongoing requests. Please submit your location suggestions to bikeped (at) oaklandnet.com or complete their Online Bike Rack Request Form.
These two photos are a 'before' and 'after': the headless meter with an 'x' on the sidewalk (marking where the new rack was to be installed) and the new rack installed and in use.
Broadway Bike Corridor Campaign:
Connect North Oakland to Downtown
Join us as we push the City Council to install bike lanes on Broadway (north of 40th Street) and the Webster-Franklin couplet to connect a safe, quick, convienent, contiguous north-south bike route. Click here to check out our new interactive campaign map and send an email to the City Council. Plus, we need volunteer help with the following:Outreach
· Flyering parked bikes
· Flyering riders on Broadway or Webster
· Tabling at events
· Recruiting businesses to sign on to campaign letter
· Representing WOBO at meetings of neighborhood groups
Research
· Inventorying all neighborhood groups/business organizations potentially affected
· Researching development projects along Broadway
· Conducting an inventory of institutions/entities (e.g. schools along broadway, AC transit)
· Identifying neighborhood newsletters and adding the Broadway campaign message
· Developing speaking points for neighborhood meetings and City Council hearings
To volunteer, email Alicia (at) WalkOaklandBikeOakland.org.
Join WOBO Today!
Join WOBO as a member for just $35, and not only will you be part of the movement to make Oakland a better place to walk and bike, but you'll also get:· Discounts at select shoe & bicycle shops (5-15% off)
· WOBO's e-newsletter
· Special invitations to WOBO events, and
· A Walk Oakland Bike Oakland map
Plus, for a contribution of $50 or more, we'll send you a swanky WOBO t-shirt!
Whether for yourself or someone else, getting a WOBO membership is the gift of a better, safer, more bike-and-pedestrian-friendly Oakland. You can get an Individual or Household WOBO Membership by visiting this page.
Victory! City Funds Bicycle/Pedestrian Engineering Position
WOBO secures boost to bike & pedestrian city staffOn Monday November 3, City Council voted to add a dedicated staff engineer to the bicycle and pedestrian unit. Sounds modest, and it is. But without this addition, countless bike projects would be missed without the proper design complete. The position should be filled early in 2009, with the benefits coming in the months after.
WOBO has been working on this issue for over two years, and securing $100,000 annually to fund this position is a big boost to the city's capacity to implement the bicycle and pedestrian plans!
To send a message of thanks to the City Council, click here
Victory! New Stoplight on Harrison by Westlake Middle School
WOBO members have been active working with the City to make 27th St. and Harrison safer for school children, seniors, residents, and shoppers at the new Whole Foods. WOBO thanks Councilmember Nadel for committing funds to install a new stoplight on Harrison between Whole Foods and the Westlake Middle School. Along with the Westlake Community Coalition, the HarriOak Neighborhood, St. Pauls Tower residents and Westlake Middle School parents and First Congregational Church, WOBO is seeking additional improvements to reduce speeding and improve safety in the area. WOBO thanks all who joined us in recognizing Councilmember Nancy Nadel at the Traffic Light Celebration on April 28th, 2008.
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