Berkeley Bikeways

New protected bike lanes are open on Hearst Avenue and Bancroft Way, with thousands enjoying them every day. Next up is Dana Street south of campus and Milvia Street downtown.

Berkeley set a standard when it dedicated two blocks of protected bike lanes on Fulton Street in 2016. They followed that up with an innovative bike plan in 2017 proposing 20 protected bike facilities to safely get residents around town. However, the Plan received much push back because it included the public’s vision for better bicycling in Berkeley, a vision not shared by everyone. Thanks to huge public support, this forward-looking plan got approved and is the City’s basis for pushing forward on modern bikeways for streets such as Adeline, Hopkins, Oxford, Claremont, San Pablo Avenue and more.

Updates

Guide to New Bancroft Way

The new Bancroft Way features a two-way protected bike lane (cycle track) that connects Fulton Street’s protected bike lane to UC Berkeley’s cross-campus bikeways and Dana Street’s bike lane. The new cycle track allows you to bike uphill for the first time on Bancroft Way. Additionally, the new...

East Bancroft Bikeway Extension

Set to come in 2019, the East Bancroft Way project will feature a two-way protected bike lane that will connect the Bowditch Bicycle Boulevard with UC Berkeley’s campus and the bike lanes on Piedmont Avenue. This will improve bicycle mobility and access to UC Berkeley, the Southside area, and the...

Dana Street Two-Way Protected Bike Lane

Set to come in 2018, the new Dana Street will feature a two-way protected bike lane that will connect the Dana Bicycle Boulevard south of Dwight to the two-way protected bike lane on Bancroft Way and UC Berkeley. This will improve bicycle mobility and access to UC Berkeley, Downtown Berkeley, and...

Berkeley's Southside Pilot Project Brings Bike & Transit Improvements

Starting in the fall of 2017 with the Bancroft West section, the Southside Pilot Project will create a network of protected bike lanes, transit improvements, and pedestrian improvements in the south side of UC Berkeley’s campus. Working in...

Hearst Avenue Protected Bike Lanes Open this Fall

It took two Bike East Bay pop up bikeway demos and years of convincing Berkeley to fund and build its first protected bike lane, but when construction completes this Fall (estimated late September), Hearst Avenue will be Berkeley’s fourth protected bike facility, having been caught at the finish...