Oakland plans to amp up bikeways in 2011
By: Dara Kerr \| Oakland North \| January 18, 2011
Say you’re at the Rockridge BART station and you’re planning to ride your bike to downtown Oakland. You get on Shafter Avenue—the main through street with the least amount of traffic—and begin riding. As you pedal your way towards Temescal, going up and over the speed bumps, you see little green signs posted on the side of the street that have a graphic of a bicycle and a list of the distances to nearby destinations. “Temescal 0.4 miles. Macarthur BART 0.9 miles. Downtown 1.9 miles,” one sign reads.
The Webster/Shafter corridor, as this bike route is called, is one of the several dozen projects the City of Oakland’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program will be working in 2011. Currently, there are no bike lanes painted on the Shafter portion of the corridor, but within the year 2.7 miles of striping or arrows will cover this route from Berkeley on down to 29th Street. “2011 is going to be the biggest year ever for implementing new bikeways in Oakland,”…
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