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#Oakland #BikeOakland #BikeOAK #BikeTooter #GoodBoy 🚴🐾

5 blocks later, I caught up to the same black car that had been driving in the bike lane in the first video. It was in the bike lane again, and this time it used the bike lane to bypass the other car traffic, then ran the red light along with a motorcycle. #Oakland #BikeTooter #BikeOAK

This driver should get a bike, apparently it's faster than driving a car on Bancroft Ave at rush hour, even when the driver repeatedly breaks several traffic laws.

The Bancroft Ave bike lane might be the worst in #Oakland, although I'm sure there's some stiff competition. Here, a car in the car lane turns right, while the car driving in the bike lane goes straight. 🤦‍♂️ #BikeOAK #BikeTooter

A driver (with no license plate, natch) pulled into the bike lane early this evening, then started doing donuts before I'd even gotten through the intersection. Thanks, dude. And thanks, #Oakland. #BikeOakland #BikeOAK #BikeTooter

New bike lane just dropped.

I got to take my inaugural ride on the mostly complete Fruitvale Ave bike lane today. It's at sidewalk level and separated from cars by a curb and a couple feet of planting space, a fairly common design elsewhere, but a first here in #Oakland. This is a major bike & pedestrian commuting route between Alameda and BART, as well as a good way to reach the waterfront Bay Trail, so it's long overdue. Thanks to @BikeEastBay, @BikeWalkAlameda and others for years of work to get us here. #BikeTooter #BikeLanes #BikeOAK

Any bike folks in #Oakland or the #SFBA have suggestions for this question from new arrival @LaD_Hallo? "Am new in Oakland and am in the market for a good used bike, maybe a foldable. Are there shops in the Bay you can recommend?"

#BikeTooter #BikeOAK #Berkeley @diygene @morgan @marcprecipice @ascentale @BikeEastBay @lula @9speederailleur

Give me protected bike lanes, or give me death traps where drivers of cars without license plates use bike lanes as passing lanes WHILE CYCLISTS ARE IN THEM. — Patrick Henry, paraphrased.

This driver on Bancroft near 94th Ave in #Oakland would probably have gone even further in the bike lane if the van parked in it hadn't forced him back into the car lane. #BikeTooter #BikeOAK @BikeEastBay @RapidResponseTeam

Video of a car passenger intentionally assaulting me on San Pablo Ave in West #Oakland around 5:20 this afternoon (June 7). The passenger struck me on the side of my head and helmet, knocking off my glasses. Thankfully, I did not fall over. I am physically fine.

The car was waiting behind/alongside me at a red light on West St, and attacked me as we turned the corner into San Pablo after the light turned green. I was in the bike lane the entire time, and had no prior interaction with the car. The car is a black Nissan Altima with CA license plate 7HFV146. Here is a link to a longer, higher resolution version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9rwH5uM33QE

Be careful out there, folks! I love riding bikes, and this won't stop me. It will only make me more determined to make our cities safer for bikes and pedestrians, whether the danger comes from oblivious drivers on their cell phones, or kids riding around intentionally attacking people. 🚲❤️#BikeOAK #SFBA #BikeTooter @BikeEastBay @RapidResponseTeam

Never a dull moment in East Oakland's bike lanes. When you hear dirt bikes behind you, best to get out of the way. This was at Bancroft & 106th today. #WatchYourSix #Oakland #BikeOAK #BikeOakland #Cycling

Parking in a bike lane? Strike one.
Parking next to a red curb? Strike two.
Parking next to a No Stopping Any Time sign? Strikeout.
Lounging long-term with your door open and your feet up on the window frame? Yer outta here!
#Oakland #BikeOakland #BikeOAK #Cycling

@colburn
#Oakland doesn't even pretend to enforce laws against delivery vehicles parking in bike lanes.
0 tickets were issued for bike lane violations to the big delivery companies from 2010-2022.
And only 33 were issues for other parking violations.
#VisionZero #BikeOAK #BikeOakland #BikeEastBay #BikeLanes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U8AuKf3g7J1AIu5XwB6yb3ZSp7KMq9Gy4aQIAwp-En4/edit?usp=sharing

Car drivers: Why are cyclists such scofflaws?

Me: Here's video of a normal scene in #Oakland, showing a car with no license plate weaving around oncoming traffic through a red light, after using the oncoming lane to bypass all the waiting cars.

#BikeOAK #BikeOakland

There was a pretty bad hit and run on a cyclist at E 12th St & 39th Ave in Fruitvale on Thursday evening, per this Nextdoor post. I'm not putting the victim's name on blast here, but it sounds like he did what he could in terms of getting appropriate medical help and documenting the incident. I'm glad it wasn't even worse.

Sorry for all my moaning today about drivers, but if you're in #Oakland, please support the Mayor's proposed increase in street safety funding, and efforts by @BikeEastBay, @RapidResponseTeam & others to make our city safer for cyclists and pedestrians. #oakmtg #BikeOAK #BikeOakland

Another bike lane video from yesterday. There is 20 feet of legal curbside parking next to these two empty pickup trucks, but their owners left them parked in the bike lane anyway, because they know the City of #Oakland tolerates flagrant illegality like this. This part of 38th Ave almost always has several vehicles blocking the bike lane, and some drivers even use it for overnight parking, because they know they won't be ticketed, never mind towed. #BikeOAK #BikeOakland #BikeEastBay #BikeLanes #Cycling

Drivers are always innovating new ways of scaring cyclists. Yesterday, right after I had ridden around one empty car parked in the Telegraph bike lane, the driver parked in the bike lane 30 feet ahead of it suddenly put his car in reverse as I approached it from behind, only putting his foot on the brake AFTER his Prius started moving backwards. (He ended up making an illegal U-turn after I passed him, so I'm chalking this one up to sheer lack of driving skills, since he probably didn't mean to reverse at all.) #Oakland #BikeOAK #BikeOakland #BikeEastBay #BikeLanes #Cycling

About 15 years ago I used to work at a warehouse in San Leandro near the Oakland airport, and the best part of the job was that I got to commute back and forth via the MLK Shoreline path every day. #Oakland #BikeOAK #BikeOakland

I'll never stop singing the praises of the multi-use waterfront path at MLK Regional Shoreline in #Oakland. A 3-mile stretch of beautiful path where cyclists, dog walkers, joggers, and families can travel and exercise without any danger from automobiles, close to some of our city's most dangerous neighborhoods in terms of street safety.

Here's a video (at 4X speed) of about 2 miles of the path from my bike ride yesterday,: https://youtu.be/cjPX3FtGBxI #BikeOakland #BikeOAK #GoOutside

It seemed like drivers were behaving especially badly on the roads today. I'm having trouble deciding which incidents to leave on the cutting room floor as I sort through all my video LOL. Fortunately there were no collisions or injuries. #Cycling #BikeEastBay #BikeOAK #BikeOakland

Animal crossing today on the best bike path in #Oakland (MLK Regional Shoreline between Tidewater and Doolittle). So glad I didn't hit the little creature! #BikeOAK #BikeOakland #GoOutside

I considered riding my bike alongside this proud Tesla driver and shouting "LOL ELECTRICITY," but I'm hopelessly polite. #Oakland #Cycling #BikeOakland #BikeOAK

Red light running is rampant in #Oakland, as evidenced by this maroon Honda. It's no wonder cyclists break traffic rules ourselves in order to get as far away as possible from those death machines.

On the brighter side, I was alongside the bus to my left for much of East 15th and then Foothill, and the driver was very attentive and considerate, taking care not to cut me off at corners or when they stopped at the curb to pick up passengers. Kudos to that anonymous AC Transit driver. #BikeOAK #BikeOakland

I'm a big fan of e-bikes...except when one of them whizzes past me on my regular bike on the steepest part of 35th Ave. 😂🚴#Oakland #EBikes #BikeOakland #BikeOAK

Buy an antisocial vehicle and park it in an antisocial place. It would be far cheaper to just buy a T-shirt which says "I'm an asshole," but I guess the conspicuous consumption is part of the point. #Oakland #BikeOAK #BikeOakland #Cycling #BikeLaneBlockers

A spot on Golf Links Road by Knowland Park is down to one lane, apparently because the shoulder is eroding into Arroyo Viejo Creek. I'm not sure exactly when it happened because I haven't ridden that way in a few months, but it looks like it'll be one lane for a while.

A good reminder that our infrastructure is all provisional, contingent on the whims of mother nature. Especially in the #Oakland hills. #BikeOAK #BikeOakland

It sounds like 1,500' is the lowest elevation likely to get any snow in the East Bay hills. Skyline Blvd never reaches that, but Grizzly Peak Blvd tops out at 1,664 feet alongside Tilden Park. #BikeOAK #Oakland #Berkeley #CAwx

Now I regret missing this. It looks amazing. Kudos to the Roll Out Crew and everyone else involved. #Solidarity #Oakland #BikeOAK
https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/22/bay-area-cyclists-attacked-solidarity-ride-roll-out-crew/

This 15 second clip from my bike ride today should answer any questions about why urban cyclists so adamantly lobby for protected #BikeLanes instead of unprotected ones. #Oakland #BikeOAK #BikeTooter
https://youtu.be/Nbl-X3-KmtU

Oaklandside has a very thorough recounting of the automotive attacks on bike riders on Friday and Saturday, which were even more extensive than I realized. Impressive work by activists (and the reporter) to gather all this info.

I hope these incidents light a fire under #Oakland #Emeryville & #Berkeley politicos to get more serious about car violence, whether intentional or accidental. Not holding my breath, though. #BikeOAK #BikeEastBay @BikeEastBay

https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/14/east-bay-bicyclists-frightened-by-string-of-recent-car-attacks/

Clear video of a car passenger intentionally dooring cyclists as they try to ride around a car parked in an unprotected bike lane. Pretty much sums up what it's like to ride a bike in American cities.

This was before the #EastBayBikeParty ride in #Oakland last night, during which some other cyclists were harassed or clipped by drivers. #BikeOAK #BikeTooter (Edited to correct timing of incident.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl0EdZtnY1M

A modified "slow streets" program is expected to be implemented soon in #Oakland. (All streets should be slow streets IMO, but that'll have to be somewhere down the line.) #BikeOAK
https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/10/slow-streets-are-returning-to-oakland-through-neighborhood-bike-routes-and-paving-projects/