Good to see you out there! Sport and I had a great Thanksgiving home as well!

Also a 2-way cycletrack on the south side of Marin would have required curbside car parking conversion. Plus a good protected bikeway design is made more difficult by all the driveways on Marin.

The national media’s record of only ever reporting bad news about Oakland (or even good news reframed as bad news) goes unblemished.

It would’ve been much better for the project to reorient the crosswalks including directional curb ramps to go straight across San Pablo instead of at an angle, which would have then enabled better bike turn boxes or even a protected intersection. But the giant gas station driveways prevents that.

What I’m most annoyed by is the 2-stage bike turn box on the NW corner on the wrong side of the crosswalk, forcing bicyclists to turn against southbound San Pablo Ave car traffic to reach it. I can’t imagine many people will use that turn box.

Agreed but unlikely. Albany already finished their Marin Ave bike lane project to the east & this ACTC project is unlikely to spend any capital undoing that.

The ACTC project is at 100% design & expected to go to bid in January, so only very minor freaks are feasible at this stage.

Also on Threads. I would not have expected it from those outlets, but I'll take it!

I don't know for sure sorry, but it looks like Piedmont might currently be only using high viz crosswalk striping at uncontrolled crossings. Oakland used to do that too but moved to striping all crosswalks as high viz, because why not? There's no situation where a "low viz" crossing is preferable.

This maps screenshot shows how big the gap used to be, where the striped northbound bike lane ended until it picked up again after the wide intersection.

Another small detail: We also collaborated to extend the Grand Ave painted bike lane striping, so there is less of a gap where a new sidewalk extension was installed. It doesn’t offer physical protection, but it was an easy, low cost adjustment.

Does Berkeley even have a bike rack request program anymore? I have tried following up using this info before, but didn't get any follow up.

berkeleyca.gov/city-service...

My goal is to also get rid of all the double turn lanes & implement further upgrades at the Powell/Christie intersection. Emeryville has a Christie-Shellmound loop proposal to also add 2-way cycletracks there. That’ll be the main opportunity for any fixes.

This project coming next year is making some bus access and bike/walk changes to that underpass, but still not nearly enough IMO.

The city and county don’t have much say about what happens with the freeway. I can’t imagine that it’ll be removed or buried, at least in my lifetime. So overpasses are the best we can hope for, and maybe a slightly better Powell Street underpass.

A bike/walk bridge from 65th St to the Bay is on the way for construction 2029-2030, At least. All the parking garages is indeed an issue that undermines a lot of the other good work the city is doing.

www.alamedactc.org/programs-pro...

Of the 5 city council members 3 have been continuously voting in support, 1 sitting on the sidelines so as to not take sides, and 1 forced to recuse themselves for taking campaign donations from the business owners w/o properly reporting it. So the project is moving forward.

A few business owners on the corridor have become increasingly dug in on their opposition to the project the longer it’s been in development. The city has made adjustments to try to accommodate their concerns & did studies to show how truck traffic can access the site, to no avail.

Similar to Oakland DOT's existing design detail here: