BWA Newsletter Archives

November 2024

  • A Ribbon Cutting!
  • Woodstock News
  • Estuary Bridge Update
  • Highlights from California’s 2024 Legislative Session
  • The Safe Systems Pyramid: Treating Traffic Deaths Like an Epidemic
  • Bikeside Chat

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October 2024

  • Election Season Is Here! Do You Know Where Your Candidates Stand?
  • Another Beast of a Commission Meeting
  • Update on Neighborhood Greenways
  • The Art of Taking it Slow
  • Incomplete Streets: Aligning Practice with Promise in Caltrans Projects
  • Why Cars Suck
  • Why Car Companies Might Finally Have to Care About Pedestrian Safety
  • The Case Against Driving City Kids to School

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September 2024

  • The Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (Part IV)
  • Highlights from a Beast of a Transportation Commission Meeting
  • Elections are Coming!
  • Commentary: Let’s Talk About Woodstock the Water Shuttle V2.0
  • Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
  • The Secret to Japan’s Great Cities

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August 2024

  • Improve — Don’t Remove — Our Slow Streets!
  • The Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (Part III)
  • Project Updates
  • This is the Bay Area’s most harrowing bike ride. Is it about to be history?
  • “I’m on a Boat” (Part III)
  • ‘This is not a blip’: A quiet movement grows on San Francisco’s streets
  • Cyclists Are Taking Over Paris for the Olympic Games

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July 2024

  • How Long Do We Plan on Living in Alameda?
  • The Estuary Water Shuttle: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (Part II)
  • The Fourth of July Parade: “Come On In! The Water’s Fine!”
  • The Beauty — and Benefits — of Cargo Bikes
  • I’m a Nondriver — and There’s a Good Chance You Are, Too
  • Not Just Bikes: More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing (Video)
  • What Makes a Good Network?

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June 2024

  • If It Fits, It Sits (And What to Do About It) 
  • Input Wanted: Fernside Boulevard Designs
  • Update on Neighborhood Greenways
  • Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (Part I)
  • Book Launch: Save the Planet in Your Spare Time
  • City Limits
  • Not Just Bikes: What is the Correct Speed (Video)

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May 2024

  • Happy Bike Month!
  • A Refresh for Webster Street
  • Survey Lovers, Rejoice
  • “Immediate Action” on Traffic Safety in Alameda vs. Out at Alameda Point
  • The Reckless Policies that Helped Fill our Streets with Ridiculously Large Cars
  • How to Hit the Trail with Nothing but Amtrak and a Bicycle
  • Five Car Culture Euphemisms We Need to Stop Using

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April 2024

  • Organizational Changes at Bike Walk Alameda
  • The 2024 Work Plan
  • A 15-MInute City in the Making
  • Update on AMP’s E-bike Rebate
  • Hoboken Touts Success of Vision Zero Safety Program
  • American Society Wasn’t Always so Car-Centric. Our Future Doesn’t Have to Be, Either.
  • 4 Car-Free US Destinations
  • Cities Are Depaving for a Cooler Future

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March 2024

  • Calling on Council for a Course Correction
  • All About Alameda’s Neighborhood Greenways
  • If You Build It, They Will Come
  • Fight for Bike Lockers at South Shore
  • Traffic safety for all road users: A paired comparison study of high/low bicycling rates
  • Dublin aims to double cycling over the next four years with 15-minute city plan
  • NOFOs

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February 2024

  • Heads Up: 2023 Transportation Report and 2024 Work Plan Coming Soon!
  • Reclaiming Bay Farm School Bike Lanes
  • Have a Bike to Donate?
  • Drive Less, Live More: How States Can Lead the Way in Climate-Smart Transportation
  • 5Q4: George Stephens
  • Fernside Boulevard: 85% and 5%

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January 2024

  • A Big Thank You to Joyce!
  • Getting to Woodstock
  • Other Free Public Shuttles in Alameda
  • Cheers to the New Year, and New Laws
  • A New MUTCD
  • Johns Hopkins Study Recommends Narrow Travel Lanes
  • You Shouldn’t Be Driving Over 100 mph—and Your Car Shouldn’t Let You
  • Local Events and Classes

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Holiday Letter

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November 2023

  • The Cross Alameda Trail (CAT) is Purring Along
  • California’s 2023 Legislative Recap
  • A Boo-tiful Alameda Halloween
  • Celebrating Four Years of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Path: What’s Next?
  • Winter Getaway by Train
  • A Modern Era: E-bikes are Replacing Horse and Buggy for Some Amish Communities
  • Local Events and Classes

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October 2023

  • All Aboard the Bike Bus!
  • Cargo-Curious Bike Guide
  • Our Cycle September Winner is…
  • Main Street Ferry Terminal Upgrades
  • 6PPD and Thee
  • Green Schools
  • California at a Crossroads: Unleashing Climate Progress in Transportation Planning 
  • Local Events and Classes

View the October 2023 newsletter >

September 2023

  • Electric Cargo Bikes:  Too Cool for School
  • Cycle September is Rolling
  • Bay Farm Bay Trail and Other Infrastructure Updates
  • Oakland-Alameda Estuary Bridge Progress
  • Local Events and Classes

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August 2023

  • Grand Street Design and Funding Approved!
  • The San Francisco Bay Trail Grows
  • Encinal Upgrades
  • A Blue Ribbon for the Cargo Bike Brigade
  • Recommended Listening (Podcast): Freeway Exit
  • Local Events and Classes

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