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Oakland, CA
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Person on a bike, two turkey vultures on side of road. Tree-lined street
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I had the helmet bag today.
Black pannier with five helmets strapped to it. On concrete.
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I finished seating the tire after the ride, pumped it up, and it’s holding air! I’m very thankful that the shuttle crew member had their bike on board and was able to help.
A close-up view of a bicycle's rear wheel and rack, featuring a red light and a pannier. The inner tube is partly removed. The background shows signage from the inside of a boat.
October 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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This is so frustrating because it’s all preventable. They are results, not accidents
4& WASHINGTON MONTGOMERY COUNTY Neighbors call for safe crosswalk after 13-year-old severely injured in Wheaton crash It's the fourth pedestrian crash in the same small section of Montgomery County since July.
October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#WeekWithoutDriving day 5: rolling by other commuters to school at a traffic circle is always nice. We ring our bells to say hello.
A street scene featuring a traffic circle with yellow directional signs, surrounded by greenery and rocks. Multiple vehicles are present, including cars in a parking lane. Residential houses with distinctive architectural styles are visible in the background under a cloudy sky. Someone riding a bicycle is visible across the traffic circle.
October 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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#WeekWithoutDriving Day 4: sorta rainy morning but not unpleasant at all. First time wearing the raincoat in a while.
Wet roads, person in bright yellow/green raincoat riding bicycle, parked cars on side of the road. Cloudy sky in distance
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Day 2 of #WeekWithoutDriving - it’s not always great. Close call this morning. But new painted lanes downtown. Could be better, but still an improvement.
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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#WeekWithoutDriving Day 1. Rolling home from school. Riding a bike is more fun than driving.
A child is riding a blue bicycle on a street, wearing a helmet and athletic clothing. A silver minivan is parked nearby, and there are houses and trees in the background. The rider is dancing with their hands while seated on the bike.
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Ahhh, here we go publicola.com/2024/04/02/d...
"Pike Place is not an event street by any stretch of the word-it is the lifeline street in the market historical district," Friends of the Market president Heather Pihl said. "Pike Place Market is a working market, and it's also a community including low income residents, a senior center, a food bank, a child care, and a medical clinic. It's not a place to hang out." Kettle agreed that making the market pedestrian-only would harm businesses, by making them harder to access by car and limiting access for trucks to load in and out. Calling the proposal a "cookie cutter approach" that does not acknowledge the market's "unique" character, location, and relative lack of access points, Kettle said, "This is not William Penn's Philadelphia, where we have nice squares going everywhere. [Pike Place Market] is on the cusp of falling into the sea. ... There [are] no streets on the other side. There's no First Avenue further west or Second Avenue further west. Basically, we have Elliott Bay."
September 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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May all of your rides home be blessed with vibes like these
Person riding bike down residential street with arms out wide, cloudy sky, parked cars on side of road
September 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Here’s a screenshot of the conceptual design at Hopkins and Colusa that anti-bike advocates opposed. berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...
August 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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First #BikeBus of the year!
Group of parents and children on bicycles viewed fro the back of a group. Residential street parked cars are present. Trees and grey sky
August 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Some DIY traffic calming I came across
Sidewalk spray painted with yellow paint “stop here” with arrow pointing to white line on road Thin crosswalk in a small American town with yell hand painted “SLOW DOWN” in front
July 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Nicely restored Rockhopper
Teal specialized rockhopper, pink handlebar grips, light pink pedals, purple cable housing, purple decals Locked to bike rack with cable lock
July 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Dashboard doggo
Older mode Mercedes Benz l, brown, with small brown dog on dashboard. On city street
July 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Baby’s first rack and pannier 🥺
Child riding bike with rear rack and blue pannier
June 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Bow, on sidewalk, Ninth Street in South Berkeley.
Bow, black plastic. Held in front of tree trunk. Sidewalk and landscaping and blue building in background.
June 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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A little video of it!
June 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Seems like both are good? Looks like there were 3 analyses in the study. 1st (ANCOVA), looking at raw people on bikes increase showed protected lanes increased the number the most.

And the 2nd analysis (DID) showed that buffered lanes increased the person-on-bike mode share the most.
installed in each block group between 2014 and 2019 (block groups could also be designated as 'None' if there were no bicycle facilities installed during the period). The ANCOVA explored changes in the number of bicycle commuters, whereas the DID explored changes in bicycle commute mode share. The third analysis-a multivariate regression-explored changes in the number of bicycle commuters while simultaneously accounting for the length of every bicycle facility type installed in each block group between 2014 and 2019. From lowest stress to highest stress, the bicycle facility types studied were PBLs, BBLs, SBL and SHRs. The results from the first analysis-using ANCOVA at the block group level of geography-suggest that, after controlling for SES and built environment characteristics, block groups that installed PBLs experienced the largest increases in the number of bicycle commuters (Table 1). More specifically, block groups that installed PBLs, which we designated as PBL block groups, saw increases in the number of bicycle commuters that were 1.9, 1.8, 1.6 and 4.3 times larger than block groups whose lowest-stress bicycle facility installed was a BBL (BBL block groups), SBL (SBL block groups), SHR (SHR block groups) or 'None' (that is, block groups that installed no bicycle facilities), respectively. Block groups of all bicycle facility types had significantly larger increases in bicycle For the second analysis, we tested the same block group data using a DID approach, comparing changes in bicycle commute mode share in each facility type's block groups with changes in block groups that had no bicycle facilities installed. This time, the BBL block groups experienced the largest increase in bicycle commute mode share (Fig. 1). Although PBLs were installed in block groups with the highest extant levels of bicycle commuting, the PBL block groups still experienced the second largest increase in bicycle commute mode share in the after period. Interestingly, the initial bicycle commute mode shares in the SBL block groups were similar to the BBL block groups, yet bicycle commute mode share growth was 42.2% stronger in the BBL block group than in the SBL block groups.
June 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Target pickup by bike. This is probably not new, but new to me: they have “Bicycle” as a pickup option in their app.
May 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Belated last day! Day 30 of #30DaysOfBiking
It’s harder to post video than to ride 🙃
❤️ #BikeBus to school
Bike East Bay’s bike education van
Watch out for Door zones (concrete/buffers are better)
❤️ protected lanes
May 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Belated Day 29 of #30DaysOfBiking
I love an impromptu ride with friends
Please don’t park in bike lanes 😭
Please don’t park in bike lanes 😭 (though I have sympathy, car had broken down & they needed a jump)
❤️ protected lanes
Bike month kickoff in Berkeley
Amazing sticker game
❤️ Protected lanes
May 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Belated Day 28 of #30DaysOfBiking
Ride to school and back. Always great to see friends
May 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Belated Day 27 of #30DaysOfBiking
Riding to Berkeley
Tiny slow leak flat
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Belated Day 26 of #30DaysOfBiking
Please don’t park in bike lanes 😭
Pretty roses
En route to the Alameda Bike Festival
Bike-powered smoothies
Trying cargobikes
Bikemobile free bike repair
Bike surfing
Water shuttle
May 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM