these are bulb-out trees on university ave. in berkeley. they preserve sidewalk space while still adding to the street environment. they are all up and down university ave.
I don’t know when the city installed them. I also don’t know if “bulb-out trees” is the official name for them.
(Source: Flickr / dianneyee)
BART PD seeks owners to ID stolen bikes. 19.02.13.
BART has posted photographs of the recovered bicycles and frames so theft victims have access to identify their stolen property. In order to claim their property, owners must provide either a case number from a theft report, or other proof it belongs to them. Examples of such proof would be a receipt/proof of purchase which shows the serial number, or other identifiable marks unique to the bicycle. If you recognize the bicycle, frame or other parts as yours telephone the BART Police Investigations Unit at (510) 464-7040.
the prettiest traffic circle in Berkeley, in my opinion. mostly just because it’s got the biggest tree. I think I was in elementary or middle school when the city started installing these. this one’s at Blake at Ellsworth.
after honking at me and still trying to squeeze me when I was taking the lane twice in front of the long bus, the third time—finally—the poorly trained driver drove the long bus all the way in the left lane to go around me, when I took the lane even more obviously (a tiny bit left of center).
THERE YOU GO. now was that so tremendously difficult??!!
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I’ll tell you what’s difficult—a 52t chainring. (the big chainring on a road bike)
how the hell did i ride this way EVERY day in san diego??! even UP hills, I did this. gawd, I’m half as slow/fast on my road bike than on my 46 or 44t fixie now.
inference: I need to seriously train on my road bike if I wanna bike tour.
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I am a friendly cyclist most of the time and will yield to car drivers if there is enough room for me to safely ride on the far right, but the ac transit long buses—they’re like 4x the length of a regular compact car or sedan! and if I’m on the right side and they steer right to stop at a bus stop, they could squeeze and trap me on the right side. Dangerous. so yes, I will go on riding right in the center of the lane if a bus is behind me.
replies/reblogs from my interaction on the road today:
julierthanyou said:
it’s happened to me so many times. some drivers really think the roads are solely for them.
bicycleculture added:
And this is why we need way more motorist education…and a little civility.
oldatticghost reblogged this from bicycleculture and added:
That is the most common thing people yell at me. I don’t understand how people don’t know bikes are allowed on the road.
yeah, like wtf?! it’s even written in the drivers’ handbook. If you didn’t read that thoroughly and don’t know how to share the road, please don’t ever drive on the road. (also, yes, it should full-on be on the drivers’ test.)
anyway, today’s interaction was strange and very unexpected since it happened on a street where there was a bike lane and green bike route signage.
in san diego, where there are basically no bike lanes and very few cyclists, i would always anticipate drivers yelling at me. but this is the bay area. significantly more people bike here, (second after Portland, OR. still nowhere close to Danish or Dutch levels, but visible nonetheless), drivers should be more used to it now. when I was taking a couple driving lessons, the instructor had me go through Temescal (north oakland neighborhood) because lots of people bike there, and so I would know how to drive safely around them.
i’ve just been wondering today if the suv lady has been flipping out in a frenzy seeing cyclists on the streets during her drive in the East Bay today.
Berkeley is so beautiful! I hella miss my old hood. hopefully in 10 or 15 years I can live here again! (maybe not in one of these huge mansion-ish houses but closeby like before)
trees! parks! lots of pretty houses! quiet, walkable streets! :)
it nearly feels like summer already.
riding to work northbound on telegraph ave., at 51th st I passed a girl with a gold lamé backpack and gold sparkly/shimmery helmet.
omg super safe cycle chic! with leggings and a blazer. I would have taken a picture but my phone’s in my backpack and not enough time at the red light to take it out and snap a pic, sorry.
GOLD IS THE NEW FLUORESCENT.
then few blocks later I nearly got doored AGAIN! I believe it was in the Berkeley portion where there is a north american style fail bike lane.
the door opened 3-4 inches wide, right in front of me. I instinctively yelled out EEAYAAAH!!! I think the person stopped opening the door when she finally saw me or heard me; don’t know.
If I yell out DOOR!! that means I have barely enough time to safely swerve around. If I yell out EEAYAAAAH!!! that means you REALLY could have hit me and thrown me into traffic and killed me.
east bay bike party at the berkeley marina, 08.02.13.
