Eight e-bike bills are currently making their way through the California state legislature. Bike East Bay has collected resources to help you stay informed.

“E-motos” are not e-bikes but are often falsely marketed as such. E-motos differ from e-bikes in having motors which generate over 750W of power or the ability to reach top speeds exceeding 28 mph.

Whenever a car crash kills or injures a pedestrian or bicyclist, people will say that the police department needs to do more traffic enforcement. But rarely are the designs of the street or intersection or vehicle examined.

Americans are living longer than ever, and they are driving older than ever. According to Federal Highway Administration data, in 2003, 15% of drivers were 65 or older, and they are now 23% of drivers.

Caltrans and the City of El Cerrito have a cooperative agreement to do a $14 million pavement rehabilitation work on San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito.

According to a recent survey, nearly 1 in 5 Americans are interested in car-free living and an additional 40 percent are open to the idea.

The study found that traffic speeds near schools are routinely 30+ miles per hour, even where limits are 25 miles per hour, and daily traffic volumes are far higher than what feels safe for biking.

Caltrans is spending this money to smooth the street out without making any changes (a couple of blinking lights at two crosswalks doesn't do much) to how it is designed.

A 67-year-old Richmond Annex woman was struck by a car and seriously injured while attempting to cross San Pablo Avenue from Waldo Street. Source: Microsoft Bing map

Residents of a street with low car traffic had at least twice as many acquaintances as people living on a similar street with high car traffic.

“El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk and Roll is a small team of volunteer advocates making a big impact,” Bike East Bay wrote in its announcement that we received their “Best Community Advocacy” award.

Researchers in Denmark analyzed video footage of travelers’ behavior at major intersections and found that 14 percent of bicycle riders violated basic traffic rules—lots of bicycling on sidewalks. But when separated bike lanes were present, that dropped to under 4.9 percent.

The 104-page report covers Madera Elementary School, Arlington Boulevard, Korematsu Middle School, the Ohlone Greenway, San Pablo Avenue, and El Cerrito’s proposed East Side Bicycle Boulevard.

On September 17 El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll was honored to receive Bike East Bay’s Best Community Advocacy Award at its annual Biketopia fundraiser, and on Sept. 18 we accepted a Best of El Cerrito award from the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce.

Riders of the AC Transit #7 bus organized a party to celebrate the line, which due to “Realign” now runs only once an hour!

We agreed on a run and boarded at our favorite stops, meeting each other on the bus and then riding all the way to the end of the line to share a meal together.

The Electrify Expo is a traveling road show of e-mobility that will visit eight U.S. cities this year including the Bay Area Chicago, New York, Dallas, Phoenix, and Orlando. Although automobile exhibitors had the biggest footprint, a surprisingly large area was dedicated to e-bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters, e-trikes, electric skateboards, and even e-unicycles!