Your tax dollars at work

So if you drive a car or ride a bicycle to get around Oakland, you probably have an opinion on the city’s new pay and display parking kiosks (PDF!). If you walk everywhere, then you don’t care about parking meters, and you’re probably sick of listening to people complain about how you can’t leave extra time behind for the next person to come along, or how you have to walk all the way down the block and back to pay, or how the new kiosks are totally unfair to motorcycles, or how the city is just trying to squeeze extra money from us, or whatever other problems people might have. Read more

I Bike Oakland

Well, I don’t, personally. Bicycles are incompatible with my wardrobe. I either walk or take the bus.

But for those who do, Oakland’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Program has a new newsletter (PDF!) called “I Bike Oakland” to help you keep track of our progress in implementing the Bicycle Master Plan. Read more