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In 2000, Bike East Bay worked to pass
Alameda County Measure B which implemented Alameda County's twenty-year Transportation Expenditure Plan which included a 5% set-aside to fund implementation of the Countywide Bicycle Plan. In 2004, the organization also supported Contra Costa County Measure J, a
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Oakland's City Hall Plaza. Today the event has become an annual celebration on a regional and national scale. In 2014 Bike to Work Day celebrated its 20th birthday. Bike East Bay counted close to 20,000 bike commuters on the day of and organized a pop-up protected
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Bike East Bay strives to inform both bicyclists and motorists with its
Bicycle Safety Quiz, which it has made available online, and in Chinese and Spanish. The organization also supports traffic safety classes in the East Bay which endeavor to educate cyclists on how to drive a bicycle safely and
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T2035 Plan; bicycle access on BART trains, all Bay Area ferry services, all East Bay bus systems, as well as bicycle access on Golden Gate
Transit buses across the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. Bike East Bay helped implement the Caltrans Bay Area Bridge Bicycle Shuttle and worked to pass Prop 116
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In 2014, Bike East Bay campaigned to pass
Measure BB, a re-authorization of the previous Measure B. Measure BB, passed November 2014 with 70% of votes, will generate nearly $ 8 billion over 30 years for essential transportation improvements in every city throughout Alameda County. Of that $ 8
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Bike East Bay is developing community liaisons for all 55 cities and municipalities in the East Bay, to include promoting the efforts of bicycle advisory committees in those municipalities; coordinating the annual Bike-to-Work Day in the East Bay; promoting bicycle access on all roads, at all
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The organization, and its diverse constituencies, have achieved numerous public policy accomplishments over the years in areas of state and local legislation and administrative regulation to include: helping secure $ 1 billion in funding for the
Regional Bicycle Network included in
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to allow bicycles aboard its trains. Zuckerman also lobbied for bike access on the
Richmond-San Rafael, Benicia (successfully) and Carquinez (successfully) bridges, among other accomplishments. The bike and pedestrian path on the new eastern span of the
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The organization publishes two East Bay
Bicycle Transportation Maps, one covering areas "East of the Hills" and another covering areas "West of the Hills," which planners and activists have used as templates for municipal
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program as part of the
Regional Measure 2 toll increase, to include $ 20 million in ongoing funding for the program, and later helping to secure an additional $ 10 million per year for the program in MTC's T2035 Plan.
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in downtown areas and other key destinations. Bike East Bay also watchdogs the spending of millions of dollars in transportation and strategic planning funds it has succeeded in allocating for bicycle facilities.
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funding for Amtrak's Bike-Friendly
California Cars on Capitol and San Joaquin trains by 1990. Bike East Bay's calls for "Routine Accommodation" of bicyclists in all transportation projects were adopted by the
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program to the East Bay, guiding city bike plans in Berkeley, Concord, Moraga, Hayward and others, asking for more protected bikeways to be built and closing gaps in the bikeway network.
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Bike East Bay has a long history of advocating for broad-based and sustainable transportation and land use planning solutions that also enhance the built environment for
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Bike East Bay and its volunteer network across two counties frequently offers free, secure, valet bicycle parking at cultural and civic events throughout the East Bay.
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facilities, and on all transit for both sides of the hills; improving BART access and parking; obtaining safe and convenient
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billion, bikes will get over 10% to fund complete streets, bicycle infrastructure projects and program. Jeff Miller of the
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