This funding will help deliver Berkeley’s Adeline Street Quick-Build project, which will add separated bikeways for 0.6 miles between the Oakland border and Ashby BART!

JOB: Berkeley is hiring a new Transportation Division Manager! Please share widely. The City needs a leader committed to Vision Zero and sustainable transportation!
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Photo of Michael Burawoy from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burawoy

A driver killed our neighbor Michael Burawoy last night while he was crossing Grand Ave in the crosswalk in front of Fairyland

Our hearts reach out to his family, friends, students, and everyone else mourning this tremendous loss

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“brat” stencil on green bike lane in a protected intersection

Hell yeah, protected intersections are very brat

Brought dry socks and shoes for him to change into at school.

Walk Bike Berkeley is deeply upset that Elise Lusk was killed when a motorist hit her as she walked across Ada Street at California Street on January 26. A trip to the grocery store should not end in tragedy. Ms. Lusk’s preventable death again highlights that the City must redouble its Vision Zero efforts to eliminate severe and fatal collisions. We call on the City to quickly install simple, proven measures to slow vehicle traffic and protect pedestrians in response to this and other recent collisions.

Our statement on Elise Lusk’s tragic death.

After a motorist fatally struck a 66-year-old Berkeley woman Sunday, three council members are asking staff to study adding stop signs to intersections like the one where it happened. The driver, an 87-year-old Oakland woman, pinned Elise B. Lusk under a car at Ada and California streets, near Monterey Market, around 1 p.m., police said. The Berkeley Fire Department extricated Lusk, 66, and took her to Highland Hospital but she died from her injuries, police said. Councilmembers Mark Humbert, Shoshana O’Keefe and Brent Blackaby drew parallels between the intersection where Lusk was killed and the intersection of Derby and Mabel streets where a driver on Halloween 2023 struck a 7-year-old trick-or-treater, breaking the boy’s femur, fracturing his pelvis and lacerating his head. “Something these two intersections appear to have in common is the presence of traffic diverters without stop signs,” according to a proposal for further study that’s likely to go before the whole council in February. “Since there is generally no oncoming traffic, drivers may treat such intersections differently from intersections with through traffic in all directions.”

Charge me with ageism if you will, but nearly every serious/fatal pedestrian crash in Berkeley involves a driver born before Eisenhower was president.

We are deeply upset by this horrible news of another pedestrian death in our community.

Holding all who knew and loved Elise Lusk in our thoughts.

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Paving equipment in a residential street

Hit the Berkeley lottery. My block getting smoothened as I type.

No bikes sign on a public two lane road

#nobikes in the chicago burbs

Screenshot of Sophie Hahn’s Facebook post stating “I am heartbroken over the just-announced death of a pedestrian in District 5. Sending my condolences to his family and continuing my commitment to reducing injuries and fatalities on our streets.”

We appreciate Councilmember Hahn acknowledging yesterday’s tragic pedestrian fatality on Rose Street.

However, she has not shown a commitment to safe streets.

She was the ONLY councilmember that did not support Measure FF, which is designed to help prevent such collisions. 🧵