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Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day
Thursday, May 12, is “Bike to Work Day” nationally, and there is always a particularly robust East Bay set of activities.
Those who bicycle to work regularly, and those who travel to their job on two wheels for the first time or just for the day, can take advantage of a variety of services, prizes, and benefits.
There will be over 110 “energizer stations” at street corners and other strategic points in the East Bay, where cyclists can stop for morning refreshment and to pick up a free bag of items from food coupons to energy bars.
Nearly twenty stations will be in Berkeley and Albany, staffed by volunteers, including contingents from the Bicycle Friendly Berkeley Coalition and the UC Berkeley campus. At some of them staff from bicycle repair and sales shops will be on hand to do bicycle inspections and tune-ups.
In the Downtown Berkeley and UC campus area there are stations at Shattuck and Allston, University and Shattuck, Oxford and Hearst, and Telegraph and Bancroft (Sproul Plaza).
Additional stations will be at the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations, and the pedestrian bridge overpass to the Berkeley Marina.
There is also a “Bike Away from Work Party” in the evening, 5:30 – 8:30 in the Old Oakland district, at Washington and 9th.
See the East Bay Bicycle Coalition website for full local details.
