A cyclist rides along a new bike path along Adeline Street in 2020, shortly after the city adopted its omnibus Bicycle Plan in 2017. The City Council is expected to vote on an update in July. Credit: Pete Rosos When Berkeley began surveying residents in 2022 on how best to update the city’s Bicycle Plan , people said they were most worried about safety on city streets and at intersections. The city is looking for feedback once again and has set up a listening tour to try to narrow down its highest priority safety upgrades for cyclists and others who roll along bike lanes and paths.
The city first adopted its current Bicycle Plan in 2017 . The policy document spelled out two decades’ worth of proposed infrastructure improvements and community goals. Two of those goals were to eliminate bike-related deaths in Berkeley by 2025 and bike-related injuries by 2035, all while increasing ridership and access for Berkeleyans of all ages and abilities.
Berkeley police have not posted crash data for 2025 yet. In 2024 there were no cyclists killed in Berkeley, according to BPD data, but there were 95 crashes involving cyclists that resulted in at least one injury or possible injury.
“There’s a wide range of devices that legally can use bike lanes, separated bikeways and the bike path,” Christopher Kidd, a senior planning associate for the Oakland-based Alta , the city’s planning and design consultant on the Bicycle Plan, reported to the Transportation and Infrastructure Commission on Jan. 16. […]
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