Help celebrate the many years of planning that went into the Gilman Interchange Project at the Ribbon Cutting! This event will celebrate the collaboration between the City of Albany, City of Berkeley, Alameda County Transportation Commission, and Caltrans. AS&R helped expand the scope of the project to include the construction of a low-stress, all ages and abilities connection from the Codornices Creek Trail to the new active transportation bridge. This created the lowest stress connection between the Ohlone Greenway and the Bay Trail anywhere along their length. We’ll ride along this new route, stopping at times to admire the details. Ride starts in Albany at 10:30 am. Ribbon Cutting is at the west side of the interchange at 11 am. Register for the Ribbon Cutting here.
This will be an all ages and abilities group ride with support from the AS&R Core Group. Kids welcome, but bikes with training wheels are not recommended.
Yes, it’s a Monday, but take a couple hours off and celebrate as we lead into May: Bike Month!
Ride Plan:
- Meet-up at the NE corner of Marin at Masonic, on the Ohlone Greenway,
- 10:30 am: head south on the Greenway for one block,
- Turn right onto Dartmouth,
- Cross San Pablo at the High Visibility signal,
- Make a quick left then right onto the Codornices Creek Path west towards 10th Street,
- Continue on the Codornices Creek Pathway to 5th Street,
- Turn left onto 5th to Harrison (past the skate park),
- Turn right on Harrison to 4th (past the soccer fields),
- Turn left on 4th to Gilman,
- Cross Gilman and turn right onto the protected cycletrack on the far side,
- Ride it three blocks to the bridge,
- Go over the freeway on the bridge,
- Turn right off the bridge onto the Bay Trail,
- Ride around the corner to the 11 am ribbon cutting, all the way to the interchange!
- Some bike parking is available in the field’s parking lot, or keep your bike with you.
- Now you know the route! Return is on your own or with those you met on the ride.
Come join our annual rolling party, Bike to Wherever Day!
courtesy Francesco Papalia
Join the City of Albany, AS&R, IBX Fitness and for “Bike to Wherever Day” in the Bay Area, a party on wheels!! And it’s back at our traditional, tried-&-true location, the Ohlone Greenway @ Marin.
As usual, there will be coffee, food, swag, bike goodies in Bike East Bay’s famous Bike to Work Day musette bags, fun and lots of good conversation & information so come on down on your way to work, school, shopping or around town! LOCAL BUSINESSES FERN’S GARDEN AND BUA LUANG THAI CUISINE HAVE GENEROUSLY GIVEN US GIFT CARDS FOR VOLUNTEERS SO STEP UP WHILE THEY LAST!
Do I see coffee and treats?! WE NEED YOU TO HELP PREPARE AND HAND OUT!
courtesy Melanie Mintz
Here’s a short VIDEO that AS&R member Francesco Papalia took a few years ago so you can see how fun the morning is!
In addition to the great Bike East Bay musette swag bags, we’ll have our own safety items like reflective bands, and bells, BikeLink cards, and lots of great conversation about cycling and walking! Mayor López is our station coordinator and will be on hand to host. City staff will there to engage around transportation issues in Albany and the current ATP planning process.
Ian B from IBX Fitness says that they’ll offer a spin the wheel game to win free classes, swag, and a free PDF for cyclists to help improve mobility and strength!
Volunteers like you are the key to success – please join us!
photo courtesy Britt Tanner
SO YES, WE NEED YOUR HELP PREPARING & DISTRIBUTING ALL THESE GOODIES TO HUNDREDS OF CYCLISTS! SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER AT tinyurl.com/ASRAlbanyIbx2025BtWD .
We’ll need help STUFFING THE MUSETTE BAGS with goodies on Wednesday 5/7, picking up coffee early morning on the 15th (and returning the container later), and handing out musette bags, food and counting cyclists, staffing the AS&R table to talk with fellow cyclists, all morning at the Energizer Station.
Thanks!!
Cyclists in training. photo courtesy Mike Gill
WE WILL NEED HELP AT OUR ENERGIZER STATION BEGINNING AT 6:15 (prep) a.m. through wrap-up at 9:30.
Excitement is bubbling over for Bike to Wherever Day! Photo courtesy Elaine
Join Bike East Bay for an interactive, hands-on workshop where we will review the basic process of fixing a flat and inner tube patching, as well as strategies to avoid flats. Bring your own flat tire or use one of our class demos! No prior experience is necessary to attend this class.
This class is made possible via funding from the Alameda County Transportation Commission.
THE WORKSHOP IS FREE BUT PLEASE PRE-REGISTER HERE TO RESERVE A SPOT!
