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.
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!
Grab your bikes and invite your friends & family – we’re excited to announce that after a long break, “Bike About Town” family rides have returned to Albany!! New local business Kitava Kitchen‘s owner Bryan Tublin has offered to host community bike rides along with Albany Strollers & Rollers. All levels of cyclists are encouraged to join.
Arrive at 10:30 for rollout at 10:45 at Kitava Kitchen at 1187 Solano Avenue (next to the post office.)
Join the Fun!!
photo courtesy Amy Smolens
We ALWAYS need Ride Guides to help guide folks around town from the front, middle and back so if you’re a confident rider please come 10 minutes early and help your neighbors out!
Bring yourself, your friends and your family to Kitava Kitchen for the Bike About Town rides!
Come a few minutes early to pump up your tires (we’ll have a floor pump), pick up a bell (we will have AS&R’s special 20th Anniversary bells,) get a route map, and we will take off in a big group. There are experienced cyclists to lead and bring up the rear. After wheeling about for around forty-five minutes to an hour we return to Kitava – grab lunch or a snack, and business owner Bryan is offering a free drink to ride participants with any purchase! There are plenty of bike racks out front and in the area to accommodate all of us!
