www.StreetFilms.org-Berkeley Bike Boulevards

[KabbalahWestCoast]

4 dislikes--r u crazy? repent! thx go BIKES! loveugodbless tj kabbalah matthewshepard madonnalicious

[AlexMerenkov2]

Was hit by a car today on king st between harmon and alcatraz. DEATH TRAP!

[putramandala]

wish more cities around the globe follows berkeley's example, especially mexican cities and more especifically, guadalajara. because they are now even deeper than the u.s. to the idea of the car's love affair...therefore, they'll be the fatest nation.

[chotsmagic]

HAHA "Traffic circles"... dont you guys call it a roundabout?

[scootermcn]

Our neighborhood would like our streets in Los Altos to copy Berkeley's great ideas.

[quoe1]

we are pro bike here in the sunny side of the bay! unlike SF....

[w011500]

nice video

[icramer]

What a great idea. It makes me want to move out there!

[EvantheG09]

Thank you. This was very useful information.

It was nice to see my home town on Youtube :)

[BerkeleyEagle1600]

Berkeley all day

[closellis]

you should see the miles and miles of bike lanes we have out here in la quinta california!and the views are beautiful!

[bikeorwalkit]

I lived on Milvia and Parker a while back and counted over 50 bicyclists in one-minute from my porch. Pretty amazing stuff. Its too bad most other cities dont catch on.

[coldhandshake]

Cool, I like the idea.

[gyrotaco]

motorists still don't notice the signs. It is ridiculously dangerous here, but I love bicycle boulevards

[samgoater]

ya but the're still riding between moving cars and parked cars

hows that working for ya?

[gyrotaco]

actually, on bicycle boulevards people are allowed to bike in the center of the street. (actually, cyclists can legally do that on any road because they follow all traffic laws, and that could help). Also, I think that bicycle boulevards are wider than most roads.

[darkangelxd777]

In many countries, kids learn to signal, stop at stop lights, and common bicycling etiquette by watching other bicyclists do it.

Now in America, bicycling has been replaced by cars. Kids grow up, not learning how to signal, stop at stop signs/lights, and common etiquette when bicycling.

I know, yielding at stop signs is easier than stopping.

Except, it just promotes a bad image that bicyclists do not follow the rules. It is just 5 seconds to stop, you can trackstand if you want to.

[Walkingstillhonest]

I noticed the bikes on the purple signs, but never really thought why they were on them.

Time to take advantage of these streets!

[TotallyFcked]

Nice... I recently moved to Berkeley. I lived in Philadelphia for a while and had some difficult times riding... I was hit by a car once when I was in a lane (the car made an illegal left turn). I feel very safe riding in Berkeley.

[whiteandgreen]

berkeley kicks an incredibly amount of ass...hardcore

[tumadrelanieves]

btw, there are cars there!!

[theonlytruepunk]

oslo is a Nazi. I oppose Nazis. I was just having fun

[mikokat]

Oh, OK! Lol, I thought you were serious! I reported his to YouTube and hopefully his account will be suspended.

[floydjackson2]

Power to the Pedal!

[BayBoy7]

Yes, but drivers still drive their cars and trucks on them. Occasionally a driver will honk her or his horn (a long honk) at me on one of these bike boulevards. Drivers and their horns...the communication of the inbred.

[video814]

i love berkeley

[berkeleyhome]

BayBoy...you are nothing less than a dickhead, worthy only of becoming a statistic..what are you..19?....when you grow up and learn about the world, come back and say something intelligent.

[BayBoy7]

Hey berkeleyhome, I'm sorry to hear of your crash. I should hope you would then support better traffic engineering on College Avenue, i.e. lighted crosswalks, speed humps, pedestrian crossing signals and traffic lights, bike 'sharrows' (shared lane markings), so that others might not suffer the same slings and arrows. For you to say that 'bikes don't belong on that street' is an unintelligent resignation to, or championing of, car traffic on College Avenue as the dominant transit mode.

[mikokat]

Why don't bikes ever stop at stop signs? I Always see them running stop signs. If I were a cop, I would give the bicyclist a ticket.

[katakanadian]

A cyclist has unimpeded vision (no car frame creating blind spots) and unimpeded hearing (no loud engine or closed windows) and they are travelling slower and they can stop faster. Al cyclists should substantially slow down at stop signs but coming to a full stop des not significantly increase safety they way it does with cars. I drive and cycle and I feel driving is far more dangerous (when one considers both the risk to oneself and others).

[mikokat]

Just to let you guys know, that bikes legally HAVE TO stop at a stop sign. I saw a cop gave a bicyclist a ticket. I suggest you stop to avoid a ticket. I'm pretty sure nobody likes paying $200+ for a traffic ticket.

[keipers]

Most of the time true, but there are a growing number of cities allowing cyclists to treat a stop as a yield when no other vehicles are stopped at the intersection.

[mikokat]

Oh, okay. This was in SF, BTW.

[spookshow916]

well actually the the cops do give cyclists tickets for not stopping at stop signs i just got one today about 1 hour ago

[berkeleyhome]

Truth be told: there are a lot of bike nazis in this town. They want their own streets to ride on PLUS the main thoroughfares. It's an anti-car city and the proof is when someone sued the city to remove all the barricades, won, then the city said they didn't have the money to remove them. I was hit by a car on my bike on College Ave. years ago, and I am here to say, bikes don't belong on that street.

[NunWithAnUzi]

biking, longboarding, walking ect.: clean fast efficant ways of getting around, and anti-car is a good thing, less pollution, less injuries, no dependence on foregin oil, its all good things

[BayBoy7]

Hey berkeleyhome, you said: "I was hit by a car on my bike on College Ave. years ago, and I am here to say, bikes don't belong on that street." Please stop perpetuating your plutocratic misinformation. My bike belongs on any 'surface street' in Oakland or Berkeley, PERIOD. College Ave is perfect for bikes! It's a two-lane, two-way street, with plenty of core, ground-floor neighborhood, retail, a BART station on the Oakland end.

[berzerkeley]

Love this  - my son rides all the way across town to Berkeley Public School every day -- Bike Blvds make it possible!

[BerkeleyBayArea510]

b-town what iz it!!

[gtg501r]

Bicycle Blvds are awful. I just moved to Berkeley and was excited about them, until I rode on them. The problem is: all you do is stop at stop signs. I guess they are safe, but incredibly slow (unless you just blow through the intersections, which is kind of dangerous)

[mabbink]

if you like the concept, check out The Netherlands, especially the cities that have universities (like Utrecht). In those places there are more bikes than people. (And of course the infra structure is optimized for that.)

[MondegreenMom]

So how do we get bikes to used the boulevards and cars not to? I have the utmost respect for the BBs. I live near Milvia and am really frustrated that bikes use MLK and Shattuck instead. Maybe if I understood why I would be more patient.

[wynderful]

I ride on Shattuck a lot. If I'm going from Shattuck and Center to Shattuck and Oregon, it's kind of silly to go two blocks out of my way just for a little more room. Bikes have the right to ride on every street. I encourage you to be patient when driving always, otherwise you put yourself and others in danger.

[MondegreenMom]

I'll try. The ones who frighten me most are the riders on MLK between Rose and Downtown -- please note that the word I used is FRIGHTEN. I don't ever want to harm a cyclist, but there is no room for error there.

[MondegreenMom]

So, 24 hours later I've thought about it -- rather than silly it seems like it would be considerate to ride the extra block each way to take Milvia instead of Shattuck. You have the right not to, but you can also choose to be patient and protect yourself and others.

[BayBoy7]

All you car culture types should encourage more bicycling from a supply-and-demand economics standpoint. If all of these folks were driving instead of biking they would be competing with you in the market of commodities and services for gas, parking, shop time, etc.

[MondegreenMom]

I don't think there's any argument about that. The argument that I got into initially wasn't about sharing the road or encouraging anyone to do anything positive at all. As one who grew up in rural America I love bikes and public transportation.

[wynderful]

I love Bicycle Blvds! Unfortunately, cars don't, but they travel on them anyway. [?] So sometimes it can still be dangerous for bikes when cars go the wrong way through roundabouts or think bikes still shouldn't be there.

Berkeley is still the best place I've ever lived.

[gullwing556]

god, what a piece of shit city.

[StreetsBlog]

If you are going to post a comment like that, at least learn to write properly "their speech". You make yourself look like a buffoon.

[trorb]

Go to streetfilms(dot)org for many, many more bike, pedestrian, and transportation videos.

[Mriggypop]

i love this city , best spot in in all the bay

[titaniumtommy]

I LOVE the bike boulevards and use them often. I came from LA and they don't even have bike lanes...they expect you to fend for yourselves in the sea of Hummers with giant chrome wheels! Agh!! Get out of the way!!

[KungFuDicK]

AWESOME program .every city should be like that, witout that taxi drivers think they own the fucking streets.

[elgeneralsv]

wow wish my city got a brain and did this... we have a few cyclists but the city keeps saying bike lanes are wide elevated sidewalks... (beats me) don't like the fact though that the lanes don't go across town in the movie it looks like they end at some point instead of continuing

[aiden67]

The streets are much smoother than the sidewalks, So I ride my wheelchair in streets. The Bike Boulevards are great for chairs too.

[johnnyonthespot69]

i used to live at mlk and ward, i did critical mass, awsome!