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Check out these excellent photos from Bike to Work Day 2009. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our pool!

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The City of Walnut Creek formally unveiled their Plug-in Electric Charging Stations located at the North and  South Locust Street garages, and at the Broadway Parking Garage.  Mayor Pro Tem Sue Rainey cut the cloth to unveil the ChargePoint electric charging station developed by Coulomb Technologies.  511 Contra Costa provided the Keep reading >>

The future of bike commuting continues to look better and better.  As bike commuting and biking in general continue to get better and safer due to more bike infrastructure and more cyclists taking to the streets even more people will be prompted to give bike commuting a try.

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Cascade Bicycle Club, a Seattle based organization has launched a new on-line collaborative mapping tool which allows users to report and learn about bicycle crashes, hazards and thefts.   While bikewise still has no data points in Contra Costa County, with enough user participation it could become an extremely useful tool. Keep reading >>

East Bay Municipal Utility District will be conducting pipeline work in the vicinity of Pleasant Hill Road near Acalanes High School. In order to conduct the work, single lane closures will be expected on southbound Pleasant Hill Rd from Springhill Rd to Acalanes Rd beginning June 15th, 2009.  Work hours Keep reading >>

Here’s your chance to pore over the newest data on BART ridership.  This survey is the largest ever done by BART (polling more than 50,000 riders!) and the first since 1998.  The data was collected between April 2 and May 8, 2008.

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The first of 1,100 new solar powered bus shelters was unveiled yesterday in San Francisco.  The solar power generated by the structure’s wavy red roof will be used to power LED lighting, the NextBus display, intercom and wireless routers.

You can check out the full story on SF Streets Blog Keep reading >>