05/09/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/09/2024 16:34
Ride your bicycle to several Berkeley-based energizer stations for free coffee, snacks, repairs, and giveaways. Use our bike boulevards, paths, dedicated lanes or other routes.
Ride your bike to work, run errands, take kids to school, or see family and friends as part of Bay Area Bike to Wherever Days, a regional celebration of biking, a sustainable means of transportation, accessible to individuals of all ages and income levels.
Use your ride to stop at a site across Berkeley with volunteers handing out coffee, snacks, and commemorative tote bags. Called "energizer stations," these sites will host live music, give out prizes, or, in some spots, even do a bike check-up and minimal repair.
To help plan your trip, use our bike boulevards, calmed streets stretching across Berkeley that are engineered to discourage cut-through vehicle traffic and prioritize through-traffic by bicycle.
This year is the 30th anniversary of Bay Area Bike to Wherever Day, which the City sponsors and was formerly known as Bike to Work Day.
Join the entire Bay Area on May 16 to support a healthy, climate-friendly, and fun way to move through Berkeley!
Visit one of sixteen energizer stations in Berkeley to receive free food, beverages, and biking swag or meet friendly, knowledgeable volunteers passionate about bicycling in Berkeley and the Bay Area.
Use an online map to see hours, features, and locations for Berkeley's energizer stations, which include the following:
Plan a visit to your most convenient energizer station in Berkeley using an online map. You can also visit one of the many other energizer stations located throughout the Bay Area.
The City of Berkeley's Public Works Department maintains and improves city streets to make bicycling, walking, and rolling comfortable and convenient for all ages and abilities.
The City continues its improvements to make Berkeley a model bicycle-friendly city, as outlined in the Berkeley Bicycle Plan approved by the City Council in 2017.
This year, the City is constructing the Southside Complete Streets Project, which will provide concrete curb-protected bike lanes and other improvements on segments of Bancroft Way, Fulton Street, and Dana Street. The City is also planning and designing the Telegraph Avenue Multimodal Corridor Project, the Woolsey-Fulton Bicycle Boulevard Project, and the Ohlone Greenway Safety Improvements Project, among several projects, which will all provide safer bikeways throughout Berkeley.
Get on your bike on May 16 and come join us!