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Discover 345 miles of walking and biking trails and explore the shoreline with updated Bay Trail Map Cards and a new Bay Trail website.

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OAKLAND, CA — Motivate and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) announced a new major milestone toward the expansion of bike share in the Bay Area today. Motivate has published maps...

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The next generation of environmentalists and climate change scientists gathered at the Youth for the Environment and Sustainability 2016 Conference—or YES Conference—at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of...

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Well over 300 cyclists had passed through the Dublin/Pleasanton BART Energizer Station by 8:30 a.m., collecting their Bike to Work Day bag filled with snacks, maps, coupons and a nifty "Dublin Cycles...

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In Oakland, Bike to Work Day meant more than men in suits. Women in bicycle jerseys, families with kids, couples on tandems and public officials all showed up for a breakfast bash outside City Hall...

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A revised staff proposal unveiled at today’s MTC Administration Committee meeting would add new features to the Bay Area Bike Share expansion plan for the Bay Area. The initial proposal developed in...

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The star of today’s press conference at the MetroCenter was arguably Motivate’s new bike share bike, which will be rolled out first in New York this summer before coming to the Bay Area with the...

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Depending on the magnitude of sea level rise over the coming decades, between 3 percent to 7 percent of Bay Area residents may be vulnerable to rising tides. Even with the most modest forecast for sea...

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“Bring us your tired, your rusty, your broken bicycles.” That’s the motto of MTC’s Bay Area BikeMobile program — a bike repair shop on wheels that appears at schools, libraries and festivals. The van...

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The results are in from the Oakland-San Jose Mayors’ Bike-Off Challenge, an offshoot of Bike to Work Month in May. San Jose Mayor and MTC Commissioner Sam Liccardo took his place at the June...