Big Win for Bikes and Peds in Berkeley

Walk Bike Berkeley was quoted in the article Big Win for Bikes and Peds in Berkeley in Streetsblog.

“But getting the vote passed wasn’t easy; the council deliberated until 11: 30 p.m. Some 15 advocates from Walk Bike Berkeley, Bike East Bay, and the Cal Berkeley Democrats, came to speak in favor (nobody spoke against it). “We had a great group of people who stuck it out; these things are epic,” said Ben Gerhardstein, coordinating committing member and co-founder of Walk Bike Berkeley, who was there for the duration. “Berkeley professes to be working under a climate emergency… and transportation emissions are our top contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. So this is fully, squarely on point for addressing those issues.”

Read the full article by Roger Rudnick here.