BikeAlameda Estuary Crossing

Join our Monthly Meetings

When: 7PM third Monday of every month

Where: Otaez Restaurant on Webster between Lincoln and Pacific. We usually meet at the tables in the back of the restaurant.

Why: Come hear how our campaign to build an alternative estuary crossing is going.

Mission

Our mission is to find effective, economical transportation alternatives across the estuary, between Alameda's West End and Oakland, and help get them implemented.
Our Goals

Ensure that the Alamedan Landing project contains legal wording to have a pedestrian and bicycle water shuttle to jack London Square. this will be through the Transportation Demand Management funds. DONE 12/5/2006
Ensure that the city completes a feasibility study within one year to assess the most viable means for an estuary crossing. This will enable us to evaluate the Transportation Demand management funds. DONE 12/2006
Build a coalition of organizations who feel strongly that an alternate estuary crossing for peds and bikes is needed. INPROGRESS

Join us for our first meeting in January where we will be deciding our goals for 2007!

More detailed information

Our Estuary Crossing map (See just how close everything is)
Our Bike Count Totals

Park Street Bridge
Posey Tube
Press Packet - download this if you want to join our coalition , too.

What you can do

JOIN our coalition. When we publicly talk about our campaign and the need for the estuary water shuttle, we will use the names of those groups in our coalition.

Write a letter of support
Involve a member on our committee. We currently meet monthly: 3rd Monday of the Month at Otaez Restaurant, 1414 Webster Street at Lincoln Avenue, at 7PM.
Join our discussion list. (See side bar)

Coalition members

East Bay Bicycle Coalition (800 members)
Alameda Point Collaborative (200 residents;25 employees)
Pedestrian Friendly Alameda (25 members)
Sierra Club
Northside neighborhood network (100 members)
Alameda open Space (50 members)
Alameda Sun
Oakland Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Waterfront Action
Taylor Engineering - Marina Village, Alameda(16 employees)

Email discussion lists

Join the announceestuarycrossing list if you:

are a coalition member group
want to receive minutes of the monthly meetings
want to receive monthly meeting announcements
want to receive announcements of public meetings where your advocacy can help us.

Join the discussestuarycrossing list if you:

want to give input on our direction and on specific things that we are doing in between meetings
want to receive minutes of the monthly meetings
want to receive monthly meeting announcements
want to receive announcements of public meetings where your advocacy can help us.

Send an empty e-mail message to the Discussion or Announcement-Only processing addresses.

These email lists function very similarly to the discuss and announce bikealameda lists.

You do not need to join both groups.

News articles

Read More about what we have been up to in our blog