Is Oakland Bicycle Friendly?

At the end of December, Oakland will mark the conclusion of a 16-month period in which more bikeways were added to city streets than in the previous 35 years. 

With an eye on more grants and greater recognition as a bicycle friendly community, the Oakland City Council's Public Works Committee was scheduled to certify Tuesday that the city's five-year-old Bicycle Master Plan is current and in compliance with state law. 

In addition to touting the 28 miles of new bikeway striping completed since the fall of 2011, a report accompanying the resolution notes other achievements in the area of municipal bike-friendliness: 

• Fourth by the amount of bicycle parking spaces per capita (following Minneapolis, Washington, DC, and Jacksonville);
• Sixth by the percentage of residents bicycling to work (following Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, and Sacramento);
• Sixteenth by miles of bike lanes per square mile of area.

Do you ride your bike in Oakland? Do you think the city is more bike friendly than it was five years ago? 

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