Previously, if you requested a Hopkins yard sign then you received email updates from Libby via her personal email address, but copy-pasting over 400 email addresses into the BCC field was becoming cumbersome, so we're going to be using this service moving forward.

If you showed up for Hopkins bike lanes on March 12: THANK YOU! If you couldn’t make it, here’s a recap:

On Thursday afternoon, March 12, more than 200 students, families, and community members of all ages assembled on Hopkins Street in North Berkeley to demand the City of Berkeley follow through on its already-approved plans to upgrade Hopkins with new protected bike lanes and improvements for pedestrians and transit riders. The demonstrators cheered, danced, blew bubbles, and held up signs to express strong community support.

The atmosphere was festive, but the message was serious: protected bike lanes on Hopkins are essential for equitable street safety. They will ensure safe passage to school for children, improve the shopping experience for local businesses, and reduce vehicle speeds — making the street safer for everyone.

The community is aghast that Berkeley City Council members O’Keefe and Kesarwani are proposing to repave Hopkins without the planned bike lanes. The proposal ignores hundreds of thousands of dollars and over a year spent on planning, meetings with local residents and business, and public engagement. We will not allow this vital work and investment to be dismissed.

We will continue pushing to ensure the community gets the bike safety improvements that we deserve on Hopkins and across Berkeley. Stay tuned for updates on our next actions - meetings, bike demonstrations and parties, and more!

Check out this Hopkins information handout* for more information and use #BikeSafeBerkeley when you post on social media about Safety for ALL on Hopkins.

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* if you’d like to print and distribute handouts yourself, here’s a PDF for that. Just print 2-sided and cut in half.