Berkeley taxpayers stuck with another $60,000 bill for downtown bike station

Downtown developers, including the University of California, and patrons of the bike station itself should be funding this facility. The overtaxed Berkeley taxpayer should be a last resort, not the piggy bank of first resort.

Berkeley Bike Station Contract Extended — For Now
(That goes double for any city subsidy of automobile parking facilities, although I'm not aware of any specific subsidies of that nature.)

Video highlights: Berkeley Transportation Commission 11/15/12

Video highlights from Berkeley Transportation Commission meeting 11/15/12: Caldecott/Hwy 13 Mitigation Projects Update. (8-1/2 minutes)

Podcast: Berkeley Transportation Commission 11/15/12

Caldecott/Hwy 13 Mitigation Projects Update; Berkeley Transportation Action Plan (BTAP) Update; Measure B Funding Status Update (3 hour, 38 minute stereo recording, 200MB). Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission Meeting 9/20/12

Caldecott Fourth Bore Mitigation Projects, Slide Presentation, update; Traffic Calming Policy; Parking Sign Clarity; Transportation Commission Work Plan 2012 (3 hour, 9 minute stereo recording, 173MB). Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission meeting 6/16/11

Joint Workshop with Public Works Commission on Right of Way Modernization and Better Streets Program; Electric Vehicle Charging; Update on West Street Path Project. (3 hours, 55 minute stereo recording, 432MB). Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission meeting 7/15/10

Caldecott 4th Bore Settlement Fund Projects; Transportation Demand Management Subcommittee (40:04 stereo recording, 73MB) Listen.

Podcast: Transportation Commission special meeting 7/15/10

Joint Meeting with West Berkeley Project Area Committee: West Berkeley Transportation Services Fee Nexus Study; West Berkeley Parking and TDM (2:04:48 stereo recording, 228MB) Listen.

Above-ground Berkeley Bike Station opens

SF Streetsblog has the story. That's me holding my daughter's pink coat in the photo at the bottom.