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Ben Gerhardstein

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Safe streets advocate with Walk Bike Berkeley. Dad. Gluten fiend. Weekend warrior.

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City of Berkeley @berkeleyca.gov · 30/09/2026
Interested in the future of affordable housing in South Berkeley? Join us October 1, 5–7pm, to hear from two teams being considered to develop future affordable housing at the Ashby BART East Lot. Listen to their presentations and share your feedback. Read more:
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Oct. 1: Give input on Ashby BART affordable housing developer | City of Berkeley
Attend in-person event Oct. 1 at 5pm to hear presentations and give feedback. Selected developer will design and build new housing at the Ashby BART East Lot. Meet and give feedback on each of the two developers proposing to build affordable housing at the Ashby BART station’s East Parking Lot.Each team will present on their credentials, experience, and past projects, and will answer questions from the audience. Attendees can share feedback on the developers’ qualifications using a survey during the event. A developer will be selected in the coming months. That team would later present designs for public feedback.
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CalBike @calbike.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good news: Governor Newsom signed SB 1167! Authored by Senator Catherine Blakespear and co-sponsored by CalBike, the new law draws a clear line between legal e-bikes and high-powered electric devices too often marketed as e-bikes.
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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Want a smooth, safe Hopkins Street? Send a letter to City Council! 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Make Hopkins smooth and safe for all!
The bottom line: On July 28, Berkeley City Council will vote on whether to repave Hopkins Street with pedestrian, bicycle, and transit improvements (including protected bike lanes). Please send them ...
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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This funding will help deliver Berkeley’s Adeline Street Quick-Build project, which will add separated bikeways for 0.6 miles between the Oakland border and Ashby BART!
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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
JOB: Berkeley is hiring a new Transportation Division Manager! Please share widely. The City needs a leader committed to Vision Zero and sustainable transportation! wbcp.applicantpool.com/jobs/1182604
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Traffic Violence Rapid Response @tvrr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A driver killed our neighbor Michael Burawoy last night while he was crossing Grand Ave in the crosswalk in front of Fairyland Our hearts reach out to his family, friends, students, and everyone else mourning this tremendous loss www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...
Photo of Michael Burawoy from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burawoy
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Ben Gerhardstein @ben-gerhardstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hell yeah, protected intersections are very brat
“brat” stencil on green bike lane in a protected intersection
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Ben Gerhardstein @ben-gerhardstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Brought dry socks and shoes for him to change into at school.
Kid on a bike in rain gear
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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Our statement on Elise Lusk’s tragic death.
Walk Bike Berkeley is deeply upset that Elise Lusk was killed when a motorist hit her as she walked across Ada Street at California Street on January 26. A trip to the grocery store should not end in tragedy. Ms. Lusk’s preventable death again highlights that the City must redouble its Vision Zero efforts to eliminate severe and fatal collisions. We call on the City to quickly install simple, proven measures to slow vehicle traffic and protect pedestrians in response to this and other recent collisions.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Charge me with ageism if you will, but nearly every serious/fatal pedestrian crash in Berkeley involves a driver born before Eisenhower was president.
After a motorist fatally struck a 66-year-old Berkeley woman Sunday, three council members are asking staff to study adding stop signs to intersections like the one where it happened.

The driver, an 87-year-old Oakland woman, pinned Elise B. Lusk under a car at Ada and California streets, near Monterey Market, around 1 p.m., police said. The Berkeley Fire Department extricated Lusk, 66, and took her to Highland Hospital but she died from her injuries, police said.

Councilmembers Mark Humbert, Shoshana O’Keefe and Brent Blackaby drew parallels between the intersection where Lusk was killed and the intersection of Derby and Mabel streets where a driver on Halloween 2023 struck a 7-year-old trick-or-treater, breaking the boy’s femur, fracturing his pelvis and lacerating his head.

“Something these two intersections appear to have in common is the presence of traffic diverters without stop signs,” according to a proposal for further study that’s likely to go before the whole council in February. “Since there is generally no oncoming traffic, drivers may treat such intersections differently from intersections with through traffic in all directions.”
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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We are deeply upset by this horrible news of another pedestrian death in our community. Holding all who knew and loved Elise Lusk in our thoughts.
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BART @bart.gov · 16/01/2025
Hey YOU, wanna help improve bike access to BART?! The BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force has vacancies for people who live or work in all five counties served by BART: San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara. Join TODAY! Check out the flyer: www.bart.gov/sites/defaul...
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Ben Gerhardstein @ben-gerhardstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Yay!
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Ben Gerhardstein @ben-gerhardstein.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Hit the Berkeley lottery. My block getting smoothened as I type.
Paving equipment in a residential street
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Ben Gerhardstein @ben-gerhardstein.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
#nobikes in the chicago burbs
No bikes sign on a public two lane road
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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We appreciate Councilmember Hahn acknowledging yesterday’s tragic pedestrian fatality on Rose Street. However, she has not shown a commitment to safe streets. She was the ONLY councilmember that did not support Measure FF, which is designed to help prevent such collisions. 🧵
Screenshot of Sophie Hahn’s Facebook post stating “I am heartbroken over the just-announced death of a pedestrian in District 5. Sending my condolences to his family and continuing my commitment to reducing injuries and fatalities on our streets.”
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