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Bike to Work Day 2008

Thursday, May 15, 2008

• Oakland Does Bike to Work Day in Style
• The Peninsula/South Bay Scene
• CoCo County Goes “Cuckoo” for Bike to Work Day

Numbers Surge for Bike to Work Day, Despite the Heat
Spurred on by skyrocketing gas prices, concerns about global warming and the fact that it was also an official “Spare the Air” day, a record number of cyclists turned out for Bike to Work Day on May 15, 2008, according to event organizers.

Concerned by predictions of high temperatures, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a Spare the Air advisory for May 15, the first of the 2008 smog season. The call to ride public transit and bikes instead of driving no doubt helped to boost participation in Bike to Work Day, despite the sweltering heat. Read more…

Bike-to-Work Day, San Francisco Photo by Noah Berger Bike-to-Work Day 2008, San Francisco Photo by Noah Berger Bike-to-Work Day, San Francisco Photo by Noah Berger Lee Taubeneck, Caltrans, and Bijan Sartipi, Caltrans District 4 Director, Oakland City Center Photo by Sean Co, MTC Energizer Station, Telegraph Ave., Berkeley Photo by Sean Co, MTC Energizer Station, North Berkeley BART, Berkeley Photo by Sean Co, MTC

Oakland City Center Photo by Paisley Strellis, MTC Oakland City Center Photo by Paisley Strellis, MTC Energizer Station, College Ave. at Claremont, Oakland Photo by Karin Betts, MTC Biking Baby, Oakland City Center Photo by Karin Betts, MTC Bicycling family, Oakland City Center Photo by Karin Betts

Previous Bike-to-Work Day Galleries:

• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004