For the second straight year, Sustainability Organizer Jack Lin staffed a energizer station in front of Laney College on Bike to Work Day. While counting the number of cyclists who passed the 9th and Fallon Street intersection, Mr. Lin also gave passing cyclists musette bags as a token of appreciation for riding their bikes to work and to school.
Amongst the 200 riders counted this morning were a number of Laney students, and faculty/staff. Rondell Cramer, riding a BMX bike, was on his way to the Childcare Center to drop off his son – also on a BMX bike – before going to class. Deaunte White cruised in on a teal 12-speed Bianchi Boardwalk. Leonard Hutton rolled through with a spring-green Santa Cruz hardtail mountain bike. Darnell Johnson arrived from the Downtown Oakland Bike-To-Work Day East Bay rally point on his classic 12-speed Centurion “Ironman Dave Scott” road bike.
A handful of Laney faculty and staff also rode their bikes. Staff Assistant to Vice President of Student Services Lisa Aaron sported a pink scarf and matching pink Croc shoes while riding a powder blue cruiser. Culinary Arts Instructor and Department Chair David Jones rode, as he does nearly everyday, from the Grand Lake area. Physics professor Dr. Neil Allen Nicol and spouse ESL instructor Lynda Nicol rolled in from the Berkeley area to teach their morning classes. ESL faculty member Nikki Ellman, also a regular bike commuter, rode from North Oakland.
“Based on the number of bicycles parked at Laney and at Berkeley City College, there’s probably a good 300 people who ride their bikes to campus every day,” says Mr. Lin. “It’s one of my favorite days of the year, saying hi and appreciating all the bike riders, a lot of whom are do this every sunny day.”
Bike-to-Work Day in the Bay Area is organized by the East Bay Bike Coalition, San Francisco Bike Coalition, Silicon Valley Bike Coalition, and Marin County Bike Coalition.
