Contacts - Community Resources
Last update 8-08-06, 6:00pm
www.businessimagegroup.com, brand strategy for buildings
www.sfimages.com, San Francisco photography
NOTE: called the Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Team (I was on that team a year or so ago) that is tasked with traffic/speeding issues in the Hills. We purchased the Drive 25 signs you see along the roads. This group was concentrating on traffic issues around Montclair schools first, but we can also leverage this team for our issues on Skyline. - from DM, 8-2-06
Roger Vickery, chair of MSIC
http://www.montclairsic.org/index.htm
http://www.montclairsic.org/pedestriansafety.htm
Main priority is emergency preparedness
(http://www.oaklandcore.org)
"Our local Neighborhood CORE group has written letters to the police regarding speeding along our stretch of Skyline, in the 9000 block between Ascot and Castle. We have not received any responses from these letters and emails, except from Jean Quan's office....I have lived here for 21 years, and have never seen anyone get a speeding ticket on Skyline Blvd. I think the speeders would hesitate to speed if they say a police officer with a radar gun on occasion, or just an occasional police officer driving on the street. And the irony is that I'm sure every police officer in Oakland knows that Skyline is a speeder's paradise! "
- Per EG, 8-02-06
Helen Wyman
Executive Director
Montclair Village Association
Office: 510-339-1000 Fax: 510-339-2368
Justin:
justice@wojcyclery.com
URL of the
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/06/BAG2AKBADG1.DTL&hw=skyline+cyclist&sn=001&sc=1000
Jim Herron Zamora
San Francisco Chronicle / Oakland Bureau
510-433-5990 direct
510-433-5980 Oakland bureau
415-777-7102 Chronicle main newsroom
Sherry Hu Reporter KPIX Hu@kpix.cbs.com Channel 5 (CBS) East Bay Bureau
Ann Notarangelo Reporter KPIX Notarangelo@kpix.cbs.com Channel 5 (925) 938-1397 cell phone (415) 760 6247
Brian Dismore Assignment Editor KPIX dinsmore@kpix.cbs.com Channel 5 (415) 765-8610
Noel Cisneros Reporter KGO Noel.Cisneros@abc.com Channel 7 (ABC) East Bay
Geoff Glaub Assignment Editor KGO Geoff.Glaub@abc.com (415) 954-7321
Tom Newton Assignment Editor KRON Newton@kron.com Channel 4 (IND.) (415 561-8905
Joe Rosato Producer KNTV Joe.Rosato@nbc.com Channel 3 / 11 (NBC) San Francisco (415) 276-1100
Joie Tamkin Planning Editor Joie.Tamkin@nbc.com Channel 3 / 11 (NBC)
Jon Bristow KGO AM Jon.L.Bristow@abc.com Jon.Bristow@-sf.com (415) 954-8142
Dory Culver KCBS AM doryculver@hotmail.com (415) 765-4113 (415) 765-4074
Oakland Tribune 510 208-6400 - ask for Metro Desk
Harry Harris Oakland Tribune Public Safety (510) 208-6443 hharris@angnewspapers.com
The family ( of Ed Weiss) has asked that contributions be made to the EBBC in honor of Ed Weiss. To donate with a credit card using Acteva URL:
http://www.acteva.com/ttghits.cfm?EVA_ID=19286
-Robert Raburn, Executive Director
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East Bay Bicycle Coalition www.ebbc.org
PO Box 1736 tel:(510)530-3444
Oakland, CA 94604 fax:(510)336-1604
info msg:(510)433-RIDE (7433)
"To promote bicycling as an everyday means
of transportation and recreation"
Oakland Yellow Jackets Bicycle Club (Nancy and I are members) who is trying to get more signs put up along Skyline.
/per DM.
Grizzly Peak Cyclists
• Royal Coffee House
• "The Wall" - near Grizzly Peak area
Question: how can cycling groups assist in dissuading high-speed racing from occurring on Skyline?
Suzuki of Oakland - (formerly Schneider Motors)
510-569-5520
8-1-06: Per Bill in the parts department, we understand that the owner of this shop may be willing to assist in rider education and prevention programs as possible to mitigate problems of dangerous riders, or riders purchasing and using bikes without proper experience or using them at speeds inappropriate to residential areas. In other words, that they could be encouraged to only use such bikes "at speed" in places where they were intended to be used that way: a racing track.
Owner: Jacques Geoffrion, long time m/c enthusiast -
suzukiofoakland.com
This store seems sympathetic to this issue. Larger "volume dealers" may not care as much about this and may tend to sell over-amped motorcycles to anyone with the $$ -
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Other MBike resources:
Motorcycle Safety Foundation
M/C BLOG-SITE: www.barf.com
Per RS: I've been in contact with the owner of BARF, Bud: bud.netmoto@gmail.com and he is quite willing to post notices on the site.
Reference: Doc Wong:
Doc Wong, organized motorcycle safety activities aimed at reducing accidents and deaths on Old La Honda road and
Skyline Blvd. on the Peninsula. They have been been successful at raising awareness of the consequences of unsafe riding and reducing the frequency of accidents. Usually, if a motorcyclist screws up, they get the worst of it by going off the road or hitting a car (which are the two most common scenarios on La Honda), but if there is a lot of pedestrian and bicycle traffic, then they are even more vulnerable than the motorcyclist (as evidenced by the recent tragic events).
these links have threads from their community that you may find of interest
At least one skyline resident has commented to this site
http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2bf3caa5e663d277351d69cdb067b3b0&threadid=173297
http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2bf3caa5e663d277351d69cdb067b3b0&threadid=172762
http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2bf3caa5e663d277351d69cdb067b3b0&threadid=173632
http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=2bf3caa5e663d277351d69cdb067b3b0&threadid=173536
see Education - Traffic
The City of San Ramon - http://www.ci.san-ramon.ca.us/transp/calming.htm.
traffic calming handbook from a FL county: http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/publicworks/traffic/resources/publications/residentialtrafficcalminghandbook.pdf
article on traffic surveillance cameras in the Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/02.06.97/traffic-camera-9706.html
West Sacramento - step by step Residential Traffic Calming Program: http://www.cityofwestsacramento.org/cityhall/departments/comdev/Documents/Eng_Traffic.pdf
On this DOT website of various programs : http://www.ite.org/traffic/tcresources.htm
We may need to get a program established for the City through a resolution or ordinance! Here's an example: http://fnnc.org/traffic.html