Save big and get gear for more time outdoors at the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store! Everyone needs an excuse to spend more time outside exploring our neighborhoods these days - get the gear and supplies you need to do so safely. Walk Oakland Bike Oakland supporters are exclusively invited to shop at Columbia Sportswear's private employee store in Richmond from September 1st - September 30th only. Columbia donates a percentage of sales to WOBO. WIN-WIN!

All you need to enter is this email, your photo id, and the invitation flier (download here). *Up to four guests can join in on the great savings.**Please note that the store has safety measures in place for your safety - face coverings are required while shopping.

The Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT) needs your input for the Grand Avenue Mobility Plan to create a corridor that reinforces fair and just treatment, and safety for all.

There are two ways for you to engage right now:

1) a survey and
2) an interactive web map

The survey will ask questions about how you use Grand Avenue and about your visions for the street in the future.The web map will allow you to drop points on the corridor where you experience issues. Please visit https://bit.ly/oaklandgrandave to help create a community-led vision for Grand Avenue.

On August 9th AC Transit's new long-awaited BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) service aka Tempo began operating along International Boulevard from the San Leandro border to downtown.  Best of all, bikes can be rolled on board and right into a bike rack inside the bus.  See here for more information about Tempo.

WOBO encourages all to give this new service a try as a way of taking more cars off the streets.  You can ride fare-free for the first 90 days so come on out!

Reminder that the 2020 census is scheduled to complete operations at the end of this month.  We urge everyone who has not completed a census form to please do so before Sept 30 to make sure you're counted - census data helps determine how public funds are allocated and it's important that cyclists and pedestrians have a say.  To complete your census online see https://my2020census.gov/.

The election is fast approaching, so please make sure you're registered to vote in Alameda County to have a say in local measures, office-holders etc.  To register online, or verify you're already registered, please see https://registertovote.ca.gov/.