Back to Berkeley. Always love seeing the Allston signs.
Berkeley seems to have had its own "roar of the four" where BART now runs underground.
Center and Shattuck
AC Transit not afraid to experiment with bus models (mostly Van Hool):
I think nearly every bus I got on board had a different layout. So weird.
Musician crossing:
BART Art:
(the 70s sucked here too)
Finally a good use for one of BART's idiotic park and ride stations in the middle of Berkeley:
This land is "so worthless" that it only costs $1/day to park. In the middle of affluent North Berkeley. BART planning is so ridiculously incompetent it boggles the mind. Yeah, that brown hump is a station in the middle of the crater.
Some actually decent planning from BART, the Ohlone greenway:
(some kind of food truck festival going on next door)
The up-to-date parts were fairly decent. Minus the trademark "BART Screech" of course, every few minutes.
An older section through a pre-existing park:
University Ave:
The path is kinda-sorta-terribly connected to Richmond (okay, so we had to dash across a wide highway-like street without any nearby traffic signal, then we had to do some kind of weird loopy-loop following confusing bike lanes/sharrows on a grade separation/highway ramp between BART and highways that even locals couldn't figure out -- one of them was riding the wrong way on our bike lane and almost collided with me -- not to mention the part where the path just went to dirt before disappearing into a tunnel under BART...) but it's great through El Cerrito at least.
Richmond seems to have their own thing going on:
I should have taken a picture but across the tracks must be the world's largest basketball court. Could be hundreds of hoops. No idea.
Richmond is also a connection to Amtrak.