Telegraph Avenue in Oakland is finally getting its long-awaited separated bike lanes.
Crews were out adding the first touches of green paint. In the next week or so, they will continue painting the section of Telegraph between 21st and 27th, Oakland's first experiment with parking-separated bike lanes.
![Workers pull up stencils on green lane markings. All photos: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog](http://sf.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/04/Stencil.jpg)
Bike East Bay will have ambassadors on the street starting next week to greet people and help them figure out the new parking configuration, which will be a foreign concept to many. Instead of parking along the curb, cars will be parked to the left of the new bike lane, which could take some getting used to.
![The bike lane will continue through the bus stops, with a buffer to the left for passing when safe. The box below the word "bus" will be painted green.](http://sf.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/04/BusStopTreatmentcropped.jpg)