Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Rich City Rides

A prayer card for a Ride of Silence participant in Richmond. Photo: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

This Year’s Ride of Silence Will Be DIY

By Melanie Curry | May 19, 2020 | No Comments

Every third Wednesday of May, in communities all over the globe, people come together to ride in silence to honor and commemorate cyclists who have been killed on the road. The rides are solemn, sedate, and moving, and this year they will not be done in big groups.

Rich City Rides Bike Club members have distributed over 1,000 meals during the stay-at-home orders. Photo by Najari Smith

Rich City Rides Shows How to Take Care of Your Community

By Melanie Curry | May 1, 2020 | No Comments

The bike/skate shop/community space hosts a youth-led Bike Club, whose members have been helping the school district pack and distribute meals to students who can't access them because school is not in session.

Riders on the bridge when it first opened two years ago Photo by Melanie Curry/ Streetsblog

Bike/Pedestrian Path on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Is Finally Open

By Melanie Curry | Nov 18, 2019 | No Comments

"Who will ride it?" The several thousand people who showed up to cross the San Francisco Bay on the path's opening day answered that question pretty clearly

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The Battle for the Richmond Bridge Bike Path

By Melanie Curry | Nov 15, 2019 | No Comments

At long last, Saturday will see the opening of the Richmond San Rafael Bridge bike path. By some counts, the fight for the path has gone on for close to fifty years.

The protesters outside the mayor's office in Oakland City Hall. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless indicated

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Rich City Rides’s Rally Against Police Misconduct

By Roger Rudick | Aug 27, 2018 | No Comments

Advocates assemble at Oakland City Hall to lend support to Najari Smith, arrested and jailed for 'loud music' during an organized ride earlier this month