7.5.2023 ff, Φ SF Bay Area transport issues

Impressions concerning transport issues in the SF Bay Area:

(1) Walking & multiple use

• SF Bay trail, Richmond Bay trail: „Common ground“, „Share the path“; cf. 9.5.2023, 10.5.2023
• Wildcat Canyon multipurpose trail; cf. 24.5.2023
• Richmond / Pogo Park: Yellow Brick Road; cf. 10.5.2023

(2) Cycling

• City of Berkeley: Bike boulevards, https://berkeleyca.gov/city-services/getting-around/walking-and-biking/bike-boulevards: … streets that have been identified as optimal routes for cyclists. These streets discourage cut-through vehicle traffic and prioritize through-traffic by bicycle … https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/Bicycle-Boulevard-Design-Tools-and-Guidelines.pdf: Wilbur Smith Associates (2000): Bicycle Boulevard Design Tools and Guidelines. Prepared for City of Berkeley, Planning and Development Department, Advance Planning Division. Approved by City Council on April 4, 2000, Resolution No. 60,503-N.S.
• „Save Hopkins“ – „Friends of Hopkins Street“, https://savehopkins.org/: … educational and advocacy group formed by and for Hopkins Street residents, neighbors, business owners … The city was proposing a two-way, Class IV (physically separated) bicycle track along the entirety of Hopkins Street … this proposal in this setting is dangerous and inconsistent with the city’s own plan …
• Berkeley – Cycling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California (18.3.2023): Berkeley … one of the highest rates of bicycle and pedestrian commuting in the nation … the safest city of its size in California for pedestrians and cyclists, considering the number of injuries per pedestrian and cyclist, rather than per capita … Berkeley has modified its original grid roadway structure through use of diverters and barriers, moving most traffic out of neighborhoods and onto arterial streets … maintains a separate grid of arterial streets for bicycles, called Bicycle Boulevards, with bike lanes and lower amounts of car traffic … Bicycle and pedestrian paths: Ohlone Greenway … San Francisco Bay Trail … Berkeley I-80 bridge – opened in 2002, an arch-suspension bridge spanning Interstate 80, for bicycles and pedestrians only, giving access from the city at the foot of Addison Street to the San Francisco Bay Trail, the Eastshore State Park and the Berkeley Marina … Berkeley has a network of historic pathways that link the winding neighborhoods found in the hills and offer panoramic lookouts over the East Bay …

(3) Scooters

(4) Public transport

• Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) (April 2023ff): Realign Plan, www.actransit.org/press-release/ac-transit-realign-plan-survey-now-underway: … a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of every bus line within our service network … there has been a paradigm shift in public transit travel patterns in the wake of the pandemic, which has cut AC Transit’s ridership almost in half and led to significant budget shortfalls … we must analyze every mile of where our service is currently operating; better understand the mobility needs …; and ultimately, how to realign bus lines against a backdrop of bus operator shortages and dwindling funds … will also record and incorporate the personal and detailed experiences of riders through a comprehensive survey, public meetings, and one-on-one conversations created in partnership with community-based organizations …
• UCB „Loop“, https://dac.berkeley.edu/services/mobility-accommodations/loop-golf-cart: a golf cart that provides intra-campus rides for eligible faculty, staff, and students with disabilities … This service was created to assist students with mobility disabilities (including temporary disability as a result of injury) and visual impairments … It has since has extended to serve disabled staff and vistors, and to run during additional hours and times of the year …
• San Francisco, Salesforce Park: sitting above a major bus transit center; cf. 18.5.2023.

(5) Other issues

• Kiwibots on UCB campus. Carolyn Said (2019_05_26): Kiwibots win fans at UC Berkeley as they deliver fast food at slow speeds. www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Kiwibots-win-fans-at-UC-Berkeley-as-they-deliver-13895867.php: Four-wheeled, cooler-size Kiwibots are a familiar sight at UC Berkeley as they ferry burritos, Big Macs and bubble tea to students … overall, Berkeley has been a welcoming test bed for the fleet of up to 40 robots that have permission to operate on the campus and nearby neighborhoods.

6.5.2023 ff, Φ University of California, Berkeley (UCB) campus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley: … public … research university … Established in 1868 … the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 32,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students … The university founded and maintains relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos … and has played a role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project … to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics … Ten faculty members and 40 male students made up the fledgling university when it opened in Oakland in 1869 … The university began admitting women the following year …

UC Berkeley School of Public Health, formerly located in Haviland Hall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley_School_of_Public_Health: … one of fourteen schools and colleges … Established in 1943 …it was the first school of public health west of the Mississippi River … Key laboratories … during the middle of the century were the Naval Biological Laboratory, which focused primarily on aerobiology and related microbial research, and the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory which, maintained with the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, pioneered inquiry in the Environmental Health Sciences … The school … played a direct role in community health for years, working with the unified school district, Visiting Nurse Association, and city to provide health services to the Berkeley community through the Berkeley Unified Health Plan …

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley_College_of_Environmental_Design: … located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus … In 1894, Bernard Maybeck was appointed instructor in drawing at the Civil Engineering College of the University of California …

https://ced.berkeley.edu/: Architecture; Landscape architecture & Environmental Planning; City & Regional Planning; Institute of Urban and Regional Development

UCB campus:

• Sather Tower, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower: … a bell tower with clocks on its four faces … more commonly known as The Campanile … for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice … In 2017, a pair of peregrine falcons began nesting on top … followed by webcams and the Cal Falcons social media project …
• Sather Gate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Gate: … a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of … campus … Originally, the gate served as the terminus of Telegraph Avenue, and marked the university’s south entrance … part of the historic Sproul Plaza, a major center for student activity that housed many protests throughout the Free Speech Movement …
• Doe Memorial Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley_Libraries: built in 1910, originally housed the main collections. A strictly Beaux-Arts Classical building … designed by campus architect John Galen Howard as one of the original structures in the “Athens of the West” campus plan … today … Doe serves as the library system’s reference, periodical, and administrative center …
• UCB Richmond Field Station (RFS), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Field_Station: … a satellite campus … in Richmond, California. The name was changed to the Richmond Bay Campus (RBC) in 2012 and then Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay (BGC) in October 2014, reflecting plans to expand the site to address global issues, first as a second campus for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory …, then as an expansion of the main campus in Berkeley itself. In 2016, the expansion plans were suspended and the name reverted to Richmond Field Station … Starting from the 1950s, UC Berkeley conducted large-scale engineering research at RFS for projects which were not suited for the central campus …, including research in solid waste and sewage, transportation and lighting, and beach erosion … … Environmental Engineering and Health Sciences Laboratory … Earthquake Engineering Research Center … Northern Regional Library Facility …

Cf.:

• Nov-Dec 1984 Tests: TOEFL, GRE; Application to UCB-SPH
• 1985-1989 Graduate studies of Public Health (MPH) and Epidemiology (Ph.D.)
• 15 Aug 1985 Master of Public Health (MPH) program in Berkeley, CA
• 25 Aug 1986 1986-1989 Ph.D. program in Epidemiology in Berkeley, CA