The way points of this bicycle route:
Santa Clara has a bike lane and is pretty civilized as long as you don't mind sharing with buses. I sometimes take this route when I want to be sure of getting a space in the bike rack on a AC Transit 51 bus heading for the tube- it gets you ahead of the rush on Webster Av
Park St is a commercial district with a lot of cool stores. Not a good street to bike down since the lanes are narrow and there are lots of cars. I go up Park if I want to shop and up Oak if I don't.
There's a good general bike shop, Alameda Bicycle, here. There's also a road-bike-only shop back on Santa Clara and a custom recumbent makers someplace nearby.
bike lane mysteriously gets routed *onto the sidewalk* here? WTF!? At this point I accelerate, take a lane, and keep it until I'm past the bridge.
This bridge is really the only reasonable way to get between Alameda to Oakland by bike. The other two bridges have perforated metal roadways, which means you pretty much have to walk the bike across the sidewalk (or disregard the signs that say you must), and the Webster/Harrison (Posey) Tube is noisy narrow and sooty).
BART station planners/consultants intended for bikes to go up around the parking garage, but you have to dismount and walk a ways (past the very cool BikeStation), but I find there's a lot less traffic going down E 10th and coming in across the taxi and bus area- you can get right up to BART the entrance without dismounting.
