Marin supervisors back Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike-lane experiment

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1. Richmond San Rafael Bridge- NBLC testified at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting in Marin and urged the supervisors to draft a letter of support in moving the bike lane on the RSR Bridge to a pull over lane Monday- Thursday to ease commute times and burden of many Marin employees commuting from the East Bay. The outcome was favorable, and they unanimously approved staff’s recommendation and will to draft a letter of support (attached) and send to the Bay Conservation & Development Commission (BCDC). BCDC is the governing body that can approve a permit to allow this change, and they will take up the vote in December. MTC and BATA have already approved the pilot change.