El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll

Travel, shop, and live locally

Join El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll (ECRA Walk & Roll) in advocating for mobility choice — streets that safely welcome sustainable, equitable, and alternatives to the automobile for both necessary and fun local travel in El Cerrito and adjacent neighborhoods.

ECRA Walk & Roll believes that the future of personal transportation for the Bay Area can't just be two- or three-ton cars, even if they are electric. Forty-two percent of travel trips in America are for two miles or less. In El Cerrito, where geographically nothing is very far from anything else, it shouldn't be necessary to drive a freeway-grade car to get to BART, get a haircut, or pick up a prescription. We live in a town with significant topographic challenges, yet electrified micromobility is rapidly addressing this challenge. Let's prepare for a green and prosperous future without requiring the financial burden of car ownership.

ECRA Walk & Roll has joined the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce to help promote better access to local businesses by foot and bike.

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IN THE NEWS

KneeDeep Times: “El Cerrito Bets on Car-free Living” by Juan Carlos

Hoodline: “El Cerrito driver hit with manslaughter rap in crosswalk death” (Feb. 5, 2026)

Livable El Cerrito: “A Safer San Pablo” (Dec. 22, 2025)

El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce: “ECRA Walk & Roll Champions Small Businesses and Community Health,” by Skye Christensen (Dec. 18, 2025)

Upcoming events

2026 GENERAL MEETINGS: El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll meets every other second Wednesday, now on Google Meet. Future general meetings on our 2026 schedule are June 10, August 12, and October 14. (In December, we PARTY!) Click on this Google Calendar link to add all of our 2026 meetings to your calendar, with the meeting links!

2026 FAMILY-FRIENDLY HAPPY HOURS: Join us to hang out, eat, have a beer, and talk multimobility and safer streets with like-minded neighbors! Bring the kids/family/friends/partners! Our happy hours are every other second Wednesday 5–7 p.m. at family-friendly Fatapples, 7525 Fairmont Ave. Look for us at the picnic tables or indoors, depending on the weather. Mark your calendar for our remaining 2026 happy hour dates: July 8, September 9, and November 11.

Left to right, Carrie and Owen Schulman and Stuart and Gaia Sonatina accept ECRA Walk & Roll’s Best Community Advocacy Award at Bike East Bay’s Biketopia event. Photos by Olivia Smartt

ECRA awarded Bike East Bay’s Best Community Advocacy Award for 2025!

On September 17, 2025, El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll was honored to receive Bike East Bay’s Best Community Advocacy Award at its annual Biketopia fundraiser.

“El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll is a small team of volunteer advocates making a big impact,” Bike East Bay wrote in its award announcement. “They’ve worked within their cities to improve projects underway and advocate for undertaking new projects.”

ECRA Walk & Roll coordinating committee members Carrie Schulman, Gaia Sonatina, and Stuart Sonatina accepted the award at Preservation Park in Oakland.

“Every year I see more and more people riding their bikes. This is such an exciting movement to be a part of,” Schulman told 300 attendees of Biketopia. “On behalf of our whole group, thank you to Bike East Bay for providing your support and expertise and thank you for honoring us with this award.”

El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll was Co–Runner Up (with the Practice Space) in the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Best of El Cerrito Awards, in the Best Non-Profit Groups (Wide Reaching) category. Thanks to all who cast a vote for us! See all the winners here.

BART Director Barnali Ghosh to speak at joint ECRA Walk & Roll and Albany Strollers & Rollers meeting June 10

Join El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll and Albany Strollers & Rollers for a joint meeting on June 10, 7-8:30 pm, with BART Director Barnali Ghosh, who will give a presentation, “2026: A Defining Year for BART,” followed by Q&A.

Ghosh was elected to the BART Board of Directors in November 2024, representing District 3, which includes Richmond, El Cerrito Del Norte, El Cerrito Plaza, North Berkeley, Downtown Berkeley, and Ashby stations.

As an immigrant who lived without a driver’s license for her first 15 years in the United States, public transit has been essential to Ghosh. She took BART to her first job and even to her wedding, and she remains a regular transit rider today.

A licensed landscape architect and project manager, Ghosh served as chair of Berkeley’s Transportation Commission and vice-chair of its Planning Commission, where she worked to connect housing, equity, climate goals, and pedestrian/bike safety to city transportation policies.

The meeting is at Hana Gardens Community Room, 10870 San Pablo Ave. (just south of City Hall at Manila Ave), 7-8:30 p.m. Bike on Ohlone Greenway or take AC Transit #72. Arrive 6:30-7 p.m. to enjoy pizza, beverages, and cookies. We look forward to seeing you there!