AFTER NEARLY A DECADE of planning, Oakland’s new Doolittle Bay Trail is now open to the public, bridging a half-mile gap on the San Francisco Bay Trail and improving safety for trail users.

The Doolittle Bay Trail, located on the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, provides 2,300 feet of new paved trail for pedestrians and bicyclists. Before the project’s completion, visitors traveled on the shoulder of busy Doolittle Drive.

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Helena Getahun-Hawkins is an intern at Bay City News through Stanford’s Rebele Fellowship. She’s a rising junior at Stanford majoring in International Relations and minoring in Spanish. She writes for The Stanford Daily under the campus life desk and was most recently managing editor of the Daily’s podcast section. She enjoys covering stories that center around education policy, immigration policy, and identity. Outside of journalism she enjoys drawing, yoga, listening to music, and watching TV.