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San Jose Candidates Campaign at Bike Party, Bike Life Festival

By Andrew Boone | Oct 1, 2014 | 3 Comments

Mayoral candidate Sam Liccardo and District 3 City Council candidates Don Gagliardi and Raul Peralez all sought to demonstrate their support for improving cycling conditions in the state’s third-largest city at both September’s San Jose Bike Party and the inaugural San Jose Bike Life Festival. Gagliardi and Liccardo both spoke briefly to the over 2,000 bicyclists […]

Alta’s Mia Birk Helps Mountain View Kick Off Its Latest Bike Plan

By Andrew Boone | Sep 25, 2014 | 2 Comments

How bikeable can Mountain View become? Last Monday, the city welcomed Alta Planning + Design President Mia Birk to help kick off an update to its 2008 Bicycle Transportation Plan. Birk had plenty to share about how Portland transformed itself into one of the best cities for biking in North America. Birk was hired as the city’s […]

#MinimumGrid: Toronto Advocates Move Politicians Beyond Bike Platitudes

By Michael Andersen | Sep 25, 2014 | No Comments

Bike advocates are putting these questions to Toronto mayoral candidates. Image: #MinimumGrid Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Almost all urban politicians will tell you they think bikes are great. But only some actually do anything to make […]

Sidewalk Cycling Ban Again Proposed for Downtown San Jose

By Andrew Boone | Sep 19, 2014 | 7 Comments

San Jose Department of Transportation (SJDOT) officials announced at a community meeting Wednesday evening that a downtown sidewalk cycling ban is again under consideration, explaining that the “Walk Your Bike” signs and banners installed in December 2013 had largely failed to convince bicyclists to ride in the streets rather than on sidewalks. Three members of […]

Oakland Unnecessarily Pits Safe Bicycling vs. Transit on Telegraph Avenue

By Melanie Curry | Sep 19, 2014 | 6 Comments

At two workshops last week in Oakland, attendees overwhelmingly called for a bolder plan to make Telegraph Avenue safer and include protected bike lanes. Oakland planners ditched their original proposals for parking-protected bike lanes, instead proposing buffered, unprotected bike lanes on most of the street. In Temescal, the street’s most dangerous and motor traffic-heavy section, planners insist […]

VTA: No, We Won’t Cut Train Service to Move More Cars at Levi’s Stadium

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 18, 2014 | 9 Comments

Santa Clara County’s Valley Transportation Authority says it does not plan to reduce light-rail service in order to move more cars at Levi’s Stadium during the post-game traffic crunch. “Transit is not the problem; transit is a solution,” the agency wrote in a blog post yesterday, countering a report from the San Jose Mercury News on Monday. […]

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