Recent Streetsblog SF posts about San Jose

Silicon Valley Prepares for San Jose Cycling Classic and First Ciclovia

By Matthew Roth | May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

SVBC E.D. Corinne Winter, Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino, and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed at the San Jose City Hall Rotunda. Carl Guardino’s bike is in front of the podium. Photo: Matthew Roth. Most cities in the Bay Area are gearing up for Bike to Work Day this Thursday, with numerous activities […]

A Rose By Another Name: San Jose’s Bike Party

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 19, 2010 | 35 Comments

A crowd assembles at the beginning of San Jose Bike Party, April 16, 2010. Let’s just say right away that Critical Mass is a bike party, and the San Jose Bike Party has a lot more similarities to Critical Mass than differences. A half-dozen San Francisco and Berkeley Critical Mass veterans took a field trip […]

Bay Area Advocates Unveil New VMT Reduction Incentive for Developers

By Matthew Roth | Dec 22, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Michael Patrick Among the many strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and attendant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private vehicles, Bay Area smart growth advocate TransForm has developed a new certification called GreenTRIP to encourage architects, developers, and municipal officials to build transit-oriented development and implement transportation demand management (TDM) solutions for future […]

Santa Clara VTA Proceeds with Bay Area’s First Bike Share Pilot Program

By Matthew Roth | Nov 10, 2009 | 7 Comments

Despite the much ballyhooed talk by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom that his city will implement a public bike share pilot (two years of talk that has garnered numerous press hits), the first bike share program in the Bay Area will likely be implemented by the middle of 2010 in Santa Clara County by the […]

Will San Jose’s New Bicycle Plan Mark Shift From Years of Car Privilege?

By Matthew Roth | Nov 9, 2009 | 15 Comments

Photo: richardmasoner San Jose is on the verge of adopting its new bicycle plan at the next City Council meeting on November 17th, which, as anyone who has cycled in San Jose knows, would be a welcome change from decades of traffic engineering focused almost solely on automobility. "What I’m hoping we’re seeing here is […]

San Jose Provides Model for Bay Area Growth and Transportation Needs

By Matthew Roth | Oct 30, 2009 | 12 Comments

Photo: pbo31 In our ongoing coverage of the adverse affects of traffic engineers’ over-reliance on automobile level of service (LOS) measurements, we’ve examined how new amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) would allow local jurisdictions greater freedom in choosing whether they want to develop their cities for cars or for transit, cycling, and […]

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