Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

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 […]

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 […]

San Mateo’s Hillsdale Ped/Bike Bridge Moves Onto Final Regulatory Hurdle

By Andrew Boone | Aug 28, 2014 | 1 Comment

Last Monday, San Mateo’s City Council reviewed a draft report ahead of the last step in the permitting process for the city’s ambitious Hillsdale Pedestrian/Bicyclist Bridge over Highway 101. The bridge has been needed ever since the interchange was rebuilt and expanded in 2002, which made crossing the highway more hazardous for people walking and […]

San Jose Merchants Object to Parking Removal for Bike Lanes on Park Ave

By Andrew Boone | Aug 19, 2014 | 14 Comments

About 150 residents attended a community meeting last Wednesday hosted by the San Jose Department of Transportation in the Willow Glen neighborhood to introduce plans for new bike lanes and sharrows on six streets west of downtown. The projects would complement four less extensive bikeway projects on streets east of downtown which were presented on August 6. […]

East San Jose Bikeway Plan Scrutinized, Park Avenue Parking Debate Begins

By Andrew Boone | Aug 11, 2014 | 5 Comments

About two dozen residents attended a San Jose Department of Transportation (SJDOT) community meeting last Wednesday, where staff gathered public input on four upcoming bike lane and sharrow projects planned for east San Jose streets. Five other projects, which will add bike lanes and sharrows to streets west of downtown — and, to the chagrin […]

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