Latham/Church Bike Boulevard Feasibility
Last night, the City of Mountain View hosted a public meeting to review the results of the Latham Ave / Church Street Bicycle Boulevard Feasibility Study. After many years of discussion by city council, city staff, BPAC (Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee) and local bicycling advocates it’s very exciting to see some positive momentum in the creation of the bike boulevard. At the meeting, the city’s consultants from Nelson-Nygaard presented the results of the study and the initial plans to…
Making Escuela Avenue a Great Street
Great Streets Mountain View has long held a vision of Escuela Avenue as a complete street which welcomes pedestrians and bicyclists and an important part of a broader bicyclist-friendly network of streets spanning our city. Escuela Avenue is home to two schools (Castro Elementary and Mistral Dual Immersion) and many families find getting to school along Escuela, with its crowded streetscape and lack of sightlines, a stressful and treacherous experience. Many have expressed that they would bike…
Lane Reduction Projects in our Neighboring Cities
For many years, cities in the United States designed urban streets mainly for moving cars. But recently, the complete streets movement that aims to make streets safer for all modes of transportation has spread out nationwide. In the Bay Area, from Palo Alto to Morgan Hill, from Redwood City to San Jose, a number of cities have been rethinking street design by shifting the priority to pedestrians and cyclists. Below we highlight the lane reduction projects in some our neighboring cities….
Meeting with MVPD
Great Streets Mountain View and Safe Mountain View met with Sgt. Saul Jaeger (@SgtJaeger) and Ofc. Chris Goff of the Mountain View Police Department today to learn more about traffic enforcement in Mountain View. We learned that Mountain View has 5 officers in the Traffic unit (out of about 95 total sworn-in officers) and they are recognizable about town because they are riding motorcycles. Also, we learned that all serious injury accidents (when someone goes to the hospital) are…
Our Vision for California Street and Shoreline Boulevard
To help others visualize how California Street and Shoreline Boulevard can be transformed into Great Streets, we have created two bird’s-eye view diagrams for California Street and Shoreline Boulevard which illustrate our street design vision. Thanks very much to GSMV Board Member Jarrett Mullin for creating these designs. Please reach out to us if you have questions or suggestions by emailing us at contactus@greatstreetsmv.org. A Complete Streets Study, sponsored by the City of Mountain…
Housing & Transportation City Council Candidates Forum
Mountain View will select three new City Councilmembers this November to join the four existing Councilmembers. This new City Council will define the character of Mountain View for years to come. During their term, they will decide the intensity and type of development in the San Antonio, North Bayshore, El Camino Real Corridor, and East Whisman areas. They will decide how we will allocate space to motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders throughout the city including California…
How can we make Mountain View a better place for walking and biking?
At the our Thursday Night Live booth last week, we invited you to answer the question “How can we make Mountain View a better place for walking and biking?” We were amazed by your passionate and detailed descriptions of the street segments, crossings, and corners that need safety improvements. We’ve summarized your feedback below and will be making the results available to Mountain View’s Bicycle Pedestrian Committee, the Department of Public Works, and City Council….
Cycletopia!
Thanks to everyone who came to our Thursday Night Live booth to experience the demonstration separated bikeway and for providing your thoughts on how to make Mountain View a better place for bicycling. We had a great time! We hope you did too! Thanks to Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and Safe Moves for your generous support and to the City of Mountain View Recreation Department for letting us take over a block of California Street. And a big kudos to the Safe Mountain View team who were…
Envisioning Protected Bike Lanes in Mountain View
Last weekend, at our Bikefest booth, these young bikers learned about protected bike lanes, saw pictures of inspiring bike lanes from around the world, and had a chance to build their own protected bikelane on our model street. And they also had a chance to ride through the cool demonstration protected bike lane that was hosted by Safe Mountain View: Missed the fun? Don’t worry, you will have another chance to ride the demonstration bike lane and build your own on our model…
Mountain View’s 2014-15 Bicyclist and Pedestrian Projects
Tonight, the Mountain View City Council adopted the FY2014-15 Budget and Capital Improvement Program. In addition to the projects underway, the budget includes several projects aimed at improving the bicycle and pedestrian experience. Great Streets Mountain View met with City staff and City Councilmembers and, spoke at City Council, Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Parks and Recreation Commission, and Environmental Planning Commission meetings to push for bike and pedestrian…