Sunnyvale Urban Outing
From Greenbelt Alliance:
A bus tour of Sunnyvale and surrounding cities to show the various ways cities have built walkable communities near transit, and how they have incorporated affordable housing into these communities.
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Sunnyvale Cool Forum: Rethinking Parking
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From Sunnyvale Cool: How have parking practices shaped our cities and transportation choices? How much does parking really cost? What are the trade-offs in providing too much or too little parking? How can parking requirements be set based on empirical data? What are other cities doing to update parking practices and what are the results? What […]
TransForm: The Future of El Camino Real Lies in Your Hands
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From TransForm: Increasing traffic congestion and slow transit. Unsafe and uninviting conditions for walking and bicycling. Rapidly escalating housing costs. These are some of the challenges facing El Camino Real today, but land use and transportation plans are under way in cities such as Sunnyvale that will affect traffic and transportation, community health and quality […]
New Bike Lanes in Sunnyvale Could Be Just the Beginning for El Camino Real
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To build a bike network, you’ve gotta start somewhere, and on El Camino Real, it started in Sunnyvale last month. The first bike lanes on El Camino Real are six feet wide, striped along the curb with no protection from traffic, running half a mile from Sunnyvale Avenue to Fair Oaks Avenue/Remington Drive, near the city’s […]
How Will Millennials Transform Silicon Valley Transportation and Cities?
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From TransForm: Just how different are Millennials from the Baby Boom generation? Come learn about the transportation and community preferences of Millennials and envision how the world will look as they begin joining the decision making process. So-called Millennials, younger adults between the ages of 18 and 30, are driving less, and many are choosing […]
Rethinking Cities Film and Discussion Series
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From SVBC: Part IV – Developing Sustainable Transportation: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Bicycle Infrastructure Watch a series of short films focused on transit and bikes: Curitiba’s BRT Inspired BRT Around the World. (Street Film) (8:03) 2009 Guangzhou, China’s Winning the Future with BRT. (Street Film) (5:18) 2011 BRT: LA’s Orange Line: Bus Rapid Transit […]