Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Palo Alto

On the Peninsula, Demand Could Overwhelm Limited Bike-Share Launch

By Andrew Boone | Jul 18, 2013 | 17 Comments

All the way down the Peninsula, excitement around the pilot launch of Bay Area Bike Share comes tempered with a dose of concern about the small number of bikes that will be clustered around Caltrain stations in five cities. Bay Area Bike Share’s meager scale at the time it launches is sure to limit its usefulness. […]

Remembering Ellen Fletcher, Palo Alto’s Pioneer Bicycle Advocate

By Richard Masoner | Nov 8, 2012 | 6 Comments

Cross-posted from Cyclelicious. Holocaust survivor, PTA mom, city council member, and bike advocate Ellen Fletcher succumbed yesterday at age 83 to lung cancer at her Palo Alto home. Ellen escaped Berlin as a Jewish child on the Kindertransport trains and spent her teen years as a refugee in World War II London, where she biked to her […]

Palo Alto, Choked By Famously Free Parking, May Consider Pricing the Curb

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 30, 2012 | 25 Comments

For the first time in 15 years, Palo Alto’s outdated parking policies are being reviewed, and planners will consider recommending sustainable parking principles in the downtown core to better manage the supply. The affluent Silicon Valley city has not had a comprehensive examination of its parking strategies since 1997, when it installed four color-coded parking […]

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 […]

Proposal to Limit Vehicles on University Ave in Palo Alto Gains Support

By Matthew Roth | May 28, 2009 | 15 Comments

University Avenue in Palo Alto. Flickr photo: richardmasoner In the past few weeks, Stanford University students have built support for a proposal to reduce parking, widen sidewalks, and eventually close eight blocks of University Avenue in Palo Alto to motor vehicles. The Palo Alto Pedestrian Mall (PAPM) started out as an assignment in a "Creating […]