Recent Streetsblog SF posts about San Jose

Endorsement: San Jose’s Measure E Will Help Housing and Homeless Crises

By Damien Newton | Feb 20, 2020 | No Comments

Vote Yes

Downtown San Jose. You are unlikely to die if you're in one of these buildings during a big earthquake. But will the buildings have to be torn down? Photo: Wikimedia Commons

This post is supported by GJEL Accident Attorneys

SPUR Talk: Building Resilient Cities

By Roger Rudick | Sep 25, 2019 | No Comments

Building a rating system for buildings so buyers know it will be usable after a big earthquake

Preview: Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition to Hold Bike Summit August 8

By Melanie Curry | Jul 27, 2017 | No Comments

The SVBC Summit agenda includes a talk by Tamika Butler, former head of the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition.

Silicon Valley Bike Vision Plan Is a Great Tool for Advocates Everywhere

By Melanie Curry | Mar 24, 2017 | 5 Comments

The Silicon Valley Bike Vision report shows what peninsula cities are doing right, as well as what they could do better to improve conditions for bicyclists and encourage more people to ride. It serves as a vision of what bicycling could be like, and provides a general roadmap on how to get there.

San Jose has designed larger curb radii into the newly widened Saint James Street, creating a new hazard for pedestrians. No crosswalk is included on the north side of the Saint James & Market street intersection. Image: City of San Jose

San Jose Makes Saint James Street More Dangerous

By Andrew Boone | Dec 20, 2016 | 6 Comments

Construction on San Jose’s huge North San Pedro plan is well underway. It removes a one-way, four-lane S-curve segment of Julian Street just east of Highway 87 and restores several blocks of the city’s original street grid. Removing that nasty S-curve and replacing it with a grid is good, but much of the North San Pedro plan still screams “car […]

South Bay Cities Still Have the Asphalt Bug

By Andrew Boone | Feb 25, 2016 | 24 Comments

“Induced demand” is the idea that building and widening roads doesn’t make traffic better–it makes it worse. Late last year Caltrans finally acknowledged that, yeah, it’s probably true that all the work they’ve been doing for the past few decades has been for naught. Not everyone got the memo. The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)’s proposed […]

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