Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Santa Clara County

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 […]

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SamTrans Poll Shows Strong Support for Tax Measures to Support Caltrain

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 12, 2012 | 8 Comments

The Green Caltrain blog has some promising news today for moving Caltrain toward a stable funding solution. Adina Levin from Friends of Caltrain reports: At its board meeting on Thursday, SamTrans announced the results of polling that it conducted in June. According to the poll, a ballot measure to support Caltrain and SamTrans would pass, barely, at the […]

San Jose Sets Out to Build the Bay Area’s Most Bike-Friendly Downtown

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 21, 2012 | 16 Comments

San Jose — which wants its central district to become the urban center of Silicon Valley — hopes to build the Bay Area’s most bike-friendly downtown, where pedaling to work, school or the farmers market is “safe, convenient and commonplace” for people of all ages. The vision includes Long Beach-inspired bicycle-friendly business districts, where merchants would […]

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For the first time in 15 years, Palo Alto’s outdated parking policies are being reviewed, and planners will consider recommending sustainable parking principles in the downtown core to better manage the supply.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 […]

Sunnyvale Latest City to Consider Anti-Harassment Law for Bike Riders

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 9, 2012 | 11 Comments

A groundbreaking law adopted in Los Angeles almost one year ago that allows bicycle riders to take civil action against drivers who harass them continues to generate local and national interest, with Sunnyvale becoming the latest city to consider enacting protections. “So many (drivers) seem to think it’s like basketball rules: no hit, no foul. […]