Category: advocacy

Santa Clara Tasman Drive road diet threatened

Tuesday night, the city of Santa Clara city council will consider a proposed lane reduction / road diet project for Tasman Drive between Lick Mill Boulevard and Old Ironsides Drive. The proposed project will reduce Tasman from the current six lanes down to four general purpose lanes, replacing the outside lanes with buffered bike lanes.

The photo below shows the typical heavy traffic on Tasman at Lick Mill. Due to heavy complaints from the public after the Pruneridge road diet, some council members have expressed reluctance about approving a similar project for Tasman.


Patriotic Tandem

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Parking database challenges residential parking requirements

Happy Monday, and I hope you enjoyed your lost hour of sleep.

Last weekend, I attended a presentation by GreenTRIP Policy Analyst Jennifer West at the TransForm California’s wonky Silicon Valley Transportation Choices and Healthy Communities Summit. West described how the GreenTRIP Parking Database challenges assumptions about parking requirements for residential developments in the San Francisco Bay Area.


GreenTRIPS parking database screenshot

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Santa Clara Expressway meeting tonight

Santa Clara County Roads wants to expand lanes for more traffic, more pollution, more emissions, more noise, and more danger for county residents.

Expressway meeting poster

The county plans in particular to give Lawrence Expressway more interstate highway style features, with grade separation, high speed entry and exit ramps, and higher speed limits.

Plans for San Tomas Expressway and Lawrence Expressway will be presented to the public at tonight’s meeting beginning at 6:30 PM at the West Valley Branch Library, on San Tomas Aquino Road at Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, CA.