July 17, 20152 Comments on Gadgets at the Bike Summit
July 10, 20151 Comment on Paths For Bicycles: Why San Jose Wheelmen Oppose Them
June 23, 2015Leave a Comment
The runoff for San Jose District 4 City Council takes place today until 8 PM. From an active transportation perspective, you have a choice between two decent candidates in this runoff between Manh Nguyen and Tim Orozco. In fact, I Walk I Bike I Vote took the unusual step of endorsing both candidates, so you can choose your candidate around other issues you might support.
June 22, 201521 Comments on What do we call this? Courtesy wave? Suicide wave?
Here’s the set up: I want a cheap katsudon rice bowl for dinner so I steer myself to Mitsuwa Market on Saratoga Avenue at Moorpark. I stopped in the left of two lanes on Moorpark waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so I can make a left turn. My path is the blue line, I stop at the red horizontal line and my intended route is the red arrow.
June 17, 20155 Comments on More bikes and pedestrians with Lincoln Avenue road diet
San Jose Department of Transportation counts 24% more bikes on Lincoln Avenue during road diet trial project.
I’m reading the San Jose DOT data collection report [PDF] for the Lincoln Avenue Road Diet Trial prior to tomorrow night’s public meeting regarding this project in Willow Glen.
June 16, 20151 Comment on Just two days a month?
San Jose Merc News transportation journalist Gary Richards wrote of the recently released VTA report showing Highway 87 has the worst traffic for Silicon Valley highways.
The 9-mile route from the Almaden Valley to the northern part of San Jose has the most stop-and-go traffic in Santa Clara County during commute hours, according to the Valley Transportation Authority. Traffic on about 78 percent of the six-lane freeway creeps along below 35 mph during morning and afternoon rush-hour periods,
It’s a good thing Bay Area commuters have options!
