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Cupertino CA: Stevens Creek extension proposal needs your help

The city of Cupertino, CA will decide at their city council meeting on June 21, 2016 the fate of a proposed extension of the Stevens Creek Trail between Homestead and Stevens Creek Boulevard. City council has heard vocal and well-organized NIMBY opposition for this proposed bike route.

H/T to Martin Delson, a member of Friends of the Stevens Creek Trail which drafted the action alert and letter below:

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Re-thinking the commute for bike promotion

Happy World Bike Day, USA Bike Month, and (for much of Northern California) Bike Week. Bike to Work Day in the Bay Area and the Monterey Bay region takes place this Thursday.

I love the bike celebrations associated with these events designed to encourage the bike-to-work trip, but is it possible that we focus too much on the work trip to the exclusion of other trips that can be done by bike?

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