Walk-Bike News
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission Priorities for 2023
This coming year, due to staff shortages, there will not be any new city work items. The staff liaison, David Stillman, therefore asked the BPC at their November 2022 meeting about what their top priorities of the currently approved projects that they would like staff...
Pedestrian Scramble potential solution to congestion at Bubb and McClellan Intersection
The City of Cupertino is trying something new to address congestion at the Bubb and McClellan intersection in the mornings: a “pedestrian scramble”. This change will allow either all car traffic, or all pedestrian traffic, to cross during a light cycle phase instead...
Sunnyvale considers whether to make Homestead bike lanes full time
Homestead Road is a key east-west transportation corridor at the far northern edge of Cupertino, connecting Los Altos in the west to San Jose in the east. The road provides access to several large strip malls, apartment blocks, detached single family housing,...
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Using bike Turn Boxes
-This article and links are published by the City of Edmonton, Canada. It has relevant and specific advice for cyclists and motorists using separated bike lanes, bike boxes, and marked intersections. With the newly configured McClellan/Bubb and McClellan/Stelling...
The Best Electric Bikes for Every Kind of Ride
An electric motor lets you enjoy most of the benefits of biking, without all the sweat. To see full article @ https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-electric-bikes/ Riding an electric bike is a philosophical adjustment. The first time you glide past a long-time bike...
Traffic fatalities are down in the U.S….
But more pedestrians and bicyclists are being killed, officials say.... Nearly 36,600 people died on U.S. roadways last year, a decrease of 2.4 percent from 2017 A city employee helps pedestrians cross a street in Washington. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post)...