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SVBC brings SMC leaders to learn by bike from SMART rail-with-trail
On July 12, SVBC brought a contingent of San Mateo County stakeholders for a bike ride fieldtrip to the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit train and parallel multiuse trail to learn from the experts on how...
View ArticleRepresent SVBC and people biking on the Caltrain BAC, Caltrans District 4...
There are vacancies on the bicycle advisory committees for Caltrain, BART, and Caltrans District 4. Several of these seats are allocated to representatives of the local bicycle coalition, which is us!...
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San Mateo County’s Measure W/A Strategic Plan Update
Written by Sandhya Laddha, San Mateo County Advocate We are about to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of Measure W. Over this year, SVBC has been working with San Mateo County...
View ArticleSVBC joins 31 groups on $16B Regional Strategy for Biking and Walking
On Wednesday, October 23, SVBC joined 31 other organizations in sending a letter outlining a transformational regional strategy for active transportation and micromobility to decision makers throughout...
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Lyft Responds to Feedback on Bay Wheels Membership and Pricing Changes
This has been a week of ups and downs regarding bike share as Bay Wheels, owned by Lyft, has announced changes to its programs that will impact community members, especially low income members. When...
View ArticleSVBC Supports Affordable Housing
As we continue working toward a community that encourages and supports more biking, SVBC recognizes that housing is critical. As housing costs continue to rise, people move farther and farther away to...
View ArticleSVBC Presents Vision Zero to SMC Council of Cities
Image (from left to right): Kevin Fehr, Daly City; Hans Larsen, Fremont; Emma Shlaes, SVBC; Mayor Emily Beach of Burlingame At the end of January, SVBC was honored to present at the San Mateo County...
View ArticleMake Santa Cruz and the Alameda de Las Pulgas safer for bicycling
This blog and alert was written by SVBC member, John Langbein, who also chairs the SVBC Peninsula Committee and sits on the Atherton BPAC as well as the Task Force for this corridor. Additional editing...
View ArticleSan José City Council Approves $6.8M Vision Zero Plan
Caption: San José’s 56 miles of Priority Safety Corridors On Feb. 18, the San José City Council unanimously approved the Transportation Safety Vision Zero Action Plan including $6.8M funding for the...
View ArticleStudent Biking Killed on El Camino Real
We are saddened to share news of the death of a young man while bicycling on Friday evening in Palo Alto. A Greene Middle School student on a bicycle died Friday night, March 6, when he was struck by a...
View ArticleSupport Emergency Funding for Public Transit
SVBC supports public transit as a crucial way to get around and to extend trips for people biking. Right now, due to coronavirus, public transit ridership has declined up to 90% and fare revenue and...
View ArticleThree Recommendations for Safer Streets
It’s been one month since shelter in place started in the Bay Area. Like you, SVBC has been trying to figure out what it all means, how long it will last, and what are the short- and long-term...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Been Up To
Image: Some of SVBC’s staff at 2019’s Silicon Valley Bike Summit It’s been a whirlwind few weeks. In the first week, we at SVBC felt like we were riding into a nasty headwind, trying to figure out what...
View ArticleNeed a bike/Get a bike: BikeMatchSV
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition has teamed up with the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange (SVBE) to offer essential bikes to essential workers in need of transportation during shelter in place. This...
View ArticleThe streets they are-a-changin’
Image: Redwood City slow streets pilot Image credit: Isabella Chu Since SVBC sent a letter to every city in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties three weeks ago, there’s been a lot of changes to our...
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Street Survey Results: Support for Slow Streets
Image: Burlingame’s Carolan Avenue This blog post was written by SVBC intern, Emily Olson, a high school student in Menlo Park. This March, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed us into uncertain and...
View ArticleHow to create a more sustainable transportation future – SVBC’s ask to cities
SVBC recently followed up on the letter that we sent in April by sending a second letter to every city in our two counties with new recommendations as the area emerges from shelter in place. While the...
View ArticleVote for transportation and trail access in November
This blog post was written by SVBC’s high school intern, Emily Olson The November election is coming up fast! Your November 3rd ballot will include three key measures: Measure RR, Measure T, and...
View ArticleVolunteer to Support Caltrain Measure RR
Image: Inside the Caltrain (detail), Charles Woodruff Coates, digital drawing, ©2019 See more: https://Blockpaperprint.com Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition supports Measure RR on the November ballot:...
View ArticleHow are you getting around?
Happy November! It’s hard to believe that it has been over seven months since the COVID-19 pandemic began. You may remember that SVBC released a survey in late April seeking your input on the...
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