Grand Boulevard Initiative

07/24/2019

Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition's 9th Annual Bike Summit is on August 1st! It's the region’s largest gathering of active transportation leaders and organizers. Add your voice to the conversations around bike-friendly policies and practices, network, and have a good time! Register here:

9th Annual Silicon Valley Bike Summit the region’s largest gathering of active transportation leaders and organizers from government, the private sector, non-profits, and the general public. Exciting new activities this year: - Pop-up protected bike lane on California Street between Caltrain and t...

01/25/2019

The City of San Carlos is currently developing a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan! If you live or work in San Carlos you can share your thoughts on walking and bicycling here: https://sancarlos.altaplanning.cloud/ #/

10/15/2018

As part of the Bike & Ped Safety Improvement Study, the City of Redwood City will be hosting a pop-up protected bike lane on Saturday, October 20th from 10 am until 1 pm on El Camino Real between Cedar and Chestnut streets (in front of BevMo). This event will give the community an opportunity to see and test out what a protected bike lane might look and feel like. The event will also include informational booths and displays to allow people to provide input on the study and updated design concepts. For more information, go to www.redwoodcity.org/elcaminoplan

09/27/2018

Have you been encountering electric scooters around your city? Any thoughts?

Across the United States, electric scooters have been springing up overnight on city streets and sidewalks, leading to a combination of praise and condemnation from urban dwellers and local municipalities. Deployed by a growing array of companies, these e-scooters have been lauded by some as compact...

09/26/2018

In their new book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett use the example of the Netherlands to show how a cycling culture promotes community building and health..

09/20/2018

"The Sunnyvale institution that fronts El Camino Real and remains one of the last vestiges of the Valley of Hearts Delight couldn’t survive the competition from the nearby specialty markets."

Deborah Olson, who helped her grandmother run the original stand at the same location on El Camino Real since she was a child in the 1960s, said competition from nearby specialty markets and the in…

09/19/2018

“We just have a bunch of land sitting there not being used and it just strikes me that we need to do something.”

Burlingame hotels need less parking than ever before, and city officials are OK with that.

09/18/2018

The causes of the Bay Area's housing shortage are a contentious issue. Less frequently discussed is where the responsibility to change it lies. What do you think?

The Bay Area housing shortage has pinched the region’s biggest institutions, including Stanford University. The world-renown university is adding more housing — but faces increased scru…

09/17/2018

Does this change the way you look at El Camino Real?

When traffic-clogged highways are expanded, new drivers quickly materialize to fill them. Here’s how “induced demand” works.

09/14/2018

"The council moved to approve an "emergency law" that requires landlords to provide relocation assistance based on the size of the unit."

Responding to pleas for help from dozens of tenants facing eviction, the Palo Alto City Council passed an emergency law Monday night that could help some of them relocate to new homes.

09/13/2018

A development proposal offering 62 new housing units near the San Bruno Caltrain station took a step closer to final approval under a recent vote by the Planning Commission.