If you live, work, or ride your bike in downtown San José, attend this neighborhood meeting to learn about a new streetscape project that will transform 3rd and 4th Streets and Almaden Boulevard into calmer, more bike-able thoroughfares. Class II bike routes (aka bike lanes) will run on all three streets, allowing easy bike access to downtown from north and south. In addition to a project summary, city staff will be on hand to answer your questions.
Agenda:
1. Sign In
2. Project Overview Review
3. Project Update and Schedule
4. Question and Answer Portion
5. Adjournment
Monday, February 27 - 6:30PM
Address:
City Hall Wing, Room W-119 & 120
200 East Santa Clara Street
San José, CA
United States
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Jason Lawrence
February 28, 2012 - 12:11pm
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Hello: How I can find out the
Hello: How I can find out the 3 & 4th street bike lane project overview and schedule. I bicycle commute daily on north 4th street and am wondering if any changes will occur in the Taylor/Hedding/880 area. I was unable to attend this meeting last night and am interested to know how things went.
mark_s
February 29, 2012 - 1:42pm
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I was at the meeting. The
I was at the meeting. The project is only concerning the area from reed st (near 280) up to Julian where 3rd and 4th are both one way. No anticipated changes to the Hedding/Taylor/880 area. I live in Japantown, and in my opinion, the biggest issue is with the lack of westbound routes from that area - Taylor across 87 and Caltrain is not fun, Hedding is marginally better, but the overpass for the caltrain tracks is not the most bike friendly infrastructure...
I wish the city would post the draft plans that they shared at the meeting, also, when they presented the plans, there were no scales, so we have no idea of the lane widths that they are contemplating. Basic idea is bike lanes on both sides of the street (going with flow of traffic, no contra-flow lanes), in some cases the lanes are buffered, but from the drawings, it looked like for the most part, the bike lanes were in the door zones for the on-street car parking. Availability of on-street, cheap parking seems to trump safety.
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