city of mountain view
SVBC Bicycle Exchange work day
Mar 28, 2012The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition helps needy families and individuals through our Bicycle Exchange, which repairs used bicycles and donates them to our partner community service organizations. Our warehouse and workshop is fully outfitted with storage, repair stands and tools for year-round operation. All we need is you!
The Bicycle Exchange meets on selected Saturdays throughout... read the whole note.
SVBC Bicycle Exchange work day
Mar 28, 2012The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition helps needy families and individuals through our Bicycle Exchange, which repairs used bicycles and donates them to our partner community service organizations. Our warehouse and workshop is fully outfitted with storage, repair stands and tools for year-round operation. All we need is you!
The Bicycle Exchange meets on selected Saturdays throughout... read the whole note.
Membership Advisory Committee meeting
Mar 08, 2012SVBC is looking for at-large members to join our Membership Advisory Committee (the "Membership Committee"). The Membership Committee is an advisory committee only, but its recommendations are heavily relied upon by the Board of Directors and the Executive Director to make decisions regarding their efforts to increase the number of members and members' level of engagement in SVBC's work. You... read the whole note.
Google and SVBC town hall meeting
Feb 23, 2012Google and SVBC will host a town hall meeting at the Mountain View Adobe Building on Wednesday, March 7. The topic of discussion will be Google's upcoming campus expansion and the Stevens Creek Crossings project. Even more exciting--they will also be gathering input on what types of infrastructure projects people would like to see funded in the area.
Refreshments will be served. Come... read the whole note.
Some companies make great neighbors
Feb 23, 2012Some companies are simply good neighbors. First our members worked extensively with Facebook to get some bike infrastructure funding flowing from them to Menlo Park and East Palo Alto. Now Google has jumped in with some ideas on how they can help out the community.
Google's developers for their campus expansion originally contacted me last fall to get our input on the Stevens Creek... read the whole note.
Trail expansions are coming to Mountain View
Jan 04, 2011Mountain View cyclists have some smooth new miles of trail in their future. Two new across-barrier connections (ABCs) are planned to traverse Highway 101 and Old Middlefield Way, with a third crossing over Highway 85 coming soon. From the Mountain View Voice:
Two major highways will no longer stand in the way of cyclists and pedestrians on two popular Mountain View trails once... read the whole note.