Issues affecting the following Santa Clara County cities: Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale.
Inside the Santa Clara County Supervisors’ chambers where VTA Board Of Directors’ meetings are held.
It’s transit budget time again. Thursday’s Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Board Of Directors meeting will be where they vote to approve – or reject – their proposed budget for the 2020 and 2021 Fiscal Year (FY).
Details on what VTA proposes – and our own alternate to fund additional, much-needed bus increases in Santa Clara County – are below.
More service cuts to public transit may be coming to Silicon Valley. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) will discuss a proposal to further reduce bus and light rail service at its first Board Of Directors’ meeting of 2019 this Thursday at 5:30pm in San Jose.
WHEN: Thursday, January 10 at 5:30pm
WHERE: Auditorium at VTA Headquarters, 3331 N. First Street, San Jose
GETTING THERE: Take VTA Light Rail to the River Oaks station. VTA’s headquarters is on the west (airport) side of N. First Street, in the back of the Park and Ride lot.
Tips for how to be heard at any VTA Board meeting or workshop can be mastered here.
Our group has obtained details on what the VTA Board Of Directors will discuss at Thursday evening’s meeting. Details are below.
Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss. Photo courtesy of City Of Palo Alto.
Live in Palo Alto? Do shopping or other business in Palo Alto? Ride a bicycle in Palo Alto? Andrew Boone from East Palo Alto posted this message in a Facebook group. As a public service, I am forwarding this message here.
Do YOU want BIKE LANES on El Camino Real in Palo Alto?
Call Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss at 650-888-8671 and respectfully request that the “El Camino Real Complete Streets” project to re-envision the Royal Road between Stanford Avenue and Lambert Avenue to “create a safe and healthy place for pedestrians and bicyclists” be placed on an upcoming Palo Alto City Council agenda. The city won a grant in 2016 to re-design El Camino Real and has begun the public input process, but the project hasn’t ever been discussed by the City Council.
It’s important for the Palo Alto City Council to hear from the public and then discuss this project even if they are not making any decisions about it soon. We need City Council support to have any hope of achieving the project’s goals.
What do YOU think about Palo Alto creating a safe and accessible El Camino Real for people of all ages using all modes of transportation in accordance with state Complete Streets law? Do YOU think Palo Alto should follow state law, or continuing ignoring state law?
Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss
telephone 650-888-8671
email: liz.kniss@cityofpaloalto.org
City of Palo Alto project page has more information on the proposal.
Eugene Bradley
Founder, Silicon Valley Transit Users