REPORT TO BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMISSION
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Recommend to City Council to Adopt the Active Transportation Plan
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
The City of Sunnyvale currently has three individual transportation plans (Bicycle, Pedestrian and Safe Routes to School) that were created at different times with singular purposes. In order to develop a cohesive plan that coordinates each element, staff applied for and was awarded a Sustainable Communities grant to update and unify the three plans into one Active Transportation Plan. The three different plan elements need to be periodically updated in order to be eligible for various Federal, State and Regional grants; consolidation under one plan will unify the update timelines. The Active Transportation Plan has been created through an extensive year plus effort of gathering input from the public, school districts, adjoining jurisdictions and other stakeholders via in person meetings, network audits with the public and online outreach.
The Active Transportation Plan emphasizes developing a safe, comfortable, connected and low stress network that accommodates all users as opposed to solely building a network. The Active Transportation Plan also proposes performance goals such as achieving League of American Bicyclist-Bicycle Friendly Communities Silver status by 2030, increasing the bicycle mode share from 1.5% to 5% by 2030 and reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 50% by 2029 in alignment with the previously adopted Vision Zero Plan. Within the Bike Plan portion this includes implementation of more Class I, IIIB and IV facilities and protected intersections, and in the Pedestrian and Safe Routes to School portions it includes reducing sidewalk gaps, enhancing comfort and safety via increased width and shade trees and intersection improvements.
The Active Transportation Plan identified improvements for each of the three plan elements and categorized them into three priority levels (high,...
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