REPORT TO BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMISSION
SUBJECT
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Recommend to City Council the Removal of On-Street Parking on the East Side of Sunnyvale Avenue Between Maude Avenue and Arques Avenue and Both Sides of Sunnyvale Avenue Between Arques Avenue and Hendy Avenue to Install Buffered Bicycle Lanes on Both Sides of Sunnyvale Avenue Per the Active Transportation Plan
Report
BACKGROUND
Sunnyvale Avenue is a posted 25 miles per hour and 30 miles per hour north-south residential collector street between Maude Avenue and Evelyn Avenue; and a Class II arterial between Evelyn Avenue and El Camino Real, providing direct pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular access to Downtown Sunnyvale and the commercial area along El Camino Real. The segment of Sunnyvale Avenue between Olive Avenue and the Caltrain railroad track is located within the Downtown Specific Plan area, and Sunnyvale Avenue terminates at El Camino Real, which then transitions into Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road south of El Camino Real. The north end of Sunnyvale Avenue connects to Borregas Avenue, which provides access to Moffett Park as well as the Bay Trail via the pedestrian and bicycle overcrossings over US 101 and SR 237. Sunnyvale Avenue between Hendy Avenue and Maude Avenue has one travel lane in each direction and has time-limited (no parking between 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.) on-street parking on both sides of the street along the frontage of Villa Oaks Apartments and Spangler Mortuary between Hendy Avenue and California Avenue. There is also on-street parking along the west side of the street south of Central Expressway, and on both sides of the street between Arques Avenue and Maude Avenue; there is no on-street parking for the remainder of the street. There is currently no bicycle facility on Sunnyvale Avenue between Hendy Avenue and Maude Avenue; bicyclists and vehicular traffic must share the travel lane.
Along the west side of Sunnyvale Avenue between Hendy Avenue and Maude Aven...
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