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Yes. Always faster. It does seem that the city is going too slowly.Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 16, 2022, at 11:59, Erik Lindskog <erikli...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Most of the channels and suchlike are not under ownership of the city, or even the county in some instances, are under the ownership of the water district or PG&E for the right of way. Technically, these are easement agreements, and so there are legal issues with respect to repurposing them for bicycle and pedestrian pathways. Not to mention the impediments that Kevin cited. There is infrastructure which must be kept secure.Also, as these are environmentally sensitive riparian areas, for the most part, there is a lot of environmental review as well.Santa Clara made concessions to close part of the San Thomas Aquino Creek Trail section next to Levi stadium on game days or during events, so even if it's a public right of way, it's not available to use for the entire time.And yes, the neighbors who back on to such open spaces are reluctant to change over perceived increases in crime (likely because they see unhoused encampments along the other trails) and don't want to have changes for what they view as 'their' space. (Much like streets directly in front of their houses).The wheels grind slowly in Sunnyvale for change, and every request has pretty much an automatic two-year delay due to the requirement for a study issue. We do have changes for the East/West channels already in motion, but I'm not sure whether funding has been secured yet.It's too bad we don't have an old narrow-gauge railroad right-of-way we could easily convert, because it would be the right size, cross over or under streets and generally cost less to convert.Le sigh.Leia
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 13:39, Tim Claes<timcl...@hotmail.com> wrote:In Flanders access roads next to water (canals, rivers,...), train tracks, HV lines,... have been systematically converted to bicycle expressway network
In San Jose a lot of waterways have been converted but some are not or are missing links. Such as Ross Creek, PG&E easement by Doerr park, or the extension of Joe's trail in Saratoga,...
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Subject: Re: [SAN JOSE] Re: [SVBC Mountain View] Re: [Bike Sunnyvale] Why have not more creek/channel service roads been converted to bike/ped paths?
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Sounds like they have the right idea in Belgium....we need a network
of car-separated, smooth-flowing bicycle paths.
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"Cars Go Around"
reminds me of this life-sized city video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAEYUQAe9Gc
talks about this at the 10-minute mark
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I think Mountain View did a good job in the El Camino Precise Plan to require easements for passages from El Camino Real to Latham or other parallel streets (there are a couple of them available already); hopefully similar requirements were put in place in other Precise Plans.But as you point out it's contingent on redevelopment. Without redevelopment, getting these easements on private parcels would most likely require eminent domain (legally complex and onerous process).Outside of Precise Plans areas, there are also opportunities when a parcel redevelops. We managed to get cut-through path when the Water District built a flood basin at McKelvey (a path now connects Mountain View Avenue and Mramonte) but that required a lot of lobbying despite it being all public land.
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