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CC 05-21-2024 Late Written CommunicationsCC 05-21-2024 Item #7 FY 2024-25 projects proposed to receive funding from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account created by (SB) 1 Written Communications From:Helene Davis To:City Council Cc:City Clerk Subject:Class IV Bike Lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd. Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:54:03 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear City Council, I realize this is a late email but I am writing to encourage you to support the Class IV bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd. There are many cyclist such as myself who run errands, attend meetings, etc. in the community and who commute by bike. I'd like the council to look at the big picture and envision what kind of vibrant community we would like to see for our selves and for the next generation. Complete Streets, Vision Zero, active transportation, however you want to look at it, consideration of all modes of transport makes our community more welcoming to all who share our streets. Cupertino is also not in a bubble. The Class IV lanes would connect with Santa Clara and San Jose. These cities are also considering improving their section of the corridor. We don't want to be like Santa Clara County voting against BART way back in the 60's. Please consider the bigger picture. Regards, Helene Davis From:helen wiant To:City Council; Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk Subject:Keep funding for protected bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:12:56 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Mohan, Vice-Mayor Fruen and council members, Please keep funding for protected Class IV bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd in the list of projects to be funded by SB1 revenues. Protected bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd are key towards improving cycling safety in Cupertino - they have been a priority for cycling safety improvements for eight years and they need to be implemented. Stevens Creek Blvd is a High Injury Corridor and accounts for a significant percentage of severe injuries and fatal crashes over the last decade. The 2016 Bike Plan prioritized safety improvements for this High Injury Corridor and recommended protected bike lanes for its entire length to be completed in phases. It is a Tier 1 project in both the bike and pedestrian transportation plans. With approved new housing that will generate more traffic, we must find solutions to encourage residents to use alternate transportation, including bikes. It is imperative to make the community feel safer to use bikes for commuting to school and work. Stevens Creek Blvd is an important artery for commuting. Please continue to support and prioritize the funding for protected class IV bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd. Thank you, Helen Wiant 10354 Westacres Drive Cupertino CA From:Rattehalli Sudesh To:City Council Cc:Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk Subject:Stevens Creek Blvd Protected bike lane Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:00:25 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Respected Mayor Mohan, Vice-Mayor Fruen and council members, I am a 25 year resident of Cupertino, and have had a wonderful and rewarding career here, living and working at Kaiser Santa Clara medical center. I recently retired from my professional medical career as an Oculoplastic surgeon. I had the fortune to commute to work by bike for the last 10 years or so. I would have biked even more if it was not for the fact that our roads are not that safe. My children studied in local schools, and when in high school (Monta Vista), they were biked to school. That was a great bonus for us as parents, as both my wife and myself are surgeons, and it did give us some freedom from the hassle of driving them to school daily. It was of course at a great cost, as we were always worried about their safety on the roads. And, unfortunately, I was first hand to almost witness a fatality on Bubb road, it happened as I was stuck in my car on Bubb, ( I was at September and Bubb) commuting to work by car on that sad day. I myself have had a few close calls on my bike, a distracted young man reversed from his driveway on to Stelling, and knocked me down on to the street, I would have been run over, if there was any traffic at that time, my lucky stars, the roads were empty. Over the years, I have seen really good improvements for safe biking in our city. Kudos to the people working to getting it done.One of the best improvements was when McClellnan road got protected lanes, and soon after a segment of Stevens Creek Blvd got it too. You cannot describe the difference that makes to people on bikes. It is day and night. And, I am now patiently awaiting the next phase of this project, to get the rest of Stevens Creek blvd protected bike lanes. This will only get more people on bikes, less car trips, more kids on bikes to school, less traffic jams for school drop offs and pickups, less pollution, better health and the benefits are endless. What are we waiting for, let’s get this done- this is Vision Zero. Let’s not be blind to this fact. Rattehalli Sudesh, MD 7827 Creekline Drive Cupertino, CA 95014 From:Carols Gmail To:City Council Cc:City Clerk Subject:Approve using SB1 funds for Stevens Creek Boulevard Bike Lanes (item 7) Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 5:00:04 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Mohan, Vice Mayor Fruen and Councilmembers, Let’s continue our progress to make our streets safer for bicyclists. This is the right path forward. We need to look forward and plan for the future! Please approve the SB1 funds for Stevens Creek Blvd Bike lanes. Carol Stanek Speaking for myself From:Jian He To:City Council Cc:Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk Subject:Support Stevens Creek Boulevard protected bike lane project Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 4:56:52 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Good afternoon, city council members, This is Jian He, a Cupertino resident near Blackberry Farm and a board member for a local volunteer-based group Walk Bike Cupertino. I heard you will make a big decision for the Stevens Creek Boulevard protected bike lane project tonight. I am writing to support this important safety improvement. I bike from home to the Union Church of Cupertino regularly, and many times, speeding cars were passing by me on my bike. It feels very risky and scary. With protected bike lanes, more people would feel safe to bike on this major street to reach parks, stores and churches along the way. Thank you so much for your good world for our city! You are truly public servants who care about our community! -- Blessings, Jian "...all things work together for good..." --- Romans 8:28 From:louise saadati To:City Council Cc:Cupertino City Manager"s Office; City Clerk Subject:Keep funding to protect Class IV bike lanes on SCB Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 4:52:35 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Mohan, Vice-Mayor Fruen and council members, Please keep funding to protect our citizens who travel on Stevens Creek. It would appear to be callous and uncaring to ignore safety, injuries and deaths on Stevens Creek Blvd. Please vote to keep the funding. Please keep funding for protected Class IV bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd in the list of projects to be funded by SB1 revenues. This is one of the most dangerous streets for cyclists in the city and has been listed as a priority for cycling safety improvements by the city since 2016. Stevens Creek Blvd has been identified as a High Injury Corridor, accounting for a significant percentage of severe injuries and fatal crashes in the city. From 2012 to 2021, the corridor reported a total of 260 injury collisions, including 16 severe injuries. The majority of these occurred between Wolfe and I-85 in the Phase 2 stretch that is being recommended for SB1 funding. Unsafe speeding was a common factor leading to these severe injuries, followed by traffic signals and sign violations. Out of the 48 intersections in Cupertino where fatal or injury crashes occurred between 2012 and 2021, seven of them are on Stevens Creek Boulevard, making it one of the city streets with the highest number of dangerous intersections. The 2016 Bike Plan prioritized safety improvements to this High Injury Corridor and recommended protected bike lanes for the entire length of the corridor which are being completed in phases. It is a Tier 1 project in BOTH the Bike and Pedestrian Transportation Plans. The Cupertino Draft Vision Zero Plan ranks Stevens Creek Blvd as its number one recommended project. Our newly approved Housing Element will bring 4,588 new homes to our city. We know that our streets, including our main arterials, cannot handle a lot more traffic without ending up in gridlock. We must look forward to solutions to encourage residents to use alternate transportation, including bikes. This is one way to make these “attractive choices” per the just approved Mobility Element in our General Plan. Class IV bike lanes on Stevens Creek Blvd in the list of projects to be funded by SB1 revenues. This is one of the most dangerous streets for cyclists in the city and has been listed as a priority for cycling safety improvements by the city since 2016. Stevens Creek Blvd has been identified as a High Injury Corridor, accounting for a significant percentage of severe injuries and fatal crashes in the city. From 2012 to 2021, the corridor reported a total of 260 injury collisions, including 16 severe injuries. The majority of these occurred between Wolfe and I-85 in the Phase 2 stretch that is being recommended for SB1 funding. Unsafe speeding was a common factor leading to these severe injuries, followed by traffic signals and sign violations. Out of the 48 intersections in Cupertino where fatal or injury crashes occurred between 2012 and 2021, seven of them are on Stevens Creek Boulevard, making it one of the city streets with the highest number of dangerous intersections. The 2016 Bike Plan prioritized safety improvements to this High Injury Corridor and recommended protected bike lanes for the entire length of the corridor which are being completed in phases. It is a Tier 1 project in BOTH the Bike and Pedestrian Transportation Plans. The Cupertino Draft Vision Zero Plan ranks Stevens Creek Blvd as its number one recommended project. Our newly approved Housing Element will bring 4,588 new homes to our city. We must look forward to solutions to encourage residents to use alternate transportation, including bikes. This is one way to make these “attractive choices” per the just approved Mobility Element in our General Plan. Please keep funding to protect our citizens who travel on Stevens Creek. It would appear to be callous and uncaring to ignore safety, injuries and deaths on Stevens Creek Blvd. Please vote to keep the funding. Sincerely, Louise Saadati Sent from my iPhone From:Aaryan Doshi To:City Council; City Clerk Subject:Keep SB1 Funding for Bike Lanes on Stevens Creek Boulevard Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2024 4:40:46 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Dear Mayor Mohan, Vice-Mayor Fruen and Council Members, I hope you are doing well today. I am writing in the hopes that today you keep funding for protected bike lanes on Stevens Creek Boulevard. I urge you to keep this as a project to be funded by the SB1 grant for a multitude of reasons. Stevens Creek Boulevard has some of the most accidents in our neighborhood per year. I, myself, as a frequent cyclist feel almost bare riding along these roads. Keeping Stevens Creek safe has been a top priority for a very long time. Removing these bike lanes would do a disservice to the Cupertino community at large. Not only that, but many plans such as Vision Zero emphasize this as being a paramount priority --- with the hundreds of collisions in the last year, it is imperative that we take action and dedicate a portion of the SB1 funding to keeping bike lanes. With even more homes scheduled to be built in the coming months, traffic will only become worse. Navigating by bike on Stevens Creek will become both extremely difficult and dangerous! Thank you so much for taking my thoughts into consideration. It is people like you who help make Cupertino the amazing city that it is today! Thank you for doing all that you do in making our city safe for all. Sincerely, Aaryan Doshi (Monta Vista High School) From: To: Subject: Date: Get Outlook for iOS Debra Nascimento​​​​ Executive Assistant City Manager's Office DebraN@cupertino.gov (408)777-1302 From: Joel Wolf <JWolf@cupertino.gov> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 4:08:27 PM To: City Council <CityCouncil@cupertino.gov> Subject: Tonight's Agenda Item # 7 Dear Mayor Mohan, Vice-Mayor Fruen and Council Members, I am writing in regard to tonight’s Agenda Item #7, and more specifically the portion of the agenda item associated with the Stevens Creek Blvd protected bike lane Phases 2A and 2B. I strongly advocate that this project be included in the list of projects to be funded by SB1 revenues. This is an important part of the Cupertino bicycling infrastructure, making it safer to bicycle on this busy corridor. This project encourages cycling along this corridor, removing auto traffic, reducing traffic noise and reducing greenhouse gases. In addition, given the higher density housing that is planned along this corridor, it is particularly important that cycling over auto use be encouraged as a mode of transportation. Thank you for your consideration. Joel Wolf Vice-Chair Bike-Ped Commission Joel Wolf​​​​ Bicycle and Pedestrian Commissioner JWolf@cupertino.gov