City Council Candidates Respond to our Questionnaire
There are five candidates vying for three seats on the Mountain View City Council this November. Mountain View Streets for All was interested in hearing each candidate's ideas for how to improve street safety and encourage active transportation in our community as well as understand what kind of advocate they would be for these causes. We sent each candidate the following questions. We received...
Good Times at the MVSA Summer Mixer
Good times were had last Saturday at the first Mountain View Streets for All Summer Mixer! It was a lovely afternoon for snacks and lively conversation. The MVSA team really enjoyed reuniting with friends we haven't seen in person for a while and also meeting new friends who share the same vision for encouraging bicycling and walking in our community. Thanks to City Councilmembers Pat Showalter...
Bike Rodeo in Rengstorff Park
Bike to Wherever Days continue! Our wonderful Mountain View City staff hosted a Bike Rodeo in Rengstorff Park on Saturday. The participants who brought their bikes and helmets got riding safety tips from a licensed bicycling instructor, a helmet fitting, a bike safety check, and honed their biking skills on the rodeo course. What a great day! We at Mountain View Streets believe everyone,...
Bike to Wherever Day MV
I hope you checked out our downtown energizer station on Bike to Wherever Day! Even if you didn't manage to swipe the coffee cake and fruit, you can still Pledge To Ride to get a BTWD bag and win prizes!
Better Together!
We've finally went off and got hitched! After working together on so many projects, events, and causes over the years, Great Streets Mountain View (the blue group) and Safe Mountain View (the green group) have merged into a single new awesome group: Mountain View Streets for All. We will still be advocating for the same street and safety improvements, but we're working on combining...
Teenage Tragedy on El Camino
Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the 13-year who was tragically struck while riding his bike to Graham Middle School on Thursday morning. Mayor Ramirez shared this in his weekly message to the community: Dear Friends, As you have likely heard, our community has suffered a tragic and horrific loss. On March 17, a 13-year-old student at Graham Middle School was killed in a fatal...
3rd Annual Mountain View Family Bike Ride Recap
It was great to see so many families join us for the 3rd Annual Mountain View Family Bike Ride on Saturday! 149 riders joined us, our biggest Family Bike Ride crowd yet. We gathered in Eagle Park at 10am under a beautiful blue sky. After signing-in, riders socialized, chatted with Nate Baird our Mountain View Bike Coordinator, and explored the family activities including bike decorating, face...
Latham/Church Bike Boulevard Feasibility
Last night, the City of Mountain View hosted a public meeting to review the results of the Latham Ave / Church Street Bicycle Boulevard Feasibility Study. After many years of discussion by city council, city staff, BPAC (Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee) and local bicycling advocates it's very exciting to see some positive momentum in the creation of...
Making Escuela Avenue a Great Street
Great Streets Mountain View has long held a vision of Escuela Avenue as a complete street which welcomes pedestrians and bicyclists and an important part of a broader bicyclist-friendly network of streets spanning our city. Escuela Avenue is home to two schools (Castro Elementary and Mistral Dual Immersion) and many families find getting to school along Escuela, with its crowded streetscape and...
Lane Reduction Projects in our Neighboring Cities
For many years, cities in the United States designed urban streets mainly for moving cars. But recently, the complete streets movement that aims to make streets safer for all modes of transportation has spread out nationwide. In the Bay Area, from Palo Alto to Morgan Hill, from Redwood City to San Jose, a number of cities have been rethinking street design by shifting the priority to pedestrians...