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 responses from Alison Hicks, Ellen Kamei, and Lucas Ramirez and have published their answers on our website. We hope that hearing about these topics in the candidates’ own words will help you make a more informed choice in November.
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 and Alison Hicks for mixing with us! It was great hearing your points of view and about your support for our mission. And thank you Jennifer for opening your home to us and hosting such a fun event. What a great way to re-engergize our new group.
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, particularly our youngest citizens, would benefit from this kind of hands on education to learn biking life skills. If you agree, join us to advocate for making biking education a mandatory part of our local school curriculum.
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 Ridetoget a BTWD bag and win prizes!
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 our websites, Facebook pages, and newsletters. We hope that this will head off any of the confusion that you’ve had about which of our groups is doing what!
