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. Transportation Equity requires you to turn one of those 4 car lanes into 2 bike lanes. Make a choice, that is the job. RWC Moves is full of bike lane and they are easy to achieve. Every time a road gets re - paved, it also gets re -stripped with 5 foot bike lanes. . This costs $10,000 per mile and doesn't even require a study or consultants. It's cheap, it's most efficient, it's more equitable, it's safer. • Vision Zero, Climate Change adaptation, Transportation Equity, Safe -Routes -To -School, Transport Oriented Developments, Safe -Routes -To -Transit, Complete Streets, Air Pollution, . ... all these policies require bicycle lanes, yet currently the city has no active bicycle projects in the works. WARNING: staff wants to sell class 3 bike routes as 'Safe Bicycle Facilities'. Safe bicycle facilities require separation of cars (>30mph) and bicycles (<15mph). That can only be done with real bicycles lanes (class 2 or class 4). o for example staff tries to sell Alameda De Las Pulgas, Jefferson Ave or Whipple Avenue as Class 3 Bicycle Facility. Anybody on the city council willing to send their 8-80 year old family member on any of those streets? o Last year a 69 year old cyclist died on another Class 3 Bike Route - Kings Mountain Road. Class 3 are clearly not All -Ages -All -Abilities and certainly not safe. . There are no active bicycle projects on Redwood Ave, Roosevelt Ave or Vera Ave. There will also be no cycle tracks on James Ave or Brewster Ave. to improve Safe -Routes -To -Transit. . All these RWCMoves bicycle projects would be more important for the City and this TOD than inequitable and low -ranking projects like Ferry Service and Blomquist Bridge. . These two projects alone would pay for all higher ranking bicycle improvements for residents within RWCMoves and are only done for high -wage out-of-town commuters. So far I have not seen any commitment by the city towards Vision Zero, Climate Change, Transportation Equity, Safe -Routes -To -School, Safe -Routes -To -Transit, Complete Streets, Air Pollution, etc. Instead of continuously investing into false advertising (why would you need another bicycle plan, you just paid several hundred thousand for RWCMoves three years ago), start with three arteries in your jurisdiction that are fairly easy: Brewster Ave. all the way from Emerald Hills to the new 101 underpass (to make that investment more valuable) Roosevelt Ave all the way from EI Camino to Alameda de Las Pulgas to help kids from high- density neighborhoods get to Roosevelt, Kennedy, Ford and Woodside High. Peninsula Bikeway (Mountain View to San Mateo and beyond) along Middlefield Road - through downtown and Centennial to Stafford and Old County Road. best regards, Gerd Stieler