Safe Routes to School

Criticized the inactive Safe Routes to School program and long delays in the traffic calming program, noting most requests never get petitions turned in or meet traffic thresholds.

Supported the Safe Routes to School priority project and asked for microtransit coverage for the Stocklmeir feeder area, with a 157-family petition.

Supported Safe Routes to School with modifications (metrics, stakeholder meetings, staffing, move to Transportation) and described his wheelchair getting caught in a sidewalk hole to underscore the sidewalk backlog.

Speaking for Sunnyvale Safe Streets, urged approval of the Safe Routes to School project with the elements that make peer programs successful: traffic-engineering leadership, stakeholder meetings, and clear metrics.

Remote speaker supporting the Sustainability Commission's recommendations and Safe Routes to School, drawing on her volunteer experience with the program.

Urged changes to the Safe Routes to School program: set metrics and goals, move it from Public Safety to Transportation, and hire more staff.

Speaking for Sunnyvale Safe Streets, supported the Safe Routes to School revival and sidewalk backlog projects, opposed increased school-zone traffic enforcement as expensive, and urged keeping the Fair Oaks signalization and pedestrian scramble studies.

A school district board member speaking personally, supported the Safe Routes to School revival and the student-centered sustainability and nature-based project.

Urged enthusiastic support for reviving Safe Routes to School, emphasizing education and encouragement so students can bike and walk safely and independently.

SNAIL chair said Boregas has no safe west-east crossings and asked the council to move the crossing from Duane to Eaglewood as a safer route to school.

Continued the Safe Streets presentation, urging a Cupertino-style Safe Routes to School program and a citywide speed limit reduction plan under AB 43.