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About 350 people jammed inside the Fox Theatre to hear plans of transforming El Camino and other streets along that corridor as part of the Grand Boulevard Initiative, an effort spearheaded by Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network. …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
East Bay officials are hoping to get $15 million to complete environmental studies and preliminary engineering. Bottom line: It's going to be many years before this interchange improves. Q There have been two motorcycle deaths in four months on …
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It fails in terms of housing. And it fails to get people through here quickly." The idea is to look at what Redwood City and other Peninsula cities are doing to renovate downtowns to make them places people want to go instead of being mere places that …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The new commercials for FasTrak initially featured a cartooned Mayor Gavin Newsom riding in his car and saying something. I noticed that now the same commercial is sans the mayor. Did he not like his cartoon appearance or is there another reason for …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Caltrans says the new eastbound lane is saving 15 minutes of travel time, double what the state had hoped. In another year or so, new merging lanes and longer ramps will be added on I-205, a needed improvement on a road that was built in 1970 as a …
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Was this a revenue-generating event? A San Jose's traffic enforcement unit doesn't conduct fix-it ticket operations. Its main focus is on speeding, unsafe lane changing and other safety violations in the 18 areas of the city with the highest crash …
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By Gary Richards Silicon Valley has a brand new landmark, one that promises to attract the attention of anyone motoring down Interstate 280 through Cupertino and Sunnyvale. The Mary Avenue pedestrian and bicycle bridge opens today, and while the large, …
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The Cupertino City Council subsequently withdrew its endorsement and the project died. The result was a very wide Mary Avenue ending abruptly at large dirt embankments on both sides of the freeway. For Burnett, a Lockheed engineer who bicycled to work …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
But they could have been celebrating more: They ride in what has become the most bike-friendly county in the Bay Area, and Wednesday's event kicked off an unprecedented $40 million worth of improvements stretching from Cupertino to Santa Clara to San …
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The event runs from 1 to 4 pm at the Jewish Community Center, 14855 Oka Road in Los Gatos. For reservations and more information, ring up 408-278-5300, or write to jehrhardt@verizon.net. No credit cards accepted. Please be sure to bring a photo ID. …