Folks in that part of the world invented one kind of superhighway. Now they might get another.
San Jose is the largest city and seat of Santa Clara County, California. Just south of San Francisco, the county is part of "Silicon Valley," where the technology that brought this blog to your screen--often called the "information superhighway" was developed.
Now it might see a "superhighway" that's more closely associated with parts of Europe than any place in the United States. It would run 10 miles through San Jose and Santa Clara. What would differentiate it from the county's 800 miles of bikeways and 200 miles of dedicated bike trails is continuity. Local activists and commuters, like their counterparts in other US locales (including my hometown), complain that too many lanes and trails go from "nowhere to nowhere," beginning and ending in seemingly-arbitrary spots, and are thus not useful as transportation conduits.
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| From San Jose Spotlight |
This "superhighway" was recently proposed as part of the Santa Clara Countywide Bike Plan. Three different routes have been suggested. Information about the progress of this project can be found on the Valley Transportation Authority's website--which you will access, of course, by the other kind of superhighway.
