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written comment: 8/9/2022 Council meeting, Agenda Item 5.2, “Transit First Policy”, SUPPORT Liana Crabtree <
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Honorable Mayor Liccardo, Vice Mayor Jones, and Council Members Jimenez, Peralez, Cohen, Carrasco, Davis, Esparza, Arenas, Foley, Mahan:
Please include this letter as part of the public record for the 8/9/2022 Council meeting, Agenda Item 5.2, “Transit First Policy”.
Please SUPPORT the passage of Agenda Item 5.2, “Transit First Policy”, where funding and infrastructure priority will focus on Grand Boulevards, High Quality Transit (“Transit routes served by headways of 15 minutes or less, with buses, trains, or other vehicles arriving at a stop within every 15 minutes during peak commute hours”), and Public Transit System.
Comment 1: I recently visited Downtown Minneapolis (summertime visit) and was so appreciative of narrowed streets in the City Center that prioritize walking and transit use. As a regular transit rider in Santa Clara County, I welcome more “human- scale” streets that prioritize pedestrian safety and access.
Comment 2: Related to the goal of prioritizing “High Quality Transit”, please consider for future an endorsement of the expansion of frequency and hours of operation of VTA Route 51 (Moffet Field/Ames Center - West Valley College) serving destinations popular with San José residents, including De Anza College and Downtown Mountain View. To expand the frequency and service of VTA Route 51 would also have the added benefit of unlocking many more priority sites for affordable housing development in the West Valley communities of Saratoga, West San José, West Cupertino, Los Altos, and Mountain View (as the State has decided—agree or disagree—that proximity to a bus route with a threshold schedule of frequency and service hours shall confer land use entitlements for “transit-oriented development”—preferably for the development of safe, stable, long-term, affordable housing).
Finally, Thank You to Monica Mallon, “transit advocate in Santa Clara County” for the article “San Jose to Consider Transit First Policy on August 9th” alerting others to today’s important Council vote on San José’s Transit First Policy and to Eugene Bradley of Silicon Valley Transit Users for promoting Monica’s article today.
Sincerely,
Liana Crabtree
Cupertino resident
VTA Transit Rider
References
Memorandum, Transit First Policy, 7/25/2022: https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx? M=F&ID=11100098&GUID=D9C99876-B678-4161-A827-ED8A1010F3C3 VTA Route 51, Moffet Field/Ames Center - West Valley College: https://www.vta.org/go/routes/51
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This message is from outside the City email system. Do not open links or attachments from untrusted sources. “San Jose to Consider Transit First Policy on August 9th” by Monica Mallon, 8/5/2022, Medium: https://medium.com/@monicamallon/san-jose-to-consider-transit-first-policy-on-august-9th-4fce4f16ec85 Silicon Valley Transit Users: https://www.svtransitusers.org
August 9, 2022
San José City Council
City of San José
200 E. Santa Clara Street
San José CA 95113
Comments for Item 5.1 File 22-1135 – Move San José – and Item 5.2 File 22-1136 – Transit First Policy.
Dear Mayor Liccardo, Vice Mayor Jones and Councilmembers:
SPUR submits this letter in regard to the following two items on today’s Council agenda; Move San José and the Transit First Policy. We commend the city and staff in pursuing strategies, projects, and policies that will move San José closer to meeting its environmental, equity, and economic goals. To that end, SPUR has been a supporter of the city’s efforts to align its many transportation policies and strategies to better serve people traveling within the city by prioritizing transit operations and improving access.
Given that the adoption of these proposed policy changes will align with San José’s Envision 2040 General Plan, Climate Smart Plan, and Zero Emissions 2030 Pledge, the Council will be taking an important step toward bringing San José and its residents a more connected and sustainable city. And while the COVID-19 pandemic required a reprioritization of work plans and progress on the City Roadmap process, the development of the Move San José and Transit Priority Plan advanced with the convening of council and community workgroups and engagement plans that included and uplifted the input of communities across the city.
We are supportive of the strategies outlined in Move San José and the Transit First Policy that will bring the city’s many efforts under one roof. Moreover, Move San José’s focus on key goals, metrics, performance indicators, and co-creation with community organizations and the public will ensure that good planning will guide the city’s decision-making process. These elements are critical as the city moves forward with the
final adoption and implementation of changes such as
its update to citywide parking policy and transportation demand management, which will be
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From: Daniel Strokis <
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2022 1:52 PM
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Subject: Transit Fist Policy
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council,
I would like to voice my support for a Transit First Policy in San Jose. Improving transit opera ons in our city just makes sense. Improved transit:
Takes cars off the streets, which reduces air pollu on, green house gases, and traffic fatali es Decreases traffic conges on, thereby reducing wear and tear on our roads Supports businesses by removing the need to construct parking, and makes it more likely that people will visit businesses that don’t have much (if any) parking
But improving transit opera ons in SJ will be an uphill ba le if transit is an a erthought during city planning and development. Please vote for a transit first policy, for the sake of our ci zens and our environment.
Sincerely,
- Daniel Strokis
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