SILICON VALLEY BICYCLE COALITION
96 N Third St Ste 375, San Jose, CA 95112 bikesiliconvalley.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Our purpose is to create a healthy community, environment, and economy through bicycling for people who live, work, or play in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.

SVBC promotes increased bicycle use in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties through educational programs, advocacy for improved infrastructure, safety campaigns, outreach to motorists, and encouragement events, with the goal that 10% of trips are taken by bike by 2025.

Outreach and Advocacy: An important part of our mission is to promote safe conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians, while encouraging bicycling for all purposes and for all people. We meet regularly with public officials and agency representatives in 36 jurisdictions within San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to promote convenient and safe bicycle infrastructure. We continue to work to get bike lanes and other safety measures for bicyclists installed. We convene volunteer teams in several geographic areas to advise on local needs of bicycle infrastructure and policy change. In 2019-20, our local teams of advocates in San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Redwood City continued to meet regularly to discuss issues of local importance. Some issues, such as e-scooter regulations, bike access on Caltrain, and equity in the bicycling movement, made their way to our Policy Advisory Committee to be discussed and recommended for further action by SVBC staff. We hosted our seventh annual Silicon Valley Bike Summit, which brings together professionals, advocates, politicians, and public agency employees in a community event focused on planning for health, environmental security, and enhanced communities. The Summit featured speakers from state and international bicycling organizations as well as local agency staff and bike bloggers. We worked with the San Mateo County Transportation Agency to increase transportation funding through 2049 Measure W and ensured that additional funding would be appropriated to bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. The SVBC works strategically in broad advocacy initiatives that will help achieve the set goal to see a 10% increase of trips by bike by 2025, furthering the mission to create a healthy community, environment, and economy through bicycling in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.

Bike Clinic: The San Jose Bike Clinic is a volunteer-run fiscally sponsored program with goal of teaching bike repair and maintenance skills to interested community members and to encourage bicycle culture in the local area. The Bike Clinic was able to rent a space in downtown San Jose where they hold clinics four evenings a week. We worked with the City of San Jose to help plan and market Viva Calle San Jose, an open-streets program consisting of events that temporarily close long segments of city streets to vehicle traffic, making them fully accessible to people moving by foot, bike, scooter, skateboard, or any other means of non-motorized travel. We do valet bike parking at numerous venues throughout the year, a service that promotes ridership by making sure people's bikes are safe when they ride to events. We worked with the bike coalitions in San Francisco and East Bay on a program to make sure that the new bike share program is accessible to low-income communities. Bicycle Education: Safety education is one of our most important services. We conduct bike safety classes for both children and adults. During the 2017-18 school year our classroom on-bike safety program reached over 6,000 children in the San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Additionally, we are working with low-income communities to provide bicycle education.Equity & Inclusion: Our mission and vision cannot be achieved without making our cultural humility and social justice central to our work.

Bike to Work Day: Each May, SVBC hosts Bike to Work Day, which is a Bay Area wide celebration of bicycle commuting with the purpose of publicizing bicycling to work as a commute option and to encourage people to try it out. Energizer stations are set up by employers and volunteers throughout Silicon Valley to provide participating cyclists with goodie bags and refreshments during their ride to work. We also promote the Team Bike Challenge and the Company Bike Challenge, competitions that encourage participants to bike to work during the month. In addition to coordinating all event logistics, SVBC leverages the energy of the event through press conferences and other media to focus public attention on the benefits of bicycling.

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