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Sunnyvale City Council Approves Bike Lane Project amid Community Concerns

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05 December, 2025

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Sunnyvale has elected to continue with their project to install two bike lane strips along the outskirts of an area where automobile access is currently limited. A debate took place after many hours of discussion with numerous members of the public concerning this issue on June 26, 2023 at 12:00 pm. Even though the City Council has approved this project, no funds have been allocated at this time. It may take several years before any actual developments occur related to this business. However, the City Council's action represents a significant advance in the sustainable development of these projects and an established within the City of Sunnyvale of a potential method to implement such projects through public input over the past 12 months.

“Certain residents … will feel safer. But it will also cause a certain amount of issues for residents that are living along this corridor,” said Mayor Larry Klein. “There’s a lot of other work that we need to get done before we actually get around to implementing this.” The section of road (bike path) that connects residential and commercial areas, including schools, parks, etc., that lead into downtown, contains no dedicated bicycle lane. This means that while other users will utilize this same area for commuting in Sunnyvale.

“That’s the road that’s technically supposed to get high school students safely to school, but instead doubles as a daily obstacle course,” said local student Sara Mosin who relied on the strip of road to commute and argued that the bike lanes with the buffer zone were “the only option that offers a real choice, a real chance at safety as a city.” The staff presented three major options; 1) To keep everything the same. 2) To retain some existing parking while also providing for bicycle lanes. 3) To remove all parking and provide for bicycle lanes with a minimum of 3 feet of painted buffer space around the bikes. Regardless of the option chosen, both bicycle lane options are projected to approximate $5 million.