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document.write("\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\"><P class=header_sub>Project Description<BR><SPAN class=bodytext_norml>Menlo Park, with its temperate climate and relatively flat terrain, provides an excellent setting for bicycling almost year-round. This project creates a comprehensive city-wide vision for traffic and transportation facilities for bicyclists of all ability levels. With input from diverse stakeholders, the goal is to prepare guidelines and identify priorities for the next five years that will make bike travel safer, more feasible and more attractive to school children, commuters, shoppers, and recreational riders.</SPAN></P><P></td>\n");
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document.write("\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\"><P class=header_sub>History<BR><SPAN class=bodytext_norml>Having a comprehensive bicycle plan in place is required to qualify for many traffic infrastructure grants from CalTrans, California's state transportation agency. The city received a grant from CalTrans to create a bicycle plan in 2003. The project is expected to last about one year. It consists of two main elements: study on existing bicycle facilities, usage, and demand; and recommendations of opportunities to improve or build new facilities to meet demand or to promote increased bicycle usage. The input and active involvement of the public is central to both collecting useful data and making relevant recommendations.</SPAN></P>\n");
document.write("<P><SPAN class=bodytext_norml>Other cities in the area, including Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara, have recently developed comprehensive bicycle plans. The Menlo Park plan is being created to co-ordinate with these neighbor plans, to ensure that the Menlo Park recommendations will best fit and help provide regional cycling options.</SPAN></P><P></td>\n");
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document.write("\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\"><P class=bodytext_norml>Example for Potential Project Focus: Bicycle use, especially among schoolchildren, has decreased significantly over the past decade. More and more parents are driving their kids to school because of perceptions that the route is less safe than it could be. Increased traffic density and speeds can intimidate adult bicyclists as well. In cooperation with schoolteachers in Menlo Park, students and city staff will begin to assess travel patterns of schoolchildren and their families to provide a rich source of data on one of the main reasons people travel through the city. This will help identify where bicycle facilities would be of most use.</P>\n");
document.write("<P class=bodytext_norml>An employer survey will help identify current bicycle commuters and help identify improvements from both the city and from employers which facilitate bicycle commuting. Additional opportunities for public input on bicycle facilities that need improvement will be provided in public spaces and public workshops as the project progresses.</P><P></td>\n");
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document.write("\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\"><p><span class=\"header_sub\">Current Status</span> \n");
document.write("  <br /><span class=\"bodytext_norml\">The City Council approved the Comprehensive Bicycle Plan with edits on December 14, 2004. The City Council also approved the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) Environmental Document for the City Bike Plan.&nbsp; \n");
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document.write("\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\"><span class=\"header_sub\">Next Steps</span>\n");
document.write("<br /><span class=\"bodytext_norml\">The next step for the Comprehensive Bicycle Plan is implementation, which will be contingent on available funding.</span>\n");
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document.write("  <br /><span class=\"bodytext_norml\">Project Manager: Randolph Craig\n");
document.write("  <br />E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:rmcraig@menlopark.org\">rmcraig@menlopark.org</a> \n");
document.write("  <br />Phone: 650.330.6770</span> \n");
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