Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition

As an organization, we're committed to promoting the bicycle for everyday use, which means making bicycling a safe and viable mode of transportation across the whole of Silicon Valley.

To do this, we focus on creating bicycle infrastructure and removing obstacles to bicycling. For example, we work to:

• Encourage agencies to expand and maintain bicycle friendly streets, expressways, bridges, greenways, and bikeways.
• Reduce traffic collisions and traffic related stress by educating cyclists, pedestrians, and motorists.
• Encourage pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists to share street space.
• Encourage agencies to provide more bicycle parking facilities at transit stations, businesses, multi-family residences, and other locations.
• Consult with employers on how best to encourage employee bicycle commuting through providing fun incentives, showers, lockers, and bike parking.
• Encourage agencies to adequately accommodate bicycles on public transportation.
• Provide a space for cyclists to offer input and receive information on local road projects.
• Shift government policy toward alternative transportation.

How We Get There

We work towards addressing and solving these issues through our programs, events and active members. Check out our program pages for more details. Some highlights of our activities follow:

• We Implement Bicyclist Education Programs that teach cyclists the skills they need to safely and confidently navigate traffic by bicycle.
• We reach out to both motorists and pedestrians with our Share the Road program.
• We bring cycling clubs and organizations together into a unified voice working to improve bicycle facilities and infrastructure.
• We provide valet bicycle parking at events including all Stanford University home football games and numerous city festivals and events.
• We serve as a clearinghouse for bicycle advocates and our members through our support of the local Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committees (BPACs), publication of the Spinning Crank, and maintenance of our website.
• We coordinate advocacy campaigns, such as our Guadalupe River Corridor campaign, to work on specific problem areas.
• We reach out to new cyclists through our annual Bike to Work Month festivities.
• We grow our membership to provide greater collective bicycling influence so local policymakers know that bicycling is important to their constituencies.