Sunnyvale holds second community meeting on Hollenbeck Avenue bike‑lane feasibility study

City of Sunnyvale staff and consultants presented three preliminary options for adding bicycle facilities on Hollenbeck Avenue at a second community meeting and answered questions from nearby residents and bicycle‑safety advocates.

The project team — led by Eric Trujillo, city traffic engineer and project manager — said the study’s goal is “to evaluate the feasibility of adding, bike lanes along Hollenbeck to close the the bike lane gap” between existing bike lanes north of Danforth Drive and south of Alberta Avenue. Shikha Jain of Hexagon Transportation Consultants summarized outreach and data collection and repeated that the team developed alternatives based on collision records, observed bike counts and on‑street parking counts.

Why it matters: Hollenbeck is a roughly 40‑foot curb‑to‑curb residential collector with a 30 mph speed limit and on‑street parking on both sides. The corridor contains homes, two schools, churches and parks. Residents use curb parking for household vehicles, visitors and service vehicles; the project would change how that parking is provided along the corridor and would require intersection modifications at Remington, Torrington and Fremont.

What the team presented

- Alternative 1: Buffered bike lanes in both directions (6‑ft bike lanes plus a 3‑ft buffer), which would remove on‑street parking along Hollenbeck and narrow travel lanes to about 11 ft. The team said buffers provide the greatest physical separation but that intersection geometry — and a VTA bus route — limit lane width at several locations, so buffers may not continue through every intersection.

- Alternative 2: Standard bike lanes (5–6 ft) with alternating on‑street parking retained on one side of the street. Travel lanes would be narrowed to about 10–11 ft. The design uses transition zones between parking segments; the team estimated that…