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Cupertino council presses staff for clearer metrics, vehicle impacts in active transportation plan
Summary
Council received an ATP update, asked staff for more vehicle data, requested scenario testing of prioritization criteria and directed staff to incorporate planning-commission input, cost-effectiveness and grant potential into scoring.
The Cupertino City Council on Tuesday received an update on the city’s Active Transportation Plan and gave staff direction to refine project‑prioritization criteria after council members and residents raised concerns about data gaps and vehicle impacts.
City transportation manager David Stillman and consultant Christopher Kidd of Alta Planning and Design presented Phase 1 outreach results and the team’s data‑driven approach, which combines a level‑of‑traffic‑stress (LTS) analysis and an active‑trip potential model using anonymized Replika cell‑phone data. Kidd said the outreach reached nearly 1,400 people and generated about 3,000 comments and that roughly 30% of driving trips in Cupertino are under 5 miles — distances that may be candidates for biking or e‑biking.
“Those are trips that, while not every single 5‑mile driving trip could be replaced with a biking trip, some of them could,” Christopher Kidd said, summarizing the team’s…
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