MPBG October 2019 Newsletter

Which Council District Map Do You Prefer? Over the summer, the City launched a community-driven map drawing process to determine the six Council district boundaries for Sunnyvale elections in November 2020 (should the ballot measure succeed). A total of 26 community maps were submitted for consideration and Council has narrowed the options to four maps. [...]

April 13, 2020|

Bike to Work Day Postponed to September 2020

Due to COVID-19, the Bay Area Bike to Work Day has been postponed from May 14 to Thursday Sept 24, 2020. Some alternative bicycling activities will likely occur during Bike Month in May. Details TBD, stay tuned.

March 30, 2020|

VTA and Muni Suspend Light Rail Services Indefinetly

VTA and Muni public transit agencies have suspended all light rail and subway services due to the impcasts fromthe Covid-19 Pandemic. VTA Under the County’s Shelter-in-Place order, VTA is prioritizing essential service to hospitals, health care facilities, pharmacies, grocery stores, food banks, shelters and other essential destinations during this time of extraordinary caution. This map [...]

March 30, 2020|

Public Transit Changes due to Covid-19

The Covid-19 Pandemic has greatly impacted public transit agencies and car traffic volumes. In every corner of public transit, ridership is down anywhere from 56%, (VTA buses), to 90%, (BART trains). Even traffic volume has dropped significantly, such as 51% of San Francisco traffic on March 20.   While public health officials have identified public [...]

March 30, 2020|

Moffett Park Specific Plan Study Issue

Sunnyvale with its community members are creating a new vision and guiding principles for the future of Moffett Park. This initiative, a comprehensive update to the Specific Plan, will result in a new long-range planning document that maintains the uniqueness of Moffett Park and creates opportunities for improvements in how every aspect of the district—including [...]

March 4, 2020|

Stop the Bleed Training

Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives. To prepare yourself and your ERT to assist injured people following a traumatic event, the City of Sunnyvale DPS and Moffett Park Business Group are offering a free [...]

January 21, 2020|

City of Sunnyvale Needs Your Voice on the Active Transportation Plan

The ATP is a year-long effort, started in April 2019, by the City of Sunnyvale to create a plan that will address bicycle, pedestrian and Safe Routes to School needs throughout Sunnyvale. Recommended programs and future projects will be guided by a technical analysis that includes: Bicycling and pedestrian collision history Locations of bicycling and [...]

October 14, 2019|

Facebook Moves Into Moffett Park

Facebook joins other companies, such as Lockheed Martin, Juniper Networks, NetApp and Google, in Sunnyvale's Moffett Park, unveiling on Wednesday, its new space at Moffett Towers II. This is the first move into one of three eight-story buildings totaling 1.05 million square feet that Facebook leased in Jay Paul’s Moffett Towers II development. The other [...]

September 27, 2019|

Permanent Closure of a Section Moffett Park Drive

  As a part of the Mathilda Avenue Improvement at SR237 and US101 Project, Moffett Park Drive between Mathilda Avenue and Bordeaux Drive will be closing permanently, during the evening of August 1, 2019, in preparation for the realigning of the Westbound SR 237 off-ramp onto Mathilda Avenue. Motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians will continue to [...]

August 5, 2019|