New Bicycle Bridge Construction
Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008
New
bicycle overpasses are under construction in Cupertino, Mountain View
and Sunnyvale. Here are photos taken on a ride today.
Mary
Avenue in over Highway 280 in Cupertino, taken from the South side.
This suspension bridge will provide a very direct and quiet
route to Homestead High School and DeAnza college, and with any luck
will attract many new riders that may not be all that comfortable
mixing with heavy traffic on the existing routes.
Stevens Creek Trail at Moffett Blvd in Mountain View, looking south back up the exit from Highway 85.
The
new bridge will come straight over the position of the crane towards
the point the photo is from, paralleling the freeway and crossing both
the exit ramp and Moffett.
The trail remains open during the construction, with short detour.
Borregas Avenue over Hwy 237 in Sunnyvale. Photo taken from Moffet Park Dr., facing East, at Borregas.
This,
plus Borregas over Hwy 101, will be great additions to the area,
as there are no nearby viable alternatives. Mathilda through the
pair of freeway interchanges is truly a nightmare.
Borregas Ave bridge over Hwy 101 in Sunnyvale. Looking East along Ahwanee Ave, the freeway frontage road.
Sleeper Ave, Mountain View, looking at Stevens Creek (the actual creek, not the road).
The
next section of the Stevens Creek trail to be built will come to here,
a point that is far more pleasant to ride to than the current trail end
on El Camino, in the middle of the Highway 85 freeway interchange.
Construction is supposed to start later this year.
The Stevens Creek trail ends here, at El Camino. Straight ahead from here to Sleeper Ave.
The
new Stevens Creek trail tunnel under El Camino, which opened this past
April. Very nice. Unfortunately, I can't say the same
about riding on this part of El Camino, which is for now the only way
to get here.
Until the extension to Sleeper is built, if
you want to ride the trail, I suggest picking it up at Mercy or Dana in
Mountain View. Calderon/Phyllis is a good place to cross
El Camino if you are coming from that general direction.