Sometimes keeping yourself and everyone else on the road safer is just a matter of scheduling your day a little bit differently. For 20 minutes every morning, normally quiet streets suddenly become a Mad Max landscape of cars and bikes and pedestrians. The craziness only lasts for a very brief, specific time though. If you live near a school or along a major school commute route, it’s sometimes best to just plan your schedule to avoid those 20 minutes.  

K – 8^th grade will start August 15
CUSD (Cupertino Union School District) Bell Schedules

High School classes will start August 19
FUHSD (Fremont Union High School District) Bell Schedules

Cars can't avoid you if they can't see you!

• Ride where cars expect you
• Signal your moves in advance
• Wear bright, reflective colors

Have your lights and reflectors visible

There's still time to sign up for a Middle School Bike Skills Clinic!

These workshops are designed for students who will be in middle school this fall. They prepare students to ride to school and beyond with lessons on the rules of the road, bike handling skills drills, and a neighborhood bike ride to tie all the lessons together.

Give your student (and yourself!) the gift of independence through bike safety. There are a few more openings left on both August 11 and August 18, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Cupertino Senior Center. Learn more and register here:

www.cupertino.org/msbs

How to stay safe while walking and biking on city streets is a life skill, just like math and reading. So the Cupertino Safe Routes to School team is partnering with Cupertino schools to bring traffic safety education to students. We’ll be offering pedestrian safety training to all Kindergarteners and 2^nd graders this year and bicycle safety training to all 4^th graders and middle school students. These programs are scheduled through the schools. Please contact your school office if you’d like to know the schedule or help out.

Work with us to ensure that your child's school is educating and encouraging students to walk, bike, and carpool to school. We're especially looking for parents at these schools:

• Collins Elementary
• Stevens Creek Elementary
• Homestead High School

Parent Champion Sign-Up

Mark Your Calendars - Fall Bike Fest is Coming Soon!

Join us on Saturday, September 28 for the City’s annual Fall Bike Fest to celebrate all things bike!

Activities: Cupertino Safe Routes to School is working with partners to bring bike education and fun to this event: get your bike and helmet checked, decorate your bike, make a smoothie on the blender bike, create bike-themed art, learn how to pump your bike tires, join a family bike ride, and kids - go through “Safe Moves City,” a mini bicycle course to learn to be a safe cyclist.

Rides: There will be two bike rides this year. A 2-5-mile kids’ ride will go through parks and include activity stops along the way. A 10 mile park tour will highlight some of the Cupertino’s amazing parks, trails and green spaces.

Come have fun and learn!

Fall Bike Fest
Civic Center Plaza
Saturday, September 28
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
cupertino.org/bikefest

Fall Bike Fest is paid for in part by :

McClellan Road Upgrades

The separated bike lane on McClellan Road now continues across DeAnza Boulevard to Pacifica Drive! Thanks to much hard work by the City’s Capital Improvement Project Team, the project was officially finished up in July.

This phase of the McClellan Road Separated Bike Lane Project (Phase 3) included:

• Adjustment of vehicle movements to enhance bicycle facilities
• Installation of a pedestrian crosswalk across De Anza Blvd on the south side of the intersection
• Relocation of traffic signal mast arm poles
• Relocation of adjacent public utilities

Check it out and tell us what you think!

McClellan Road Separated Bike Corridor

DeAnza Boulevard Buffered Bike Lanes

Buffered bike lanes will be installed along the 1.73mile stretch of DeAnza Boulevard between Homestead Road and Bollinger Road this fall/winter. Your patience during construction will be appreciated.