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Are you a high school student in Cupertino with a passion for art? Here's your chance to showcase your creativity to the entire Cupertino community! We’re holding a Streetlight Banner Design Contest, inviting all students living in or attending a high school in Cupertino to create banners that will promote the following key City transportation themes/programs:
- The Joys of Walking and Biking
- Walk & Roll to School Events
- The Environmental Benefits of Sustainable Transportation
- Silicon Valley (SV) Hopper
- Cupertino’s Vision Zero Action Plan
Winning designs will be displayed on streetlights along DeAnza Boulevard, Stevens Creek Boulevard, Torre Avenue, and Stelling Road. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to public art while encouraging sustainable transportation. Submit your designs by February 28, 2025 to have a shot at seeing your artwork brighten up our city streets. Read more and submit your entry here.
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Elementary School Poster Contest- Submissions Due Soon!
Speaking of art, the Mineta Transportation Institute is hosting an Elementary School Poster Contest! This contest invites students in grades 1-6 to convey their knowledge of safe, affordable, and sustainable alternative transportation modes to passenger cars through an artistic, visually compelling image. This year’s theme is ‘Get Going, Go Green!’ Eight winners will be selected - four from grades 1-3 and four from grades 4-6, and all winning posters will be displayed at the annual Mineta Transportation Institute Banquet at San José State University in June. Submissions are due by Dec. 13th, 2024. You can learn more about this contest and submit your entry here.
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SR2S Receives $160,000 Grant for Education
We’re excited to announce that Cupertino Safe Routes to School has received a $160,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to enhance our Bicycle and Pedestrian Education Program! The grant, which provides funding through September 2025, will promote safe practices for pedestrians and bicyclists and emphasize the drivers’ responsibility to look out for the other people using roads and paths.
Grant funds will support various activities focused on bicycle and pedestrian safety:
- Pedestrian training courses that educate youth on safe walking behaviors
- Bicycle training courses that educate youth on safe riding behaviors
- Helmet fitting inspections and distribution of helmets to children in need
- Community and school education presentations
This grant is funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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An Important Recap of Our Educational Programming
Cupertino SR2S aims to normalize active transportation as a method of school travel. We believe in the potency of focusing our education and behavior change efforts on younger populations, since habits set early in life tend to continue. As such, we have been working diligently since 2020 to create a robust bicycle and pedestrian education program for Cupertino elementary and middle school students. We are proud to share that each year we offer four different pedestrian and bike safety education programs for Kinders, 2nd graders, 4th graders, and 6th graders! The kinder and 2nd grade classes receive pedestrian education in the form of in-class presentations and a walking fieldtrip, and our 4th and 6th graders receive bicycle safety education- both in the classroom and out on their bikes. In this way, students get to experience the teachings both cognitively and in their bodies in real time! These education programs are offered every year for our schools, and we have been steadily increasing the number of students reached each year with this material (see below for the numbers). Our ultimate goal is to offer education for every grade K-8, and in the meantime we are excited that our students are receiving this education at least every two years. These education programs are primarily grant-funded, and we are very grateful to our funders: VTA’s 2016 Measure B and the California Office of Traffic Safety.
 
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December Mindful Driving Challenge- See and Be Seen!
Your mindful driving challenge for December is to clean your car windows, lights, and mirrors whenever you get gas.
Time just changed so daylight is getting shorter and it’s dark longer. We all know how hard it is to see a person in the road dressed in dark clothing at night. But do we think about how it’s equally hard to see a car whose lights are all covered in dirt and grime? This month, we challenge you to take off your car’s black hoodie by wiping off your headlights and taillights the next time you’re at the gas station. And while you’re at it, take off the car’s sunglasses too by cleaning the windshield and re-adjusting your mirrors (here’s a great video on how to adjust your mirrors to eliminate blind spots). See and be seen again!
Check out Cupertino’s Back to School page for more tips and resources on getting to school safely.
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DeAnza Buffered Bike Lanes
Construction is under way! City of Cupertino is now working to install buffered bike lanes along the 1.73-mile stretch of DeAnza Boulevard between Homestead Road and Bollinger Road. All project work is taking place at night and is near complete! Check out this video for more about buffered bike lanes: https://youtu.be/DPd3pcWohXY?si=gbsmRUBFr9OkQVnQ
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SB 1216- No More Sharrows!
Beginning Jan 1, 2025, a new Senate Bill will prohibit the installation of any new sharrows on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour, except at or near an intersection for the purpose of connecting bikeways through the intersection.
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Join us for SR2S Working Group Meetings
Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Working Group meetings are Hybrid held on the second Wednesday of most months in Conference Room C at Cupertino City Hall and on Zoom. If there's a topic you'd like the Working Group to discuss, email us! saferoutes@cupertino.org
Visit the link below to register, access agendas, and view the complete list of dates for this school year’s Working Group meetings. We hope to see you at our next meeting!
Working Group Meetings
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Important Upcoming Dates
Agendas will be posted 72 hours before each meeting at the links below.
- Wednesday, December 18, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, January 8, 4:00 p.m.
SR2S Working Group Meeting
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, January 15, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, February 12, 4:00 p.m.
SR2S Working Group Meeting
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, February 19, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, March 12, 4:00 p.m.
SR2S Working Group Meeting
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, March 19, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
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