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Summer is approaching fast, and with summer comes longer days, warmer weather, and more time to walk and roll with friends and family. As students age into new classes, new schedules, and even new schools, routes to schools change and opportunities to bike to new places present themselves! Are you and your kids looking for a way to hone your bike skills? Consider joining one of our Middle School Bike Classes or join a bike club or local community group. On behalf of Cupertino Safe Routes to School, bike safe and enjoy your summer!
Register for Middle School Bike Skills
As children enter middle school, they are developmentally ready to spread their wings of independence and go places on their own, but still need to learn how to keep themselves safe on the road. Also, middle school is often farther from home than a student’s local neighborhood elementary school, so they may need to cross bigger roads to get there.
Middle School Bike Skills is a one-day bike workshop where participants learn how to become confident riders by learning the rules of the road, practicing bike handling skills, and putting it all into practice during a group neighborhood ride. We're offering four of these classes this Summer in Cupertino, with the first one coming up on June 8!
Learn more and sign up here: cupertino.gov/saferoutes/msbs
Bike Clubs and Community Groups
If you're looking for people to ride with, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition has compiled an extensive list of local bike clubs, camps, and community groups. Check it out!
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Bike Champion of the Year- Han Yeung!
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) recently named Saratoga's own Han Yeung as their 2025 Bicycle Champion of the Year for Santa Clara County! Han has been cycling since Covid when his dad advised him to spend more time outside. He initially started biking up and down his neighborhood and it was there that he discovered his joy for cycling. Inspired by this love, he worked with fellow students to start the Saratoga High School Bike Club and the club has seen great success! For Yeung, the Biking Club is an opportunity to get to know students with a shared interest in cycling, and he finds that his shared biking passion allows him to trust others and rely on them, too.
“We found a connection in the Biking Club that we didn’t find in a lot of places outside,” he said.
This past Fall, the club expanded their reach and joined us at our annual Bike Fest, hosting a booth to help people create personal bike license plates. We are inspired by Han's passion and look forward to continued collaborations.
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ATP Survey Reminder
Thank you to everyone who has already participated in the Cupertino Active Transportation Plan (ATP) Phase I survey! For everyone else, you have until June 6 to share feedback on current walking and biking conditions in Cupertino. We'd love to hear from you.
More information and survey link.
This summer, the project will transition into Phase II, shifting focus to identifying and prioritizing specific infrastructure improvements and programmatic recommendations. During this phase, we will hold more community workshops and launch a new survey to gather feedback on proposed project recommendations. Continued engagement will ensure the final plan reflects community priorities. Stay involved and help shape Cupertino’s future transportation network!
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Mindful Driving Challenge- Thank a Crossing Guard!
During drop off and pick up times, regular streets suddenly become a Mad Max landscape of cars, bikes, and pedestrians all in a rush around the school. It’s all for only 20-30 minutes, so it doesn’t make sense to install stop signs or traffic lights that will govern what is normally light traffic for the other 23 hours of the day. But something has to keep the chaos under control! Which is where our local heroes, the Crossing Guards, come in. They make sure the kids cross the street at the crosswalk, batch the kids in big groups instead of a trickle so car and bike traffic can keep moving, make sure kids walk their bikes in the crosswalks instead of weaving in and out of the pedestrians … in short, they keep us all safe. Your challenge for June, before leaving for summer vacation, is to take a minute to thank your crossing guards.
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This summer, the City will be constructing a protected two-way bike path along the school’s frontage, designed to create a safer and more accessible route for students. This new bike path will be located on the street, along the north side of Forest Avenue and the west side of Vista Drive. To make way for this essential enhancement, on-street parking will be removed only along the Lawson Middle School frontage; no parking spaces in front of residential homes will be affected. This school improvement was originally recommended in the City of Cupertino and Cupertino Union School District's (CUSD) school walk audit at Lawson Middle School and we're excited to break ground on the project this summer!
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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.gov
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.
- Thursday, June 5
FUHSD Last Day of School
- Friday, June 6
CUSD Last Day of School
- Sunday, June 8, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cupertino Middle School Bike Skills Class
Location: Cupertino Senior Center
- Sunday, June 22, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cupertino Middle School Bike Skills Class
Location: Cupertino Senior Center
- Wednesday, June 18, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, July 16, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
- Sunday, August 10, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cupertino Middle School Bike Skills Class
Location: Cupertino Senior Center
- Thursday, August 14
CUSD First Day of School
- Monday, August 18
FUHSD First Day of School
- Wednesday, August 20, 4:00 p.m.
SR2S Working Group Meeting
Topic: TBD
- Wednesday, August 20, 7:00 p.m.
Bicycle Pedestrian Commission
Topic: TBD
- Sunday, August 24, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cupertino Middle School Bike Skills Class
Location: Cupertino Senior Center
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