SERVICES | TRANSPORTATION PLANNING - BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES

This service coordinates and plans regional bike and pedestrian projects both from a commute and a recreation standpoint.

The map below illustrates the Bike Trail Projects that currently exist, are actively funded, or planned but unfunded. This map depicts the bike trail projects that offer a commute alternative and does not show every bike trail. Click on the colored routes to learn details about each segments location.

Pedestrian Priority Areas

Walking is an important mode of transportation in San José for a wide variety of trips, such as accessing transit, attending school, visiting parks, and enjoying the outdoors. To accommodate this pedestrian activity, all streets should have sidewalks, street trees, and features to ensure a pleasant and safe walk.

Certain locations in San José, identified as Pedestrian Corridors, are planned for higher levels of pedestrian activity as depicted in the Pedestrian Priority Areas Diagram below. These locations include the Downtown Core, Neighborhood Business Districts, transit station areas, and certain Planned Communities. The General Plan encourages pedestrian friendly development and land uses which best support these pedestrian activity areas.

The Pedestrian Diagram identifies two types of pedestrian facilities:

Pedestrian Corridors: The corridors include the Transit-Oriented Development Corridors, and Neighborhood Business Districts. In some cases, the Pedestrian Corridors provide a connection to transit stations or Pedestrian Cores.

Pedestrian Cores: The cores include the Downtown Core, areas around rail stations, and the Planned Communities of Rincon South, Jackson-Taylor, Midtown, Tamien, and Communications Hill. For light rail stations, the Pedestrian Core area is within one-quarter mile and within one-half mile for Caltrain and other heavy rail stations.

Click on any one of the four quadrants of the map and you will see an enlarged section of that map. An enlargement of the Downtown Core Area is also available.