Transportation Planning

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Current Planning Efforts

As outlined in the General Plan:

“Citywide mobility is essential to Mountain View’s economy, health, community life and long-term sustainability. The [City’s] vision for community mobility includes an increasingly important focus on walking, bicycling and public transit. These modes reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve Mountain View’s overall health, wellness and livability.”

To move toward this vision, the City is undertaking transportation projects to improve walkability, bikeability, transit access and motor vehicle access, while enhancing the beauty, sustainability and vitality of public spaces. Current plans and studies are described in the following sections:

Visit our City Projects page for more information on transportation project that are in the design or construction phases.

AccessMV: Mountain View's Comprehensive Modal Plan

Access MV The City of Mountain View recently developed AccessMV, a Comprehensive Modal Plan to provide a consistent vision for the City's multimodal transportation network. Building on more than thirty existing local and regional transportation plans and studies, AccessMV analyzed Citywide bicycle level of traffic stress, pedestrian quality of service, potential transit demand, and vehicle conditions under existing and planned scenarios. AccessMV also assessed network overlaps, inconsistencies, and gaps between the different plans and studies. Proposed prioritization criteria were then developed to identify priority corridors, and prioritize transportation improvements.

Community engagement regarding AccessMV included the following:

An online survey
Virtual community meetings on October 22, 2020 and February 18, 2021
Presentations to the Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee (B/PAC) on February 26, 2020, June 24, 2020, September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2021
A Council Transportation Committee session on April 20, 2021
City Council consideration on November 10, 2020

The AccessMV Final Report was approved by Council on May 25, 2021.

Active Transportation Plan (ATP)

The City of Mountain View is kicking off work on the Active Transportation Plan (ATP), which will provide a roadmap of projects and policies to support walking, rolling, and biking in the City of Mountain View. The ATP aims to update and bring together the previously completed Pedestrian Master Plan and the Bicycle Transportation Plan, and will also incorporate green treatments as much as possible.

Visit our ATP webiste to join our email list!

Bernardo Avenue Undercrossing

The City of Mountain View is working collaboratively with the City of Sunnyvale and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) on Bernardo Avenue Undercrossing.

A Special Joint Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee Meeting between the two cities was held on this topic on December 2, 2020. Members of the public will be invited to provide input on this topic at a joint community meeting to be held in early 2021.

Castro Grade Separation and Transit Center Access Improvements

In May 2017, City Council adopted the Transit Center Master Plan as the first step in a multi-year process to plan, design and construct the new station area and improve Castro Street. The master planning process considered interrelated options for station access, expressway crossing, grade separation, platform extension, bus/shuttle circulation, vehicle parking and joint development with a view to supporting future Downtown vitality, station access, and multimodal circulation.

The conceptual plan adopted by Council includes the following:

Redirection of Castro Street at West Evelyn Avenue
Construction of a new ramp from West Evelyn Avenue to Shoreline Boulevard
Installation of pedestrian and bicycle undercrossings across the expressway and Caltrain tracks
Changes to Moffett/Central intersection
Platform widening and extension to the west

Transit Center Master Plan

The City is now working on the Next Steps, including more detailed design and environmental clearance.

Middlefield and Moffett Complete Streets Improvements

Middlefield Moffett Locator Map The City plans to repave portions of Moffett Boulevard and Middlefield Road. In conjunction with this pavement maintenance work, the City is exploring potential complete streets elements, which may include pedestrian crossing enhancements, on-street parking removal, and protected bikeways on Moffett Boulevard north of Middlefield Road as well as Middlefield Road between Moffett Boulevard and Bernardo Avenue.

June 21, 2022 Virtual Community Meeting Presentation Slides

Multimodal Transportation Analysis (MTA) Handbook

On June 30, 2020, the City established Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) as the metric for assessing transportation-related environmental impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

In conjunction with this change, the City has established a Multimodal Transportation Analysis (MTA) Handbook that provides multimodal metrics for assessing transportation related adverse effects of public and private land development projects in the City.

Shoreline Boulevard Corridor Study

Shoreline Boulevard Corridor Study map On November 25, 2014, Mountain View City Council approved a conceptual design for integrated transit, bicycle and pedestrian facilities in the Shoreline Boulevard corridor from Downtown Mountain View and the Downtown Transit Center to the City's North Bayshore Area.

The conceptual design outlined in the 2014 Shoreline Boulevard Corridor Study employed a multimodal approach to achieving the City’s ambitious mode share goals, which had been evaluated in the 2013 Shoreline Transportation Study.

Key design features include the following:

A reversible transit lane and dedicated transit signals on Shoreline Boulevard
A new pedestrian/bicycle bridge over U.S. 101
Protected intersections and protected bikeway facilities
Shuttle operational changes
Recommendations for further analysis of Mountain View Transit Center and the Castro/Moffett/Central intersection

In recognition of the innovative and sustainable approach to this corridor, the City of Mountain View received an Award for Excellence in Transportation Planning from the Northern California chapter of the American Planning Association.

The City is now implementing Capital Projects to complete detailed design of this project, including reversible bus lanes and the pedestrian/bicycle bridge over US-101. As discussed above, the City is also undertaking the Transit Center Master Plan to further concepts at the Transit Center.

Other Recent Plans and Studies

Recent projects and studies are listed as follows.

Regional Agencies and Projects

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