This meeting of the Transportation and Environment Committee featured updates on the city's bike plan and trail network, the municipal fleet management program, and the San Jose Clean Energy programs roadmap. The committee accepted all three staff reports, with votes ranging from 4-0 to 5-0, and forwarded the clean energy roadmap to full council for May 19, 2026.
Present Ortiz. Present. Vice Chair Foley. Here. Chair Cohen, absent. You have a quorum. Great. Thank you. So we don't have we're not reviewing the work plan or consent calendar. We're gonna jump right into the reports. And the chair has kindly asked that we flip the order and that we move the bike plan 2025 to be the first presentation. So move. Second. All in favor. Aye. Thank you. Motion carries to move, make that adjustment. Good afternoon, Vice Mayor and members committee. John Rissell, Director of Transportation. We are here to give you the presentation on the city's bike plan and trail network. With me is Jessica Zenck, Deputy Director for Department of Transportation, Ramses Madoo, our Division Manager for Transportation. And soon to join us will be Liz Sewell, Parks Manager with Parks Recreation Neighborhood Services. So I'm going to turn it right over to Ramses and we can get started. All right. Good afternoon, committee. Ramses Medou, Division Manager of Planning Policy and Sustainability for DOT here. We've just texted Liz to note that our item just got uh pushed forward. So hopefully she's running over to the elevator. And uh luckily my portion of the presentation is first, so hopefully that will work out. So let's get into it. Um so we're here to talk about both uh the implementation of the bike plan um as well as what's going on with the trail network. This is our annual update. Um as you all know, uh we passed a new bike plan back in about 2020 um called bike plan 2025, uh, which really accelerated development and took on um uh the kind of the new mode for the city in terms of what a bike plan can do, right? This is really looking at all ages and all abilities, making sure that we're making uh the bike system safe and accessible uh for everybody and really driving that mode shift goal that's embedded in our uh general plan. Uh the new uh plan does look for a 550 mile network um uh that primarily consists of protected bikeways um and bike boulevards. The types of infrastructure that we're really looking for in the uh implementation of the plan are these four here. Um really focusing on creating physical barriers um uh where we can, particularly on larger streets with either higher volumes or faster speeds, um, whether that be uh with our first attempts with Quick Build, uh which has been a huge success in terms of getting a lot of infrastructure out there quickly. Uh thank you so much for all the support and getting that done, um, as well as some great new heartscapes. We're seeing more and more of that. And I'll talk about that a little bit later as we go forward. Um, and then a lot of the bike boulevards, and we're starting to implement that as well. And those are on the quieter streets where if we can calm traffic a little bit um and give some specific pointers to drivers and bicyclists, we can create a better environment. Um so what is our bike work uh network look like today and some of the accomplishments from a very busy year in 2025. Our existing network um is about 491 miles. Uh and I just want to point out uh this this has all been done in the last roughly 15, 18 years. Um this has been really an incredible piece of work uh by the city. Our new plan network, as we said, is 550 miles, 350 of those we are hoping to make uh enter protected bikeways and about a hundred and uh bike boulevards. The rest is the traditional uh stripe on the side of the road. 2025 was another huge year for the bike program. Uh we added uh about seven and a half miles of new bikeway, and importantly, uh that work of enhancing uh those uh bikeways that are currently uh not up to the plans expectations, um, are seeing that extra work, getting either those uh separations with pylons or through concrete and the like.