bicycle maps and info
511.org: bay area bicycling maps
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition - many links to online and print maps
* South Bay & Monterey Bay (©1993 Krebs), $9 in stores or mail order
* Santa Clara Valley Bikeways Map (county), FREE (408) 321-2300
* Cupertino (©1995 Cupertino Chamber of Commerce), FREE (408) 252-7054
* Los Altos (©1987), $1 (650) 948-1491
* Milpitas (©1998), FREE (408) 942-2462
* Mountain View (©1997), FREE (650) 903-6311 (or email: public.works@ci.mtnview.ca.us)
* Palo Alto, (constantly updated), FREE (650) 329-2520
* Santa Clara (©2003), FREE (408) 615-3000
* Saratoga, (©1996 Saratoga Chamber of Commerce) (408) 867-0753
* Sunnyvale (©1994), FREE (408) 730-7522 (or email: samantha.swan@vta.org)
you can also download the santa clara valley bikeways map online:
Santa Clara Valley Bikeways Map
if you email them, they're really fast at getting you a copy of the map. it's a nice map, too. it tells you where there are bike lanes and bike boulevards and which streets are what various levels of safe.
sf bicycle and walk map available for download as well:
San Francisco Bicycle Program
ota also gave me a nice pamphlet from Menlo Park on Safe Bicycling in San Mateo County. you can request a copy by calling the Peninsula Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance at 650-588-8170 or emailing alliance@commute.org.