Council votes for four-lane Tasman
The Sunnyvale City Council voted April 30 to maintain the number of lanes on Tasman Drive in connection with the Santa Clara County Transportation Agency's proposed light-rail project.
Last year, when the light-rail proposal was adopted, many residents were concerned that trees and landscaping would be destroyed to accommodate light rail on Tasman Drive, which is four lanes wide. Avid bicyclists agreed, adding that without lane reduction, they would lose bicycle lanes as well.
Yet other residents thought that narrowing Tasman to two lanes would cause traffic congestion.
David Vossbrink, the city's community relations officer, said the decision was a tough call.
"You save trees and retain bicycle lanes and reduce or eliminate the need to move the right-of-way closer to coaches, but the tradeoff is traffic congestion," he said. "If you keep traffic flowing and accommodate light rail ... you will lose trees and bike lanes," he said.
Homestead wins curriculum grant
Homestead High School has received $345,000 from the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative to improve its curriculum and classroom instructions.
The grants are intended to help the schools raise their achievements to a higher level and to share their work with others.
Homestead plans to use its current funds for programs to encourage teachers to get into team teaching, to reinforce each other's work and to have students take more responsibility for their own learning, said school principal David R. Payne.
There IS such a thing as a cheap lunch
While people have to be 62 in order to receive special discounts at the Performing Arts Center in Sunnyvale's Community Center, 50-year-olds are still eligible for lunch at the Sunnyvale Senior Center. Sunnyvale City Council voted April 30 not to change the age at which people become eligible for different senior programs.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, May 8, 1996.
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