Sounds like the voice is running out of stories to run or is needs to get out more into the community to find more human interest stories. Doesn't take much to figure out.... More traffic means more collisions. I would rather the paper focus on what the city is doing to improve the infrastructure in the area to address the amount of traffic to and from the city. Especially in the north bay shore area.

You know the community is in good shape when the local paper has nothing else to look into other that traffic data. Or this advisory committee is frustrated and using the paper to beat their drum. Either way, can we read more about what our community members are doing or what other improves are coming to our community?

Back to the Mercury News .....

Thanks

It should concern us all that the City - here its police chief - does not follow the law. Maybe the chief is getting back at the Voice for reporting the sexual harassment lawsuit which names him as an accomplice.

Well of course "more traffic means more collisions," but that only INCREASES the public's need to know what causes those collisions so all parties can be better informed about what is being done to ameliorate the situation.

This is not the first time Mt. View police have "interpreted" laws to their own views.

I definitely agree that mountain view police are not so innocent in terms of the law. They REGULARLY make up and interpret their own scripts and do not abide the laws. Even just simple traffic laws. I"m talking about crimes. Most interrogation techniques are indeed illegal, which HAS GOT TO STOP. I'm tired of my camera being grabbed from my hand and thrown on the ground!

Eh.. nothing will change until we realize the police work for us and our elected representatives start forcing the changes we'd like to see.

The cops are not some autonomous group answering only to themselves.

This is an important topic for local journalism.

I've had a similar bad experience with MVPD. They don't like to give Public Records Act data that shows trends that suggest they are not policing effectively. The police chief got involved with my request and it was all smoke and mirrors from there. First he implied that there were numerous instances of the types of traffic violations I was requesting which made the policing of such violations such a challenge. When I finally got my Public Records Act request, there were only a handful of traffic violations recorded. I've come to conclude over time that MVPD is not well-managed and in tune with the spirit of Silicon Valley whereby information can help society and not hurt it.

Maybe we should be reporting these bicycle and pedestrian incidents in a different/additional place? I often hear that no report is filed because there was no crime or offense, but those same incidents could be important data points to identify problem areas or bad behaviors.

Perhaps the BPAC could suggest an alternate way of reporting? At the recent Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) Bicycle Summit, it was the county health department who reported on this sort of data, so they might be candidates? Or SVBC themselves might be able to host this? Just seems that it might be easier to work around the police in this case.