This is a heavily used commuting route. Fixing and improving it is way cheaper than expanding Shoreline Blvd or other roads. I'm surprised the work is taking this long. January 2017 was a long time ago. Why wasn't this fixed last year?

Great to hear that this is happening. It's a great trail for commuting and weekend leisure. I wish it extended even FURTHER southwards into Cupertino!

I saw the signs posted recently on the trail. Great news!

On a related note, I rode on the Stevens Creek Trail underpass beneath 101. All of the lights are off. There was a "helpful" construction sign indicating that the lights were off. I didn't see any workers addressing the problem.

It seems like the bike trails are not top priority.

commuter: I agree that the trail is much cheaper than Shoreline. Given that they made a temporary repair at considerable cost, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they do care. There must have been some valid reason they couldn't do the permanent repair sooner.

Pleased with the news, of course. And Mountain View costs are trivial. But...

Can anyone imagine Highway 17 being shutdown for six month repair after a land-slide? So, it is possible to fix Stevens Creek Trail in a few days rather than six months.

Why not?

So glad MV realizes what a wonderful thing the trail is.
Open Open Open!

Now if we can get the Crystal Springs dam road opened again. That's been multiple YEARS.
The joys of needed multi-agency cooperation are the reasons why some things take so long...for those who didn't know.

If repairs progress similar to other repairs on trails such as Permanente Creek, expect it to take two to three times as long as predicted with long patches of no activity.

Reading some of these posts it looks as if Winnie the Pooh's donkey friend Eeyore is online today. Hahaha :)

Once they put in the "New" detour through the trees it was essentially fixed in my book. The short term detour around to Yuba was 100% usable, but kind of a joke with the way you had to come in/out on ECR.
It'll be nice to get things officially buttoned up though. Yah!

Yes, I think the city is going as fast as they can. This is controlled by the Water District, as I understand, and if you think back to year's rainy season, our trail is far from being like Highway 17 being closed. There were massive problems throughout the county. This was like some side street being closed, in a neighborhood with a workable alternate route. The Water District initially ranked this way lower, so kudos to the city for getting it bumped up the priority list. I know the work has to be timed around the rainy season, there's a threatened species in the creek, and even government has to get tons and tons of permits and environmental review, so my understanding is that this is moving really fast, considering.