Violated Board of Supervisors policies and order for pedestrian paths, and violated laws:

• Quotes of Policies and Orders of the Board of Supervisors (BOS): See the one-page version or the full version, with links to violations and sources.
• County Executive's shocking denial of "any violations", May 2007
• Expressway Plan, an official master plan of the County: Excerpts from the Pedestrian Element and instructions for downloading.
• Two remaining expressways with pedestrian prohibitions are San Tomas Expressway and Foothill Expressway. Click for photos, maps, policies, etc.

• As recently as 2007, County Roads was still opposing pedestrians on most expressway miles, including, San Tomas Expressway which has existing (unpaved) pedestrian paths much of the way. [See pedestrian-expressway maps by clicking this link, scrolling to agenda #9, and clicking the particular expressway.]
• Contrary to claims by County Roads, paths do not need to have concrete or asphalt to meet ADA requirements. Furthermore, the wide shoulder adjacent to the path -- already required by the Expressway Master Plan's Bicycle Element -- does comply with ADA and is the ADA alternative where a path is narrow. See the report by MTS with photo examples: ADA-compliant dirt and gravel paths vs. County Roads' false claim to avoid complying with the BOS' path order (2 MB pdf file). [For fine resolution printing, download 22 MB file.]
  County Roads' statement to the BOS, that ADA prohibits unpaved paths, is contradicted by FHWA's Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access.
  [Source: See the FHWA web page for this document, or just Chapter 5 from our website, or just the important highlighted quote on page 83.]
• Previous attack (2007): County Roads' false and misleading statements (underlined in red) in memo to Board of Supervisors is attempt to expand pedestrian prohibitions and continue violating BOS policies and orders. June 19, 2007. See the rebuttal by MTS.
• Hear County Roads' (Michael Murdter and Dan Collen) false and misleading statements to City Council of Santa Clara: Quicktime (audio/visual) excerpts, quotes, rebuttals, June 2006.
• Michael Murdter was forced to retract false statements and was ordered to remove pedestrians prohibited signs by the BOS. (historical, 2004).
• [County Roads' subversion of the Expressway Master Plan (historical, 2003 to early 2006).]
• [County Roads attempts new pedestrian bans in San Jose and other cities. (Sept.-Nov., 2006)]

• In 2005, the sidewalk was destroyed on Montague bridge crossing Guadalupe river. (See map on the expressway topics page. This sidewalk was used mostly by light rail patrons. This action was despite the fact that sidewalks have been approved in the transportation master plans since the early 1990s (VTP 2010, VTP 2020, and the 2003 Expressway Plan). This action also violated County policy from 1991 that requires sidewalks on all expressway crossings of rivers railroads and freeways. It also violated County policy that prohibits destruction of pedestrian facilities.
• Latest attack: Two miles of paths eliminated ! Early 2007. Photo series.
• Prompt and inexpensive solutions for six pedestrian issues having Board policy violations and safety violations, in Santa Clara (City).
• Montague Expressway: Appalling unsafe conditions for pedestrians, who have always been allowed, after County Roads destroyed their facilities.

• County staff's deceptive and hidden change in State law (SB 1233) to curtail right of bicyclists and pedestrians, Statewide. [SB 1233 contents, links page]
• Latest info: Jane Decker, County Deputy Executive, squashes BPAC's request. May, 2007. Web page also explains County's legislative process.

• VTA/County BPAC votes regarding pedestrians.
• To greatly and inexpensively improve pedestrian safety, the Modern Transit Society (MTS) requested VTA/County BPAC to recommend six points, giving priority to fixing unsafe roadway design failures of County Roads, rather than paving over existing pedestrian paths which adds negligibly to safety, but has been County Roads' usual practice.