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TCLAV Accomplishments below:
07-16-2002
Trail Users fill the Pleasanton City Council meeting and make a statement for opening trails! Read the story.

07-31-2002
Pleasanton city council workshop with Park & Rec leads to the council expressing need and desire for trails in the community. Council expressed support and direction to make progress with the "trails master plan" quickly, as possible and delighted over the show of support at their last meeting instead of in the past only hearing from grumpy neighbors relating to trails projects.

10-11-2002
Pleasanton Parks and Recreation Commission following a 30-day review period, again accepted public comments, reviewed and considered proposed Trails Master Plan update along with a request from Parkside residents. Trail Users filled the Park & Recreation meeting including Jamie Perkins(East Bay Regional Park District) urging community benefits of trails. A unanimous 5- 0 vote was taken to forward recommendations to the City Council for the approval of 6 trail projects including, opening the entire South side Arroyo Mocho and Iron Horse immediately without paving. The Iron Horse is top priority for paving as funding becomes available. The formation of a permanent trails sub- committee to work with the commission on future projects.
12-20-2002
Livermore Plan Gets an Update

04-16-2002
City Council unanimously approves a Trails Masterplan update with six segments to be completed, including controversial Arroyo Mocho
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9-20-2002
Work moving forward on trails in Pleasanton
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1-2003
Six gates open to the public along the south side.

10-2003

Pleasanton Park & Rec Trails Ad Hoc Committee formed.

6-2004

Pleasanton City Council adds "implementation of the city’s trails master plan" to list of highest priorities for 2004.

10-2005

Pleasanton Park and Rec approves pilot program converting 9 city trail gates to EBRP 45" gate standard. Conversion will be completed by 03/06.

01-2007

Initially including no trails TCLAV advocacy lead to Oak Grove project in southeast hills providing Trails, Staging Area and access to open space.


 
View a tour of the Arroyo Mocho Trail.



Steven Fiala, trails specialist at East Bay Regional Park District, has said that Pleasanton has unique opportunities to take advantage of its arroyo system to create links to regional trails and its public facilities, including schools. "You'll have a really wonderful non-motorized circulation path and make Pleasanton a more livable community," says Fiala. He points to the Iron Horse Trail, with over a million user trips a year, as an alternative transportation success story. "In a 1997 study on the trail, we found that 36 percent were using it for transportation, whether going to school, jobs, visiting friends, parks or shopping," he said. He has his own personal success story, too. "Riding my bike in the morning at 7 a.m. from Walnut Creek to San Ramon, I found I was going faster than the freeway traffic," he said. "I was chugging along at 15 miles per hour and they were at a standstill."