Comments for “Countywide Local Roadway Safety Plan”
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Chestnut is an appealing bike route towards E101, to avoid the heavy traffic on Three Sisters. However, the lack of a bike lane causes bike/car conflicts, particularly on the northbound uphill side, and especially where the road narrows north of Sunset Ave., where bike/car speed discrepancies are large.
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This section of Sister Cities has no bike lane and instead there are only "sharrows". The speed differential here where you are biking up hill while two lanes of car traffic goes by at 40+ mph is significant. This creates a very dangerous section where cars either tailgate and swerve around a slow riding bike or worse, do not give a bicyclist a full lane and try to squeeze the bikes out.
This is the only section of Sister Cities Blvd that lacks a bike lane and is unavoidable for many bike commuters heading to the 101 business corridor.
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Edgewood road is heavily used by both cyclist and cars, there is a shoulder for bikes, but it is not marked as a bike lane (marking/green paint). The bike lane should be protected, especially at the top section where the road curves and cars veer into the shoulder regularly.
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Bike utilization of this route is still relatively low because it still feels unsafe. There have been great infrastructure to help bikes feel safer, but still more could be done. I'd look to the model of how the Palo Alto Caltrain station connects to the Stanford campus along Palm. Having a dedicated, physical, continuous bike path from the SSF Caltrain station to the end of Grand (Genentech and many biotech companies) would encourage much more biking and walking from Caltrain to the various companies along Grand.
I'd add that just having a painted bike lane is probably not good enough as this route can feel very scary for people that don't bike on roads very much. There are many very large trucks and there are parts along grand where there isn't a lot of space.
And because of the industrial traffic on this route, the bike lane is often full of debris/garbage/junk that can create hazadorous conditions (Again, particularly for inexperienced riders).
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ReplyTo the last point, I would call out that there are often nails, screws, and other sharp objects in the bike lane - making for costly repairs to inner tubes and tires if/when they get punctured.
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Old Bayshore Highway between Milbrae Ave and Broadway feels unsafe when biking due the nature of there not being a bike lane (unprotected or protected) and because Old Bayshore is a 4-lane road. I'd argue that traffic on this route is not very high, and bike lanes on both sides of the road would be possible (perhaps by removing the protected left turn lane).
This is very important as this is a critical route to get from points north, such as South San Francisco where there is a big hub of biotech companies, to points south on the peninsula, such as Foster City, Burlingame, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos, etc. There are not many great bike options in this area, and the freeway/Caltrain tracks make routes complicated.
It would be wonderful to see more dedicated bike infrastructure available in this stretch.
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Cars turning right to go towards Costco / 101S often do not look for pedestrians, particularly if they are on the side that is heading towards gateway. However, even crossing from the other direction cars will turn until the last possible second rather than wait and give pedestrians space.
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No crosswalk on the west side of this intersection. forces the many pedestrians that cross the intersection each day to walk out of their way to get back and forth. More and more people are riding the commuter buses into the area and then walk to their office. And now are crossing dangerous crosswalks to do so. This intersection is 6 lanes wide, with traffic traveling at 40 mph. This is a highway design in a dense employer campus.
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ReplyAgreed! Please consider a pedestrian overpass here. Or no turn on red sign perhaps. Anything to make what's basically a highway crossing safer.
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This intersection is the closest I have actually come to being hit by a car as drivers are turning onto 101N and not looking for pedestrians who are crossing towards or away from Dubuque. Again, this road is sloped such that if you are walking away from Dubuque towards 101 drivers may not be able to see you crossing. The times I have almost been hit though have actually been heading towards Dubuque and drivers just not looking right.
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This is a very dangerous part of alameda de las pulgas to ride. The shared bike line here is not appropriate due to cars going too quickly (well over posted 25MPH limit) down this slight downhill. There needs to be either speedbumbs, or a dedicated bike line (would need to remove street parking). There is a dedicated bike lane on Alameda south of Jefferson Ave, but it needs to be extended to this location as well.
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If you activate the crosswalk signal to cross Airport as cars are coming down Sister Cities, the signal does not activate when the light cycles around. You must press the signal again at another part of the light cycle (when cars are coming down airport or turning off of oyster point) for the walk sign to turn on. Drivers often run the light turning left off of oyster point because the light is arguably too short, making this a challenging intersection to cross. Drivers also illegally turn right on red onto Oyster Point, and the way airport is sloped, they may not see pedestrians walking.
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ReplyThe timing of this light for cars turning left from Oyster Point onto Airport is not adequate. If you are the third or fourth car to reach the line and the light is green, by the time you’ve turned the corner the light has already turned red. This needs a longer yellow or just recalibrated timing.
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Visibility as drivers come out of the cove is challenging due to the landscaping lining the median to the Gateway turnaround loop. This coupled with people rarely looking both ways before turning makes it dangerous to cross here because you may or may not be able to make eye contact with drivers before proceeding to cross.
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Pedestrian access from the east to the west side of 101 between Sister Cities Blvd and Oyster Point Blvd is treacherous. Sidewalk's are absent from sections of this crossing
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ReplyAgreed - there is also a large number of people illegally turning from Airport onto Oyster Point, making that crossing dangerous
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September 07 2023
I second this.
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