Comments for “Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan (BPTP) Update (ARCHIVE)”
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The stretch of University/Palm Dr. from Homer to Alma under the train station and over El Camino is extremely dangerous for bikes. There are no protected bike lanes and no way to travel through this area without having to share lanes with unsafe traffic and low visibility, riding on sidewalks, or dismounting and walking through the train station. The bikes going in and out of the train station ramps create extra hazard, as most bikers use the sidewalks on the bridge over El Camino and the underpass under the train station.
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Left turn to Charleston Rd is challenging. Tremendous risk to both drivers and cyclists who want to cross the street. Suggest adding “keep clear” markings.
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Who is responsible for maintaining the bushes that grow into the bike lane? I see many kids swerving so they don’t get branches in their face but this pushes them into car traffic lane. These should be carefully maintained.
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For students biking to JLS coming from East of Middlefield (& for the sake of the community), there is a very unexpected stop light outside of Walgreens on Middlefield that catches cars who have just crossed Oregon/Middlefield stop light and that visibility is virtually 100% *blocked* by the sun’s glare (going Southbound) in the morning commute hours during fall & winter months. Living nearby, I’ve driven my kids to JLS hundreds of times, but cannot even see the stop light in the morning sun glare, let alone the color of the light (Green? Red?), and so I inch forward through the stop light. However, most cars don’t live here and are completely unaware and blow through stop lights at this location (as there are no cross streets to signify a need for a stoplight to exist.) I have known a few PAUSD kids and community neighbors who are crossing Middlefield at this location on a “walk” signal, only to be hit by cars blowing through a red light. My suggestion: please implement blinking lights or sounds to alert cars of the stoplight, especially those morning commute hours in which I cannot even see that the stop light itself. Thank you!
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This isn't a standard roundabout traffic circle. It's some weird combination of a stop on one road and a roundabout without any yield markings. It is totally cofusing for drivers because it's not clear who has right of way on Yale St and there's no crosswalk for pedestrians. Please turn this into a standard roundabout with no stop sign and proper entry markings to the roundabout.
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This isn't a standard roundabout traffic circle. It's some weird combination of a stop on one road and a roundabout without any yield markings. It is totally cofusing for drivers because it's not clear who has right of way on Colage Ave and there's no crosswalk for pedestrians. Please turn this into a standard roundabout (no stop sign) and proper entry markings to the roundabout.
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Dangerous hole in the sidewalk where manhole cover has been broken. There are orange cones signaling it, but still poses risks for little kids and obstruct the sidewalk passage
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This corner is so tight it is prone to accidents and collisions. The mirror is not helpful enough for visibility. Could the path be modified to round out the corner more so bikes are more able to stay within their lane as they come around the blind corner?
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This intersection is dangerous to pedestrians and bicyclists during morning and evening commute hours. Students use this light to cross Middlefield to bike to Paly and El Carmelo. Green Middle School students bike down the Middlefield sidewalk at this stretch to get to and from school. Drivers are racing down Middlefield to get to Oregon Expressway/101 and driving south to drop off students at Keys School. Drivers race down Colorado to get to Alma.
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the bike lane on Stanford Avenue is used extensively by elementary school children heading to Escondido elementary. However it is very narrow and cars pass by the students at uncomfortably close quarters. There is also a bike lane on the other side of the street. Could these bike lanes be merged on one opf tjhe street and be protected by a barrier from the road traffic? That would widen the path and provide greater protection. the current plan is dangerous, especially with new bicylists in the Kinder - early grades on the streets, encouraged to bike to school by the city and the school. At preset many children instead bike on the sidewalk, creating issues for pedestrians, but possibly the bike path could be relocated to alongside the sidewalk as another option. There appears to be space enough to allow this.
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JLS sports fields are a destination after school and on weekends.
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Embarcadero is a direct rout for many going to Paly, T&C, or Stanford. Can it be made a safe route for cyclists - Either in the street, or with improvements to make cyclists on the sidewalk safer at intersections? It seems like cyclists in narrow sidewalks is the current plan.
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We've made 90% of Charleston and Arastradero safer for bikes - AWESOME... but leaving this intersection as the remaining very dangerous other 10%
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Weekday afternoons parents parking and driving illegally dropping and picking up their kids between 4-6.
Parking on corners makes it unsafe for riders and walker and residents trying to get out of their neighborhood.
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This can be a confusing intersection to drivers and bikers.
first of all the cars go first not the pedestrians which throws people off.
second on bikes are we supposed to wait for the cross walk and crossing guard or are we supposed to sit on the bike graphic and go on the green light.
its a little confusing
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There is a fence poll sticking out that if some one hits it will hurt and do some damage.
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This is the most dangerous intersection of my entire bike commute with car always going into the bike lane. I am almost hit at least once a week here.
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Cars constantly drive into the bike lane on E Charleston and Mumford headed away from Central and towards Middlefield. And not just a little bit but OFTEN and by a lot.
The problem is when you are in a car the median barrier that was put up optically from a cars POV makes a car drift into the bike lane.
As I see it there are TWO solutions :
1. get rid of that median there. ( this seems costly and time consuming )
or
2. repaint the bike lane to give cars more room.IF SOMETHING DOES NOT HAPPEN SOMEONE ON A BIKE WILL BE HIT THERE.
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Poor visibility with a lot of bikers entering from Kingsley Ave and overgrown planting as you approach Embarcadero. Also, speeding cars often do not expect bikers who use crosswalk to continue on Embarcadero and into the underpass.
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There needs to be a plan, any safe plan, for cyclists who use the Middlefield corridor, that is better than "let them use the sidewalk" or "Sure take your chances in that traffic.
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Seasonal access to the 101 underpass at Matadero should be opened to all, not just to joggers, and dog walkers who are able to climb over a fence. Access through the utility driveway off Colorado or from Greer Rd. should be easy. Would open up the Baylands to Midtown.
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I know this is in Los Altos Hills, and jurisdiction of the county and CalTrans, but a safe, low stress connection walking/biking connection from the Stanford Trail at Foothill Expy via Old Page Mill to Page Mill and Arastradero would greatly improve walking and biking access to Arastradero Preserve. (The county proposed sidepath on the S. side of Page Mill Expressway to Deer Creek Rd will not serve this need, and is inferior because of the hill it must go over, and its proximity to Page Mill Expressway.
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Arastradero Preserve is a great destination for trail biking and walking.
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Los Altos bike lanes disappear at the city line. Better to have bike lanes, or an off street path, from the city limits to Arastradero Preserve.
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Wider shoulder or bike lane in the uphill direction.
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