Comments for “Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan (BPTP) Update (ARCHIVE)”
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Love the new round-about at the five way intersection (Hamilton/Southwood/Center)--it's forcing drivers to stop and think before ploughing through. It seems much safer now.
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I live at this intersection and can confidently say that at least one of three cars does not stop at the intersection of Pitman and Center. This is really dangerous because it is an intersection near a park with many children.
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Multiple accidents on this intersection. Parked cars on Middlefield limit visibility for cars on Lincoln trying to cross safely. Cars on Middlefield do NOT respect school speed limit.
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There is no bike lane on middlefield and many Greene students bike to midtown on a daily basis and have to use the sidewalks. Better bike lanes/spacing should be provided for safer bike routes.
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Stop all car traffic for pedestrian and cyclists on all major intersections with designated "safe routes to school".
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At a minimum - the light here should stop all traffic for crossing pedestrians/cyclists. A middle school boy died at this intersection when crossing the street. We do not need that to happen again. The city has been warned.
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The bike lane going east disappears in the neighborhood and the traffic safety person is on the wrong side of the road for elementary kids going home from school because some use the side walk and some use the street - there isn't a clear designated path for them to follow and so some are biking across and then crossing midstreet while cars are driving straight across on the green light. el Camino should have some lights that pause all traffic and allow pedestrians and bikers - at California ave, Stanford and Churchill.
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We need to eliminate parking on Stanford avenue between El Camino and Bowdoin street and enlarge the bike paths with dividers in both directions because this is a thoroughfare for a neighborhood to go to high school, middle school and other neighborhoods to get to elementary. Recreational cyclists also choose Stanford avenue because it is a less busy street than Page Mill to get up to the Portola Valley/Hills bicycle rides.
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I live in Southgate. This is a safe route to school and yet cross traffic on Churchill does not need to stop for bikers unless they hit the button - which they don't do and leaving Southgate in the morning is very difficult with cross traffic and bikers. Churchill could be 1 way or this could be a signal timed with the railroad light so that the buses and cars exiting paly or southgate also get a chance to turn onto churchill without having to accelerate quickly into traffic in an area congested with bikes and pedestrians.
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When the high schoolers leave Paly, they cross the road on the north side and then cross through the traffic at Churchill to get to the bike lane on the south side of the road. Churchill might function better as a one way road so there is adequare space for the extensive bike traffic multiple times a day.
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It's dangerous to NOT have a stop sign at Churchill and Bryant, given the number of high school drivers who could collide with cyclists and pedestrians here. Cars have to slowly, slowly enter the intersection to get a good view, and not all cars do so.
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Many drivers roll through this stop sign when on Newell. Add a blinking crosswalk?
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The Churchill parking entrance is SO dangerous, with pedestrians, bicyclists, and (new) drivers. Would love Paly to restripe the parking lot to create larger, diagonal spaces. Plus a stop sign or light at Churchill & Mariposa.
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I've almost been run over twice at this busy intersection by drivers on University blowing through a red light. Often, even after the walk light is on for Bryant Street. This is supposed to be a bike boulevard, for heaven's sake. My proposed solution? Turn University Ave back to being a pedestrian and bicycle only road, like it was in the pandemic. It's an unpopular opinion, but it was so nice then... And Hamilton and Lytton could be made one way in different directions to control traffic flow.
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This intersection should have an additional traffic lights that allow right turn only when green. This would provide so much more safety for our kids who go and come from school.
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Great new bike lane through the back of Cubberley near the track. However, still some sharp speed bumps that need flattening. They can knock things out of my bike basket.
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Flatten sharp bumps along this path. If it can be widened and blind turns cleared, even better.
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This intersection only has a crosswalk on 2 of the 4 crossings-- leading to a school and community center and shopping center. This needs to be updated with crosswalks and ped crossing signs all 4 directions.
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El Camino street crossing is dangerous wtih loose gravel and big pot holes. Maybel needs Bike Blvd upgrade (it is marked in bike plan as a Bike Blvd) but doesn't have share the road signage, bike lane, or share the road signs. Hundreds of kids ride this road daily for school commute so it nees attention.
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Crossing El Camino is difficult by bike with loose gravel and pot holes. El Camino crossings needs regular street sweeping and smoother road.
At Los Robles
At Maybel
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Heading away from Mitchell Park and towards Gunn, drivers frequently pass other drivers by going into the bike lane. This is very unsafe and likely cause of a recent major accident. There are lots of bikers heading to Gunn and coming home from JLS and the bike lanes are regularly crossed by speeding drivers impatient to get around another driver.
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The "no left turn" out of Greene MS onto N Cal Ave during drop off and pickup hours is hard to respect. Wouldn't a 3-way stop alleviate gridlock and help crossing guards?
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This is a very dangerous, tight intersection, where safety of schoolchildren coming from/going to Nixon Elementary and other pedestrians (numerous on the weekends because of Dish) has been overlooked for too long. Threats posed: cars accelerating through orange/red light, especially coming off Junipero Serra; cars turning right on a red onto Stanford ave. from Raimundo (drivers looking left, not at pedestrians waiting to cross); cars turning left onto Stanford ave from Raimundo and into crossing pedestrians.
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I was biking on Univ Ave when someone threw open their door without looking. Univ Ave should be a Sharrow where bikes are allowed to occupy middle of the lane. Traffic doesn't move faster than 15 mph anyway.
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Bike Racks needed on this side of the shopping center by Peets. The bike racks by Piazzas are great but they are often full.
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