Comments for “Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan (BPTP) Update (ARCHIVE)”
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A stop sign for bikes halfway across the street? Have you ever seen the chaos that follows if someone actually obeys that sign?
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to make Campus more bike friendly and renewable, switch the pedestrian lights automatically to "go" when cars get a green light. Otherwise, bikes will just cut through the red lights and endanger themselves and others, because the cars don't anticipate the traffic if the pedestrian light is red.
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Suggestion for a traffic and pedestrian-friendly downtown PA: close University to car traffic and make is a pedestrian zone with one crossing in the middle. Re-route traffic into a counter-clockwise one-way loop around University Ave. This way traffic can be fast, as there is enough space to accommodate right and left turn lanes together with a 1-2 lanes going straight. All the streets turned into cul-de-sacs could accommodate additional parking and allow access to all University Ave shops within one block. Make University ave a center for retail and gastronomy like many European cities do very successfully.
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University Ave is by far the fasted way to commute from PA, EPA or some parts of Menlo Park to Stanford because the green wave of traffic lights is slow enough for a regular bike-commuter to catch it all the way from Middlefield onto campus and back in the evenings. However, University Ave has no bike paths in the downtown area. They disappear suddenly leaving Stanford Campus and as suddenly the other way right before crossing Middlefield. As there is no equally fast bike route, many cyclists (including myself) opt to bike on University where I regularly outpace car traffic and have to overtake them without the much-neeed safety of a bike lane. Please add a bike lane!
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Many middle and high school students travel to Gunn and Fletcher via this intersection. They have the choice of sometimes facing aggressive drivers if they cross via the bike lane (including sometimes honking because the driver wants to turn right on red from Hanover to Page Mill and the child on the bike is in their way) or when they walk their bike across the intersection they risk getting hit by drivers turning right from Page Mill onto Hanover. These are issues for traffic going in all directions. Cyclists need a protected way to cross. I would also like to see a crossing guard here during high student traffic hours.
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bike lane through the underpass is needed, or some other fast connection across el camino that is as fast as taking the underpass
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the pedestrian/bike traffic light switches so fast to red that it is not possible to get across the bridge on a green light and then be able to cross here on gree while the cars have a green light for quite a while longer. Thus, I ride on the street to not have to cross a red light or wait for an entire cycle.
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I wish the bike lane on Stanford from El Camino to Peter Coutts would be continuous and not stop in front of the school.
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Same concern as Bryant/Everett. I have tried for over 10 years to make this a 4 way stop. The city has fought me every step of the way.
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We need much better traffic enforcement of turn-only on weekday mornings here for Churchill traffic approaching Alma from the Emerson side. Vehicles disregard the turn-only signage and light, cross Alma, and then proceed onto this block of Churchill and endanger the many bikes that are using this road.
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I have tried for over 10 years to make this, and Everett/High, into a 4 way stop. I have been met with resistance from the city every step of the way.
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Need a pedestrian path/side walk parallel to Foothil Expressway connecting Page Mill Road to HIllview Ave.
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California Ave between ECR and the CalAve tunnel is a "safe route" and major thoroughfare for students commuting to Greene MS or Escondido ES, as well as for many others cyclists. Currently, the sandwich boards request cyclists to walk their bikes. But this is a completely unreasonable request that would significantly add commuting time during school and work commuting hours. While I can understand the request on Sundays when the Farmer's Market is open, or during the evenings when the street is bustling with restaurant goers and families, I have been yelled at by a pedestrian walking down the middle of the street at 7am on a weekday when no businesses are open. There are two wide sidewalks but he claimed to have felt unsafe even though my child and I gave him plenty of space as we rode past him. Please remove the sandwich boards and welcome cyclists back on Cal Ave.
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Pedestrians and bicyclists frequently nearly hit by drivers dropping off students in front of JLS. Drivers often take fast U-turns right through the bike lane, up the rolled curb and throw their cars in reverse to try to fit in a small parking space, without regard to safety for other students/commuters.
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In the stretch of E Meadow between Ramona and Waverley (inclusive of those intersections and in both directions of traffic), drivers routinely illegally swerve out to the bike lanes to pass drivers waiting to turn left. I have observed near misses with bicyclists in these situations.
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Cars on Hanover coming down the hill toward the Hanover/Hillview/Porter intersection are often traveling at speed and round out their left turns when turning onto Hillview. This poses a danger to cyclists waiting at the red light on Hillview, wanting to go to the Hub (or turn left onto Porter).
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Cars in the far-right "Miranda only" lane often do not turn right onto Miranda, and instead proceed through the intersection and turn right onto Foothill. Cyclists who turn right onto Foothill, are often almost hit from behind by cars who ignore the "Miranda only" directive. This is very dangerous for cyclists.
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The overgrown hedges block all visibility between the main trail and the connector trail, making this a completely blind intersection. Riding from the connector trail onto the main trail requires just hoping that nobody is coming along the main trail. And riders on the main trail can't even see that there is a connector tail until the last second, so if they don't know the connector exists, they don't know to keep extra space for riders that might pop out.
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This is an easy one! Continue the bike path through to Cesano Ct. that the City of Mountain View has built behind the apartments at 2700 W El Camino Real (which currently ends at a tall fence).
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Traveling through the underpass on the road is challenging in both directions. Motor vehicles often do not leave enough space between the lane and the curb and also change lanes erratically.
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Same issue as Hawthorne & Bryant - only stop on Hawthorne and car traffic is not very aware. This issue exists at many intersection in this area (Hawthorne & Emerson, Everett & High).
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Bicycles are forced onto narrow pedestrian sidewalks on Palm Drive going over El Camino and on the University Ave circle in front of the Caltrain station. Pedestrian ramps need to be widened to accommodate bicycles and pedestrians. Also, either the sidewalk needs to be widened, or some sort of a bikelane (strip, green, separated, etc.) could be added to improve flow.
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The university avenue pedestrian tunnel underneath the Caltrain station regularly smells of urine. Better sanitation is needed.
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Pedestrian signal light broken. Never switches in between stop and walk lights.
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Regular accidents seem to occur at the intersection of Lincoln and Hamilton.
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