Comments for “Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan (BPTP) Update (ARCHIVE)”
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Even though the entrance to Georgia says, "Residents Only", parents will still turn in to drop off their children. This is the only car exit path for Briones drop off. It is also the safe route for children biking into campus. With unauthorized cars entering and then making U turns, it is absolute chaos and the bikers and walkers are dodging cars from every direction.
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There is a crosswalk with lights here in front of the Fire Station. However, cars frequently don't stop. When there are power outages, it gets so bad that Fletcher PTA will go out on power outage days to help stop traffic for Fletcher/Briones students.
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Shouldn't this just be a roundabout?
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The bike safety education concerns pointed out in the other comment near here wouldn't be a problem if people in cars didn't run into the kids. If this were a bikes-only road, there wouldn't be any safety problems.
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This stretch of Meadow is dangerous, but the solution isn't educating kids on how to bike safer, it is making car drivers drive safely. The onus should not be on the children to not get killed. The onus should be on the driver to not kill. The only way to make this stick, however, is to make people want to go slower. This can be accomplished by narrowing the traffic lanes, reducing visibility, forcing the traffic to meander (with planters, bollards, etc). You can't argue with physics, so let's use physical solutions.
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DON'T ADD STOP SIGNS! This is not how roundabouts work! Everybody should yield entering the roundabout, then have right of way while still in the roundabout. To make this roundabout work better
* remove extra signs!
* reduce visibility
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The "Wrong Way Bikes" sign here is absolutely infuriating. My kids and I routinely ignore it because there is NO ALTERNATIVE! If you're leaving the parking lot on the south side of Middlefield and are heading toward Charleston, you put your life in the hands of the idiots on the road if you try to obey the rules. The wrong way on the sidewalk is the only safe option.
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Cars blow through this stop sign all the time. It is especially bad at school drop-off time.
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The sidewalks here are too narrow! There isn't enough room for a parent and child to walk side-by-side along either side of Amarillo north of Ohlone Elementary School. The other day I heard a father saying to his two sons, "Come on, single file!" so that he could get them past a bush on one side, a parked car on the other, and a pedestrian coming toward them.
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During school drop-off and pick-up, this intersection is nuts. I have seen several near collisions and one actual collision between a car and bicyclist.
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The pavement here is terrible for biking.
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The bike racks here are no good. They should be replaced with better ones.
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Bike racks here would be nice
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We need a 4 way stop sign here and a crosswalk for kids to get across Stanford Ave, particularly with how busy this street is in the morning during school dropoff.
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We need a 4 way stop sign here and a crosswalk for kids to get across Stanford Ave, particularly with how busy this street is in the morning during school dropoff.
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A 4 way stop here would also help slow traffic speeding down Stanford as there isn’t a stop from Yale to Escondido.
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We need a 4 way stop sign here and a crosswalk for kids to get across Stanford Ave particularly when parents are racing to drop off kids in cars and a Margherite bus turns right here
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Underpass needs lights on in the morning also (it is dark when kids bike to Paly in the AM)
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It would be nice if this intersection were set up like the one on California and Middlefield with the white bollards and a biking path to JLS- maybe even as part of the park to separate the middle schoolers from the elementary school walkers.
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Make the crosswalk at Walgreens have a flashing floor bumps ALONG with the light- this red light is impossible to see when the sun is shining in the winter time after rain.
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Too many people biking on the sidewalk on university avenue.
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University avenue is full of life. It would be good to widen the sidewalks or even make the whole street pedestrianized or not a through street.
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Bring back the Cal Ave bike route.
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Some type of traffic barrier is needed where solid white lines are to stop vehicles from making last-minute illegal lane changes into the bike-pedestrian crosswalk that leads to the underpass. The barriers that were there no longer exist.
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Accessing the Northbound platform of the Caltrain station from Homer Ave requires merging with high speed traffic or riding through the parking lot. It would be great if the parking lot was made smaller and a dedicated bidrectional bike lane was added to allow connectivity to and from Homer Ave's bidirectional bike path.
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