Comments for “Palo Alto Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan (BPTP) Update (ARCHIVE)”
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This is a dangerous intersection for school kids. Should make this as an underpass or overpass for bikers. Short term solution is to employ a crossing guard to help kids cross during school rush hours.
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Near miss where bicyclist was almost run over when the light changes and they were still in the street. Also seen people driving too close to bicyclist because there is no bike lane.
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There is a slight turn where cars cannot see pedestrians and if the lights are all timed green the cars drive fast. Seen cars passing on yellow and driving over speed limit to meet the lights
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Cars parking on this corner at Wilton and Park bottleneck the street passing for both ways, also block view for both bikers and drivers. So dangerous.
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Lack of visibility due to trees in the corner. It is hard to see cars turning from Foothill into Arrastradero and to turn from Miranda into Foothill. Also cars take the corner at high speeds and there should be a no right turn on red from Foothill into Arrastradero coming from Los Altos to avoid cars taking the corner fast and hitting pedestrians or bicyclists. There has been too many near hits over the years.
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Should probably put some sort of bike crossing here. Or better visibility of cross walk. Many kids bike from Duveneck and Greene and this intersection see cars not always stopping.
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One time as I was driving on the first lane on Alma, a driver coming from Homer tried to make a left turn onto Alma but almost hit me!!! That was a close call. Would’ve hit me if I hadn’t hit the break so hard. Driver saw two cars making a right turn from Alma to Homer and thought there was no traffic on Alma. Maybe we can take down some parking space on Elma to avoid parked cars blocking the view.
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Students biking on this smaller frontage road don’t stop at Cowper, and cards don’t have a hard stop at the frontage road. I personally and have seen many near miss collisions between bikers and cars.
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Near miss, pedestrian in crosswalk almost hit by car who went through intersection not paying attention
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My son and his friend were hit by a car when biking across El Camino. The car in the car lane could not see them crossing. The police were called to the scene for inuiries and I reached out to the city about getting a crossing guard at the far ends of El Camino during peak school bike commute times.
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Pedestrian (runner) hit by car while in the crosswalk in December 2022, leading to life-altering injuries.
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Drivers are doing uturns after dropping off passengers/ children for school (observed multiple times every weekday morning but it's likely happening at other times too). It's happening at a part of the road where there is a double yellow line, is close to a junction so cars or bikes will suddenly encounter the obstruction after turning onto cowper, where cars are blocking the use of the bike lane and often when bike users (generally children) are on the road.
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My kid almost got hit by a northbound car when it ran a red light.
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Child biking back from school
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One child got hit by a car here while crossing the street as a pedestrian on a green light. The glare from the sun and shiny wet streets caused the driver not to see him. Had a serious injury and skull laceration
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Paint a walkway along the T&C sidewalk at the parking lot exit so that everyone can plainly see where pedestrians should walk and where exiting cars at the red light should move forward to. This will allow more cars into the line and improve the backups in the T&C lot. Right now everyone thinks the visual surface transition from asphalt to bricks is the crosswalk even though there are curbs there and no pedestrian can, or should, walk across the intersection there. The real sidewalk is further forward people.
Also there should not be a right turn only lane at the exit, this less used direction causes too much backup in the parking lot waiting for one lane.
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Coordinate the timing of this light from T&C parking lot with the light at El Camino to move traffic through.
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Do not ruin this major intersection too by adding more bike crossing infrastructure. Keep the ability to move car traffic through. Bikes can cross fine as is using crosswalks with common sense.
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Too many lighted crosswalks too close together in this stretch of El Camino. This is a main car thoroughfare, pedestrians should walk to a crosswalk, there should not be one every 2 streets stopping traffic on top of all the lights.
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The intersection of Middlefield Rd at Oregon Expy in all directions at every corner: This intersection is super dangerous for bikers and pedestrians, particularly Greene students headed to and from school. There have already been a few accidents and near misses by commuters, including one yesterday. There is no signage, no pedestrian and bike lanes or lights. It would be great to see a crossing guard or even better for there to be a pedestrian bike bridge going over Oregon Expy.
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Please trim the plants on the southeast side of Charleston. Vision is greatly obscured when trying to turn right onto Charleston from Louis.
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Please consider making this crosswalk across Channing Ave. at Heather Ln. a raised crosswalk. This will help keep this intersection safer by forcing people to slow down a bit. This stop sign is often ignored, which creates a potential safety risk for children crossing for Duveneck Elementary School. There is a crossing guard down at Alester, but there is not one here, so any small improvements to slow people down will help.
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The sidewalk here is extremely crowded and dangerous in the mornings before Escondido School starts, with bikes (including widebody cargo bikes that take up the entire sidewalk), scooters, and pedestrians rushing to and from the Escondido gate. Pedestrians frequently have to veer off the paved sidewalk to accommodate bikes. Consider widening the sidewalk (currently there is a dirt path alongside the sidewalk) and clearly dividing it into two lanes.
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Bikers and drivers often ignore stop sign here by the elementary school.
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Traffic back-up onto El Camino Real and cars not stopping to look for pedestrians on the sidewalk as they exit the drive-thru
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