Comments for “Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan Update”
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Could this path around Greenmeadow be designated a bike route?
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This is an essential, existing crossing for connecting to Mountain View. Shorter delay will improve compliance with the signals. Consider a shorter cycle delay, or perhaps a split crossing phase so that pedestrians and bicyclists can cross half the street at a time, with less waiting.
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I thought the plan for this was a shared use path on the wide setback, in place of the sidewalk. This needs at least 8 foot widths for safe passing, and is dangerously narrow with no setback from Alma and poor driveway visibility between Ferne and San Antonio. This is an valuable, direct route when you are late for the train at San Antonio, or Gunn HS via Charleston.
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I love the plan to make University a bike Boulevard. Could go even further - make is a slow street (well, it already is), but prioritize walking and biking, including across the street anywhere, and expect motor vehicles to be slow, 15 mph, or even kept off it entirely, like our sister city Linkoping in Sweden. Linkoping has a three block wide section of their downtown with only pedestrian access. I guess the category is Share Use Path.
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Circulation on AA&A routes from the CalTrain station into downtown is poor now. Creative design and good wayfinding needed to improve access to University Ave. destinations. Do we expect bikes and peds to just use the sidewalks together?
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YES YES YES for the shared use path connecting to Caltrain lot from Homer underpass
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Every cross street between Forest and Everett should be a slow, bike-friendtly street across downtown. How else to get into the downtown core? All should be 20 mph speed limit, shared spaces (for access to vehicle parking, but also for walking, too. I guess this is Bike Boulevard, but really should be Woonerf.
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This is a bike plan, but the cars have to go somewhere, so I think Forest should be a bike boulevard. Give good access from Forest and Everett into downtown Palo Alto.
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Add a new signal at Cowper/Embarcadero to support a cross town route near Middlefield (but not on Middlefield from Cowper/Oregon all the way to Menlo Park. Could be like Bryant -right turn only except bikes. Could be at Webster instead. Put an AA&A bike route on Cowper or Webster and Guinda! will be a better, lower stress cross city route, and be close enough to serve the relatively separated destinations on Middlefield.
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Could Palo Alto Parks designate some of these lightly used fire roads for off road bicycle use? Would be a fantastic new resource.
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Redesign and mark this island to encourage round-about like travel for bicyclists making a left turn from Margarita to Park, or Park to Margarita! Or reroute bike route from Margarita to Fernando.
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This is outside the city of Palo Alto, but Palo Alto should advocate for a safe Pedestrian connection from Old Page Mill through the 280 interchange to Arastradero Road and Arastradero Preserve. Old Page Mill road is much flatter, more direct, and more pleasant than the other existing plans or path alignments along the expressway, or via Arastradero Road.
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This comment applies to all of Upper Page Mill Road. This is heavily used by motorists and cyclists on weekends, but uphill cyclists are slow. Many parts of the road have no good locations for a slow bicyclist to pull to the side and let motorized vehicles pass. Motorists become impatient, and may make dangerous passes. Mt. Diablo St. Park has added many bicycle turn-outs to allow periodic locations for cyclists to ride on the shoulder at let motorists pass. The BPTP should call this out for a study the next time Page Mill Road is repaved.
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Arastradero Road between Page Mill and Alpine is very popular with recreational cyclists. There is no shoulder, and cyclists are slow going uphill. A long term plan to create space for shoulders in at least the uphill direction (both ways) would improve safety and comfort.
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Going N. on California, there are lanes for left and right turning motor vehicles, and a lane for bicyclists going straight. WHEN WILL THIS BE REDESIGNED WITH BICYCLES GOING STRAIGHT IN THE MIDDLE!!! OR do a protected bicycle phase. Is the city waiting to see when the next terrible right-hook collision will occur? This does not need to wait, and should be redesigned in response to the cal ave changes.
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I'm concerned about bicycle safety at the intersection of Hanover Street and the Bol Park bike path. This is a high-traffic route for students commuting to Fletcher Middle School and Gunn High School, as well as VA Hospital employees.
Currently, cyclists traveling northbound on Hanover from Oregon Expressway face a dangerous situation when attempting to cross Hanover to access the Bol bike path. Cars exit the curve at high speeds, and there are no traffic controls (stop signs or speed reduction measures) to facilitate safe crossing. The nearest pedestrian crossing is further down the road, disconnected from the bike path.
As a result, many children resort to riding on the sidewalk on the opposite side of Hanover to avoid this hazardous crossing. Please consider adding appropriate safety measures at this intersection to create a safe connection between these two important cycling routes. -
I'm a parent at Escondido and have witnessed confusion about the shared used path here
* pedestrians sometimes wrongly assume that kids on bikes are not allowed on the path. Stanford Avenue around this pin is not very safe for very young kids, though, as they would have to merge into traffic around Hannover St to get to Escondido Elementary.
* Bicyclists sometimes go too fast on these muli-use paths, startling pedestriansWould it be an idea to place an informational sign at these roads describing the function of a multi-use path and encourage bicyclists to go slow and yield to pedestrians?
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New wide curbs installed. Should have included a curb protected bike lane as students now need to enter car shared roundabout to re-enter bike lane from Ross to E. Meadow
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The streetlight pole here blocks the sidewalk for wheelchair users.
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There are almost always vehicles park on El Camino Way in the bike lane where it is clearly signed NO PARKING (during the day). Please enforce this restriction. Vehicles parked here cause bicyclists to swerve into the traffic which often moves faster than it should in this area.
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The intersection of Margarita and Park is designed to stop cars from making a left turn from Margarita onto Park, but has the effect of sending bicycles that are going to make that turn on the wrong side of the road to do so - I have never observed any bicyclist start to make the right turn and then turn left into the cut-through that is supposed to allow through bicycle traffic on Park. This is a terrible design.
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The pavement quality along Park Blvd from Margarita north-west is terrible. Please repave this.
Also: Large vehicles permanently parked along Park Blvd, right in front of signs saying they are prohibited from 2AM-6AM make biking along here dangerous since you can't use the bike lane.
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When leaving Barron Park for destinations on the other side of El Camino it is most likely that people will continue up La Donna to Kendall and via Whitsell to Matadero rather than back-tracking on Barron to Josina.
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Converting both Embarcadero and Middlefield into a 3-lane street with a center-turn lane for two-way traffic could be a great way to free up space for a two-way protected bike lane, as well as slowing down traffic for pedestrian and bicycle safety.
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With how much room Charleston has with it's buffered bike lanes, converting this corridor into a protected bicycle lane should be fairly straight-forward, and would allow student commutes to Gunn high school and Fletcher Middle School respectively to be a lot safer. A cheap, temporary solution such as simply adding flexible delineators would be extremely useful and could test out the effectiveness of the project.