Comments for “Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan Update”
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Map error. If you click on the proposed bike boulevard line, you get information about the improvements to Bryant St, rather than the improvements to Guinda.
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Hooray for bike boulevards. My very favorite way to get around the city. Why not extend the Guinda and Kingsley boulevards to this point (Guinda @ Kingsley) so that they meet?
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1. Please do anything possible to facilitate bike and pedestrian use of Louis Road. Louis is used to access several schools (Palo Verde, Ohlone and others), parks (Seale, Ramos Park, and others), amenities (Eichler swim club, little libraries, etc.) and houses of worship. Making Louis attractive for biking and walking to access those destinations is essential.
2. Anything that can be done to calm high speed automobile traffic such as speed bumps, raised cross walks, and other street furniture would be most welcome on Lous Raceway, I mean Louis Road, especially the long straight drag strip between East Meadow and Greer.
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Some kind of treatment here. Cars don't yield right of way to pedestrians and cyclists. I've experienced this every day. Often times, a line of 5+ cars will drive by without stopping as I wait to cross.
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Signage on the part of this useful path seems to prohibit use by non-school-affiliated people during school hours. Could it be worked out with the school district to allow use to all?
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The stop sign at South Court and Redwood Circle makes following the bike route tedious—I tend to just use South Court if I don't need to go past Loma Verde.
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another north south bike street on cowper would make sense. there is a big gap between bryant and middlefield
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Strip a bike lane from Hanover to Hansen. The parking lot is ok, but it would be better if it was marked.
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Let's make Wilkie Way a proper bike blvd. The stop signs do not work in a cyclist's favor and cars tend to roll through, especially the Wilkie/Meadow intersection.
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We desperately need a bike/ped crossing in South Palo Alto. The developments in North Ventura will have no reasonable access to Midtown. Plus a protected crossing here will help mitigate the bike/ped safety issues during the rebuild of the rail crossings at East Meadow/Alma and Charleston/Alma.
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Exiting out of the Embarcadero Bike Path and Paly, it is difficult to turn left onto Churchill Ave towards Bryant. I, along with other commuters from Palo Alto station and Paly students end up crossing the tracks, waiting on the short sidewalk for the pedestrian signal, and then biking on the sidewalk/wrong way on the bike lane before crossing over to the right side of the street. The lights are timed such that westward traffic on Churchill goes first, usually giving enough time for cars to pass before eastward traffic on Churchill goes through. Nevertheless, still quite dangerous biking on the wrong side of the road. Alternative of going around towards Castilleja Ave is also dangerous as flashing lights are ignored as said in Feb 28 comment.
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Stanford bike lanes are spacious but when getting to Palo Alto (Palm to University Ave), the instructions are absent and safety is a concern--particularly considering the number of students/out of town people coming from Stanford. Should the cyclist continue straight? Should they detour through the CalTrain lot to the Homer bike lane near PAMF? Please improve integration and signage.
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In my opinion, cycling downtown is not sell supported. Signage stating "Bike Boulevard" does not clarify what drivers should do or expect nor what drivers should do or expect. The diagonal parking in the two blocks south of University on Bryant is hazardous, as cars cannot see bicycles coming, and bikes can not see that drivers are in cars preparing to backup. What are safe downtown practices? Dismount and walk a bike? Ride on sidewalk? Take the lane? The lanes get people to Downtown but we need a safe solution once we have arrived.
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Placing a bike lane on Middlefield is not advised - this stretch is very narrow and is one of the main routes to Willow for vehicles to and from highway 101. Instead, bicycles should take the much safer creek crossing on Bryant St to Palo Alto Ave and across the existing bike bridge. Or bicycles can cross the creek at Chaucer St.
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Continue bike lane or boulevard along the entire stretch of Oregon Avenue -- this is the path that bicycles currently take to go to Embarcadero Crossing over highway 101. Protected lane may not be necessary because there is little traffic on Oregon Ave in general.
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No need for a shared bike lane on Oregon Expressway. Bicycles currently use the parallel street Oregon Ave which is protected and has little traffic and goes directly to the overpass at Embarcadero Crossing.
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Remove parking on University within downtown. Make it bike lanes, parklets, or widen sidewalks more
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Due to the "walk bikes" signage for the sidewalk in the tunnel here, bikes heading into downtown from campus should be expected to use regular traffic lanes. However the road here is in terrible disrepair. Large cracks and potholes are dangerous for cyclists.
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It would be great to see better and safer bike infrastructure along University Avenue. This road is an essential part to navigating around the downtown and getting to other destinations in Palo Alto and the neighboring cities, but as of now it does not feel safe to be on a bike going down this street, despite Palo Alto being a supposedly bike-friendly community. Protected bike lanes would be a great place to start so that more sustainable ways of transport are better supported.
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Leading pedestrian interval would be nice here. While downtown technically starts a couple blocks down, most people walking into downtown from Menlo Park or EPA come this direction. Every intersection in downtown has LPI except Middlefield.
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I want to see raised cycle tracks on University. University is a direct route to EPA, Menlo Park, and Stanford. EPA's overcrossing project will continue to encourage more cyclists to ride on University. Raised cycle tracks offer the most protection and separation from vehicles.
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The map shows a bike lane on Page Mill, but almost all riders take this bypass. Should the bike lane shift to this safer and more suitable route?
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How will this impact street parking? About 20 of us routinely come to Mitchell Park from the East Bay to play pickleball and its difficult to find parking on the weekends and often need to park on this street.
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Cars are always parked in the Channing ave bike lanes making swerving into oncoming traffic more likely. Can we get these to be full time bike lanes or somehow reach a consensus on how to support parking and biking both? Can we perhaps reduce the traffic volumes on channing?
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This intersection could benefit from a protected crossing of some kind. The intresction is really wide here and its not clear where cyclists to wait.