Comments for “Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan Update”
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When biking between Palo Alto and Mt View, I use the tunnel below San Antonio Rd. The traffic barriers at the intersection of San Antonio Ave and Briarwood Wy make it difficult to navigate.
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ReplySpecifically, the route is great if you are heading south into the tunnel, but The going is slow and confusing if you are heading north out of the tunnel and wanting to turn left into Briarwood. You must cross to the left side of the car lane and go up a short steep ramp onto the concrete island, then down another short steep ramp into the intersection. This is not clear to bicyclists or drivers.
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Mountain View built a ped-bike path from Del Medio Ave to the border in 2021, but Palo Alto has not connected to it because of private property.
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ReplyOpening this blocked connection would link the residents who live near Del Medio to Santa Rita Elementary School on Los Altos Avenue.
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Middlefield Road seems like the best in the city to make as bicycle safe as possible. It crosses the entire city north to south, connects with Menlo and Mt View, and is pretty central. If it can be done in Berlin, it can be done in Palo Alto.
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ReplyMiddlefield Road is an important thoroughfare for vehicles, buses and trucks. Bicycles should not be on this road.
Like Liked 15 timesI think the residential streets like Ross, Louis, Cowper & Bryant are better suited for bicycles. They run most of the span from San Antonio to downtown. Perhaps providing a better connection to those roads would suffice. Too many busses and trucks on Middlefield.
Like Liked 16 timesA road can be an important thoroughfare for both bicycles and motor vehicles, I am dismayed at the comments suggesting bikes don't belong on Middlefield road, especially considering how many schools, parks, businesses, and destinations are along this route.
Like Liked 7 timesCars and bicycles should be separated wherever possible. It makes no sense to funnel bikes down busy Middlefiled Road when there are so many quieter streets which run parallel.
Like Liked 13 timesMiddlefield has bike lanes in Atherton, Menlo Park, and Redwood City. Making a connected network of bike lanes is important for increasing modeshare. I shouldn't have to zig zag all over the neighborhood to get where I want to go. Having lanes here would give commuter cyclists and ebikes a direct route to their destinations.
Like Liked 11 timesThe comment about bike lanes in neighboring cities is crucial. Zoom out and look at the entirety of Middlefield Road. It has bike lanes in Mountain View all the way until it terminates at Central Expressway. It has bike lanes north of us through Menlo Park, Atherton, and Redwood City except for a gap in Fair Oaks. Prioritizing infrastructure that completes part of a larger network will pay larger dividends in mode shift.
The only two other roads that are continuous for that long of a stretch are El Camino Real, which is a county road not under the city's control, and Alma.
Like Liked 3 timesThe reason why the other towns use Middlefield Road as a bike route is because that's the only main road they have in that direction. Palo Alto already has Bryant St, Ross Rd, and Louis Road, so adding Middlefield Rd as yet another bike route would be redundant and frankly waste of resources.
Like Liked 7 timesMiddlefield has many advantages. My concern is what kind of separated bikeway is this going to be? Will it be two bike lanes on one side of the street? Will it have multiple stops and signals? Will there be curbs to cross, odd changes at intersections? Or will it be a seemless bike highway, with minimal stops, starts and obstacles? If the later, Hooray!!! If the former, I'll stick with Bryant St bike boulevard.
Like Liked 0 timesPlacing bike lanes on Middlefield would be disruptive to both cyclist and vehicles. Numerous intersections will stop cyclist (who will probably run the stop signs anyways). Bike lanes will force narrowing of the lanes for vehicles causing greater and greater traffic jams. It's a lose-lose proposition.
Like Liked 6 timesNo Bike lanes on middlefield. Create street parking. Homeowners on Middlefield do not want additional traffic. They want street parking, single lane, low traffic.
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Will the protected bike lane reduce the number of lanes of automotive traffic on Embarcadero?
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ReplyEmbarcadero is the main artery between Stanford and highway 101. Terrible idea to create a bike lane here and narrow the road.
Like Liked 7 timesi support the lane reduction here if needed and traffic slow down measures. embarcadero is supposed to be a city street even though it is arterial. Cars speed down here like it is a highway which it is not.
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needs an easier path to enter town and country from embarcardero from the underpass
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ReplyTown and country should be encouraged to work to develop the safest plan for bicycles within the shopping center. Bikes on roads within the Shopping Center are not optimal (cars backup and do not respect bicycles). Bikes on the sidewalks is difficult due to safety of pedestrians and restaurants. Improved bicycle flow would help safety and likely help free up some parking spaces.
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crossing from kingsley into the underpass is very scary due to cars coming past. consider ways to make this safer
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ReplyAgreed! So many bike commuters and students use this crosswalk and cars come flying (with no signals on) from Embarcadero -- they don't respect flashing lights or don't have time to react to them when branching off at this part of Embarcadero.
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Since one of the main complaints I hear is how we are disconnected from infrastructure in other cities, can we add an overlay of major infrastructure connections/infrastructure in MP and MV. For example the overcrossing of 101 in EPA is likely to be more utilized than the existing overcrossing in our own city. Can we show immediate connections, for example on Middlefield in MP? This might help us prioritize future improvements in our own city where we know we can complete connections.
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Cross south on Oregon over Middlefield is dangerous, especially on a bike going down Oregon Ave at speed--with the walk signal on--as cars turning right (from the expressway to Middlefield have little to no visibility until bikes are in the intersection. Also there is insufficient space for pedestrians and cyclists to share as they wait for the walk signal.
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this is a very difficult and dangerous transition for cyclists emerging from the from the underpass and trying to go NW on Embarcadero. They have their back to traffic and cars turning right on to Kingsley may not see them as they cross over to connect back to Embaradero.
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February 28 2025 Steve
- I agree on the four way stop. I live at Hawthorne and Bryant. I work at PAUSD. I cycle commute to work five days a week. This intersection, Bryant and Everett is on my "DANGER" list of intersections and is one of the biggest threats, to my safety, on my cycle commute.
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Bicycles need to start stopping at stop signs
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Not the problem. The problem is visibility of the cars zooming on Bryant. I got them to remove a parking space on both sides of Bryant years ago, and it helps, but it isn't sufficient.
Like Liked 1 timeMarch 08 2025 Scott McMahon
Please do not make this a 4 way stop.
Like Liked 0 timesThis is the bicycle boulevard. The lack of stops (for bikes) makes it almost a freeway (for bikes) from one end of town to the other. Cars have 101. Cyclists have only Bryant St. Please don't ruin our only bike throughway by adding stops all over the place.
March 09 2025
This is the end of the bicycle boulevard. It is a dangerous intersection. With your reasoning, why don't we eliminate all the stop signs on Bryant?? I am a bicyclist; I commute every day. Bryant has plenty of stop signs; it is not a bicycle freeway, especially since the intersections that *don't* have stop signs on Bryant are all very dangerous because the cars don't heed the 'cross traffic doesn't stop' signs when there's a bicycle. You should know that.
Like Liked 2 timesMarch 13 2025 Sara
Yes, PLEASE PLEASE make this a 4-way stop. I am terrified when my kids have to ride their bikes along Everett through this intersection, and as a driver I am terrified of hitting bikes or other cars. The visibility is terrible, and there is a stop light one street later at Lytton anyway where bikes will have to stop. The intersection is so dangerous, I've seen many near accidents and was in a minor collison myself. Please 4-way stop
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