from the PA Weekly article...
> "...creates an Office of Transportation, a department that will debut with 13.5 positions and that plans to add two more in the coming months."

SERIOUSLY? 15 new city employees (with PERs) to point out the obvious with PowerPoint presentations ad nauseum?

INCREDIBLE. A new 'Department of BS' with additional paid bureaucrats to 'explore and comment on' what nearly every PA resident could convey in one sentence?

IRONIC. The PACC promotes office overdevelopment and then the CPA creates a new division to address its aftermath?

The City of Palo Alto must have an incredible war chest of available funding...from all of the developer fees and backroom dealing.

This is crazy. Throwing more money away by employing more people to implement stale ideas that are not going to work anyway is not going to help.

We need innovative ideas, not butts sitting on seats. We need payment apps to pay on our phones. We need electronic signs at garages. We need parking meters (that can be paid by phone). We need parking lots at highway offramps with dedicated shuttles to downtown and other business areas. We need better shuttle services to secondary schools. We need shuttles to Caltrain stations.

These sorts of things is where the money should be spent.

The 2 previous comments indicate that new employees are being hired. My understanding is that these are mostly existing employees who will be transferred from Planning to the new department.

Baloney,

It is not 15 new positions, it is 2. Please reread.

These positions could be easily paid for if the city charged for parking at a rate that reflects its value.

Am I mistaken that the money comes primarily from residents and from employees?

--higher fees for employee permits
--raised rates for gas and electricity
--the general fund
No money from developers or businesses?

More "programs" and staff changes. No *actual* traffic mitigation.

Please, no more wasteful spending on road diets, road furniture, bulb-outs, bollards to restrict traffic flow at a time when all the proposed and pkanned expansions and addition of MILLIONS if sq feet of office space will add tens if thousands of NEW commuters to our roads, our parking garages, etc,

When will businesses start paying their fair share??