Contentious road project heads toward final phase

OK, the bicycle advocates win. I get that. People lose and the activists win. But what is the city going to do about all the people honking their horns, like they do now? If you eliminate lanes and create gridlock, how do you stop people from honking?

People are the first and foremost consideration in this project. The final components of this longstanding, thoroughly vetted project will make my neighborhood so much more safe for all - people walking, biking & driving. I live one block off this corridor and my entire family uses it all the time in a bunch of different ways. Absolutely the safety of everyone deserves our enthusiastic support.

The road ragers who blame school children in crosswalks and bike lanes for causing road rage really need to look in the mirror first. Obey the speed limit and pay attention to the road and we can all get to work or school safely.

Everybody needs a safe and functional roadway.

Several bike safety advocates mentioned the increase in residential and business population as the reason the traffic is infuriatingly slow in peak hours, and, unfortunately for motorists, they chose to to disregard that fact in favor of the bike safety issues. The Planning and Transportation Commission apparently agreed, and produced no suggestions that would improve matters for motorists.

Nevertheless:

It's wrong to see this simply as a "win" for student and bike safety, or to claim, as one commenter does, that this is "safe" and thus good for everyone. The price of that "win" is more pollution, and inefficiency for everyone else...

Community well-being is the heart of this issue, and perhaps folks who are proponents of bike safety and a liveable community will help support a moratorium on the construction of new buildings-- including in the Stanford Research Park -- since existing and projected job and population growth adversely affects all of us --including schools and students--on this corridor and throughout the city.
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Gennady, staff claimed the traffic "had not changed" but did not provide data.
At rush hour, is it "level F" ?
If so, there is literally "nowhere to go." (Since there is no "level G")
Might this be a well-known and commonly used trick?
My friend --a former transportation engineer --says it is.

ALL CARS AND TRUCKS should be completely BANNED in Palo Alt

This is the trend, and the goal.

ALL movement of people and goods and wayfinding can easily be carried
about in electric vehicles, driven by city employees,

biking, walking will be GREAT!

AIR CLEARER!

SAFER!

Many alternatives were studied. This road serves eleven public and private elementary, middle and high schools. It also provides connections to after-school destinations, including Mitchell Park Library & Community Center, Cubberley Community Center, the Campus for Jewish Life and Elks Club, multiple playing fields and parks, as well as multiple preschools, affordable housing facilities, two senior residence facilities, thousands of other residences, Abilities United rehabilitative programs, and a shopping center. Charleston-Arastradero connects community residents of all ages and abilities who walk, bike, ride transit, and drive to all of these important destinations. Safety is a key concern. I support the project.

Always amusing when the people who drive everywhere everyday get all hot under the collar claiming that the congestion they don't like is caused by people who choose to use footpower! Friends, you're not stuck in traffic, you ARE traffic. Maybe you must drive -- but be grateful to those who make a different choice whenever they can.

Think it through: each student or research park commuter who gets where they're going by two wheels rather than 4 during the peak morning rush means one less car aggravating the motor vehicle back up. It takes 10 cyclists to fill the space that one medium passenger vehicle takes up when stationary, more than twice that when moving at 25 mph. So drivers, you should be thanking the cyclists for not driving at peak periods, each one could have been in a car like you, one less car times about 1000 means a whole lot less congestion impacting you!

And Cheryl, if your neighbor took 20 minutes to "drive 2.2 miles on the corridor from the Page Mill and Arastradero intersection to the Gunn High traffic light", that has very little to do with the Charleston/Arastradero project, which only extends from Fabian to the Gunn driveway.