The Santa Cruz Ave/Alameda de las Pulgas “Y” intersection design, both the current and the plan County is promoting, are plagued with serious safety issues: Creates an unsafe situation for residents to enter/exit Unsafe for pedestrians to cross due to angled crosswalks and crosswalks that are excessively long Significantly skewed intersection Blind […]
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The intersection at Palo Alto Way and Santa Cruz is a major crosswalk that connects to the Palo Alto Way bus stop and allows the various communities (Menlo Commons, Oak Hollow, University Park) to connect with each other, including those students accessing the school bus stop near Palo Alto Way. It has been a continual
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County recently removed a significant amount of parking on Alameda, near Harkins and Prospect. This is very problematic as the County design of the Alameda at this location is extremely dangerous, has longer crosswalk, strange – abnormal left turn lanes, medians inline with traffic lanes causing a need for cars to swerve, and all this on a geographic problematic area of Alameda that causes this short area of Alameda to be hidden by the hill and undulations until just seconds before a motorist can see.
While County had promised that there would be no significant loss of parking for the County Alameda/Santa Cruz improvement plans, they actually are proposing to remove 25+ parking spots. This added with the parking loss on Sharon Rd and the loss of parking in the business area around the Dutch Goose will be a problem.
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The Santa Cruz Ave/Alameda de las Pulgas “Y” intersection is one of the most dangerous intersections in San Mateo County. Issues of speeding traffic, red light running, danger to pedestrians and residents, and a road design that required 6,000 vehicles per day to change lanes in to a 105′ 3rd lane. That forcing of
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County, at the urging of our community, agreed to implement the temporary trial to test the impact of the several important safety improvements gained by proposed changes. By creating a temporary road configuration to test the key tenants of the proposed safety improvements, to address several of the very serious and dangerous intersection design
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Our section of Alameda, at its narrowest, has a width of 64′, curb to curb. Additionally, there are sidewalks and pathways that represent an additional 5′ to 10′ width. This 64′ road width provides ample room for parking on both sides, buffered bike lanes, a center left turn/merge lane, and a traffic lane each
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Pros/Cons points come from different places. Formally, various government agencies and experts have published pro/con points. These include the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the individual transportation departments in States and other countries. Additionally there are pros/cons that come up when local residents learn about and discuss the 4
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Our neighborhood and those neighborhoods in West Menlo Park along the Santa Cruz and Alameda de las Pulgas, between Sand Hill Road and Avy Avenue, have for decades been trying to get critical safety issues addressed by the County and City. Unfortunately, very little has been done. The Safety Initative then is an effort by
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