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SMCTA: East Palo Alto Can’t Use Highway Money for Safe Crossing at Less Cost

By Andrew Boone | Jul 20, 2015 | 1 Comment

East Palo Alto is the latest city to be prohibited by the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (TA) from using highway funds to build a bike and pedestrian bridge across a highway. In this case, city planners actually found a way to cut costs on a planned ramp expansion at the Highway 101 interchange at University Avenue and use the […]

Looking to Curb Traffic, Palo Alto Rebuffs County’s Plans for Wider Roads

By Andrew Boone | Jul 6, 2015 | 3 Comments

Santa Clara County’s plans to widen expressways are out of step with cities like Palo Alto that are striving to curb traffic by reducing car commuting. Last week, Palo Alto City Council members balked at the county’s $98 million plan to expand Page Mill Road near Highway 280, which would only encourage more driving. If any expansion of the road should […]

San Mateo County Officials Insist on Failed Strategy of Widening Highway 101

By Andrew Boone | Jun 26, 2015 | 22 Comments

San Mateo County officials are moving forward with plans to widen Highway 101 in a futile attempt to pave their way out of traffic congestion. The City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG) has dismissed a more effective and less costly proposal to avoid highway expansion by converting two existing traffic lanes to high-occupancy toll lanes, also known as express lanes. “If […]

Redwood City’s Plan for Wider Roads Will Confound Its Bid to Cut Traffic

By Andrew Boone | Jun 18, 2015 | 1 Comment

As Redwood City plans to develop a more compact, walkable downtown, the city is ramping up efforts to encourage transit, bicycling, walking, and carpooling to avert the surge in car traffic that many residents fear would come as a result. At the same time, the city plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on […]

Google “Bike Vision” in Limbo After Mountain View Rejects Office Expansion

By Andrew Boone | Jun 15, 2015 | 37 Comments

Google’s “Bike Vision Plan” [PDF], which calls for a network of bike-friendly streets in and around its Mountain View campus, may not become a reality if the Mountain View City Council rejects the company’s plans to expand office space. On May 5, the council approved just one office building, at Landings Avenue, and held off on approval of the other three […]

Today: VTA Board Could Enshrine Road Expansions in Sales Tax Measure

By Andrew Boone | Jun 4, 2015 | 8 Comments

The Valley Transportation Authority Board of Directors today could enshrine road widenings in its 20-year transportation sales tax, proposed for the ballot in Santa Clara County in November 2016. The agenda for today’s 5:30 p.m. board meeting includes approval of the sales tax measure language, which includes goals [PDF] to “provide congestion relief” and “relieve roadway, highway, and expressway bottle […]

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