The whole point of this trail was to provide a family-friendly bike route from the Stanford campus and midtown Palo Alto to the Arastradero Preserve. If Stanford cannot deliver on that 10 year old promise, then this is a big scam.

To call the paved path along the traffic of Page Mill Road a "Trail" is being very Stanford. It provides a very good reason why San Mateo County rejected a similar asphalt path along Alpine Road. With all the land available to Stanford, a real trail away from the road traffic would have been very nice.

It is not correct to say that the whole point of this trail was to provide a family-friendly rout to Arastradero preserve. The point was to provide some access to Stanford open space to compensate for more building in the core campus areas. Too many groups got involved and tried to twist and turn the project in different directions until it turned into a worthless exercise.

A paved trail next to a four lane major road is more like a sidewalk than a trail, if you ask me. Horrible routing.