Willow from Alma to Middlefield is one of the widest and safest roads in M.P. Willow Rd from Gilbert to 101 and Marsh Road from Bay Rd to Bayfront Park are extremely dangerous to bike.

Painting safe roads green is misleading, it does nothing to make biking less dangerous.

The speeding on that patch of Willow Rd is abominable. It'd be a great place for the cops to catch people.

John, I wouldn't say it does nothing to make it safer; I'm sure it increases driver awareness.

That said - you're right, the section between Middlefield and Alma is not the problem; it's the section between Facebook and the VA Hospital, particularly over the US-101 bridge.

@johngslater I agree that green bicycle lanes can give a false sense of safety, much as striped crossing can do for pedestrians. Bicyclists must not rely on a green line to protect them. They must still exercise caution and ride with preventing accidents in mind.

Green lanes make it easier for cars and bikes to see where they should be, which is a good thing. The stripe down the middle of the road doesn't keep cars from crossing into oncoming traffic, but I don't think anybody would argue that it does nothing to increase safety.

I agree with @Nate. The latest news reports say that the most common type of car vs bicycle crash is cars running into bicycles from behind (40% of all car vs bicycle collisions). Assuming that car drivers are usually not intentionally trying to murder bicyclists, the most common reason must be that the car driver did not see the bicyclist in front of them. A clear path that tells bicyclists where they are expected to go and tells car drivers where they should expect bicyclists to be has to increase safety. This won't stop all car vs bicycle crashes of course, but it is certainly much better than nothing.

I also agree with the comments that this wide, low-traffic road is not a place where highly visible bike lanes are especially useful, though maybe this is mostly an experiment for the city's public works department before they deploy it in more interesting locations, like the rest of Willow Road.

Green bike lanes all along Willow from Facebook to Alma and then no undercrossing at Alma and Willow. Menlo Park needs to finish the job and get cyclists to the west side of Menlo Park.

Sad