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Update: Ravenswood Ave. crossing in Menlo Park: Median barriers to stay

Original post made on Mar 3, 2016

After a 35-year-old woman died when a bullet train struck her SUV at the Ravenswood Avenue railroad crossing in Menlo Park in February 2015, the city hosted a series of community meetings to see how to improve safety at the complicated stretch near the Alma Street intersection and crosswalks and the Caltrain tracks.

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Posted by pedestrian
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Mar 3, 2016 at 9:36 am

Please create grade separations by elevating the train tracks and leaving Ravenswood level. Significantly elevating or depressing the road will make it much more difficult for pedestrians to walk between the Santa Cruz Ave business district and the Civic Center. Same goes for bicyclists.


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