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Introduced Oak Grove bike lane plans may border on insanity
Original post made by whatever, Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park, on Jul 27, 2016
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Posted by parent
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 28, 2016 at 9:25 am
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 28, 2016 at 9:25 am
This new bicycle route will make bicycling to school tremendously more safe. Thank you Menlo Park!
We would gladly give up a few free parking spaces to make our children safer in this city.
Yes, bike lanes would not be necessary if bicycles rode in the middle of the street like cars and car drivers would not drive distracted, but this is America.
Posted by Dana Hendrickson
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 31, 2016 at 12:21 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 31, 2016 at 12:21 pm
An Oak Grove bike corridor is redundant and therefore totally unnecessary. It duplicates the nearby Valparaiso-Glenwood bike corridor that was recently upgraded at a cost of over $400,000 and largely funded by a county agency. This work was specifically designed to serve students who must access schools on the other side of Elmino Real, e.g. Hillview Middle School, M-A High School, Menlo School, Sacred Heart, St Raymonds, and Encinal. Two new convenient east-west bike corridors are needed for students and non-students: Menlo-Ravenswood now and a Middle connection to Alma when Stanford builds 500 ECR. Then our city would truly become bicyclist-friendly. Costly and disruptive Oak Grove bike lanes should be avoided. Simply connect the Greenheart development at 1300 ECR with bike lanes to the train station, Alma and Laurel when this prject is built (2019?)
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