Traffic at Alejandra and El Camino is unbearable as well, especially when Menlo College, Menlo School and Sacred Heart are in session. Wish this would be addressed. Have complained/commented for years.

The El Camino corridor from Alejandra all the way south through Menlo Park is ridiculous. Construction causing closed lanes, increase in traffic, and more development which will add many more cars is making it so difficult to drive in this area. 15 minutes from Alejandra to get to Santa Cruz Avenue. Too much building in Menlo Park. And they want to put another hotel where Red Cottage is located as well as develop Beltramos property! So frustrating!

Town Council needs to get Menlo Park and County to add back a vehicular lane through Menlo Park's portion of El Camino...why it goes from 3 lanes to 2 lanes only in MPark affects every community north and south of MPark. Not sure traffic lights will solve all the problems on Atherton Avenue since it will only serve to increase the back ups at the intersection but it's a start. No left turns onto Polhemus and Stockbridge will help during rush hours but Waze most certainly will direct those people down Woodside Road to San Carlos where they will turn right , head to Selby then right on Selby to Atherton Ave where they will turn left in order to get to Barry Lane and to the schools on Valparaiso.
Whatever the solution, it sadly will put more traffic on alternative residential streets in Atherton.

Atherton should work with the other communities (Redwood City, Menlo Park and the County) to address the problem instead of applying a path here and there that will probably not fix the problem and will likely cause problems in other places. Let's face it if Menlo Park or RWC decides to do the same thing Atherton is doing they will likely just push traffic to Atherton, Palo Alto, etc. Who loses? Everyone from the drivers to the residents of the cities who can not get to and from their homes.

Are taxpayers paying for cameras that are always on, or will Atherton officers have a choice about when to use them? Recall the Stanford professor incident in which a policy that seemed pretty clear about camera use being mandatory was interpreted by the police as the officer had the choice. Just pointing out that without a bullet proof policy - no pun intended - the large expenditure only protects the police instead of both police and public.