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Stanford trail set to open

Original post made on May 13, 2011

A long-awaited trail that runs south of Page Mill Road and Foothill Expressway through the foothills could be open to the public as soon as next week, a Stanford University official said this week. The trail is one of two the university is required to construct to satisfy its land-use agreement with Santa Clara County, approved in 2000.

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Comments

Posted by trail to nowhere
a resident of another community
on May 13, 2011 at 12:24 pm

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.


Posted by gunste
a resident of Portola Valley: Ladera
on May 13, 2011 at 1:13 pm

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.


Posted by Donald
a resident of another community
on May 13, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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.


Posted by Joseph E. Davis
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on May 14, 2011 at 10:01 am

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