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Caltrain crossings down again this morning

Original post made by Menlo oldtimer, Menlo Park: other, on Apr 3, 2015

At 830 am the caltrain crossing borders were down malfunctioning at several crossing around the Menlo Park train station. Traffic backed up for miles as people could not turn onto side streets where the crossings were down. Children had to get out and run across the red light on the tracks to get to M A and Nativity. When will Caltrain repair the crossing barriers, perhaps they go up and down at any time, sending a vehicle into a train.

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Posted by Hank
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Apr 3, 2015 at 10:18 am

Raise the tracks!

No 'gate' issues in San Carlos, Belmont or anywhere else the tracks have been raised.

Infrastructure = progress.

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Posted by Tunbridge Wells
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Apr 3, 2015 at 10:28 am
Tunbridge Wells is a registered user.

The same thing happened last night around 10pm, all four crossings were closed. Grade separations are long overdue.

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Posted by resident
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Apr 3, 2015 at 11:40 am

We agree. Time to stop stalling and elevate the tracks all the way through town. Grade separations are a safety issue, congestion issue, and noise issue.

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Posted by nuts
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Apr 5, 2015 at 9:57 am

Since the problem is caused by Caltrain's infra structure, rather than raise the tracks, just close down money the losing, lousy performance, suicide corridor of Caltrain, and realize the tracks no longer belong down the heart of our city.

Indeed all the problems are simply caused by Caltrain, so let us just close down Caltrain. Now that is a great solution

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Posted by really nuts
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Apr 5, 2015 at 11:25 am

We need to make the peninsula more car friendly. Lets replace El Camino Real with a double decker freeway.

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Posted by Doomed
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 5, 2015 at 1:48 pm

ABAG is promoting the building of high density housing along the rail corridor. Check out Redwood City. There are several new apartment complexes going up near their R/R station. Soon, Menlo Park's El Camino Real will be filled with the same, including the Roger Reynolds lot and the Foster's Freeze location.

The occupants may use the train to commute. But, they will also all have cars and be on the road as well. You haven't seen anything yet.

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