Editorial: Menlo Park general plan update promising, but not ready for adoption

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"we want transportation improvements in the area, but right now ... we don't know what the costs would be" — Ray Mueller

The city council has no authority to impose restrictions on CalTrans. Any meaningful transportation improvements will require congressional support and funding. Council members in the region need to band together and demand traffic mitigation from Sacramento.

Adding more vehicle lanes will only attract more vehicles. We need to push for BRT lanes from Fremont BART to Redwood City Caltrain station, and have FREE buses running every 10 minutes during commute time. We also need congestion pricing on the bridge to pay for the busses. Poor people that must drive cars can supply tax returns to apply for a special FasTrak allowing them to sit in a special "gridlock" lane.

"Infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of government. We must use this moment to work together with our regional, state and federal agencies to fix the regional Dumbarton Corridor infrastructure that has been neglected for far too long. The need is clear and the path is in front of us. We must not only zone for the future, we must plan and build our infrastructure for the future, financed with a fiscally prudent plan that ensures the financial health of our city and protects the quality of life of our residents." - Ray Mueller, Councilmember and General Plan Advisory Committee Co-Chair, Katherine Strehl, Planning Commission Chairwoman and General Plan Advisory Committee Member, and Henry Riggs Planning Commissioner.

Tinker all you want folk but I'm afraid it's almost too late.

Plan infrastructure for the future? 10'years too late.

Whatever is built might catch us up with the transportation needs of the last decade. What about something to offset the horrific traffic of today and it's expected continuation in the next decade?