Apologies for the forwarded email, I used an incorrect email.
Alice
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From: Dnahom
To: City Council
Cc: Kevin Chen ; jsquared2k3@gmail.com ; sallycolehome@gmail.com ; kbehroozi@gmail.com ; silverstein.ross@gmail.com ; commissionerkollmann@gmail.com ; lizbethaking@me.com ; brianaltman22@gmail.com ; policechief@menlopark.gov ; Daniel Hom
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2023 at 04:07:55 PM PDT
Subject: Will Willow Road be a focus for this city?
Hello Mayor Wolosin, City Council members, Kevin, Chief Police Norris, and members of the Complete Streets Commission,
I am addressing you all because at one time or another traveled Willow Road in some capacity en route to US-101 or toward CA-84, so would like the issue of an unsafe road to be on your radar.
We reside on the 200 block of Willow Road between Middlefield/Nash, speeding issues have been an ongoing issue through Bay Road for decades.
If there are any updates we may have missed or staff reports, please feel free to send us a link.
THANK YOU:
* The city has done a great job doing some work on visual deterrents to slow down with installing the speed readers.
* The extra lane for bikes has made a big difference. More and more people are on their bikes, gas prices are up, and kids can go independently to their summer camps.
* Middlefield merging to one lane
Unfortunately, the reality is, drivers will continue to speed, and make up for "lost" time once they pass the electronic reader. The flaw with the electronic readers is they dont have the legal speed limit on it.
* As a daily driver on Willow Road, I am continuously being harassed for going 25mph with cars so close to my bumper, its frightening.
* I live on the odd number side of the street (north) and trying to make a left turn out of my driveway has become a dangerous sport of chicken as cars are coming up too quickly. When I can, I edge out onto the westbound lane when safe until a kind driver going eastbound lets me in.
* The other option is turning right on Willow, Middlefield, Santa Margarita, Gilbert, and finally a left turn at the light onto Willow.
I hope you can imagine being in our shoes, thinking if todays the day Im going to get hit simply by leaving your driveway.
Points:
1. lighted crosswalks - it would be easy to cross the street if cars werent speeding
2. a need for road bumps that our neighbors with even LESS traffic have, making it physically deter speeding
3. how did our specific neighborhood get approved from being zoned a residential to a mixed-use road, which is why point # 2 request has been a roadblock
4. Can City Council contact all public transportation to alert their buses are speeding?
5. With the proposal of developers wanting to build at the former Sunset magazine, not only will traffic be more congested, but isnt the need for crosswalks even more essential and necessary??
6. City Council should be looking at what is best for the safety of the residents and the city, not spend more funds on how to make traffic flow through easier. You cant change how people get to US-101.
7. Residents vs commuters, what is the priority?
The reality is, speeding on Willow Road between Middlefield through Bay Road exists (and is allowed due to the lack of traffic tickets) in such a grossly egregious manner. Drivers know the speed limit but choose to ignore it. This issue is a problem and long overdue in solving it.
Ive been waiting since my 30s and now in my 60s for something to be done.
Sincerely,
Alice Hom