Greetings to our Councilmembers, We are pleased that the time has come for a review of making Santa Cruz Ave. a 2-way street again. We spent some time reading Staff Report 25-090-CC this week. As in earlier notes to the council we remain firmly in favor of reopening the 600 block to 2-way vehi...
Hi, I live in Menlo Park and am writing to ask you to please re-open Santa Cruz Avenue. It was useful to have expanded outdoor dining during COVID, both for the safety of residence and the solvency of restaurants. During that time, people were not commuting, going to school in-person or driving a...
Dear Council, With this topic on the agenda for Tuesday, I’d like to reiterate my support for keeping the 600 block downtown as it is—closed on one side with a bike lane, and one-way on the other. Pedestrian-friendly spaces have played a key role in revitalizing downtowns across the country. T...
Dear Mayor Combs and City Council members, I urge you to vote to keep the 600 block on Santa Cruz Avenue as it is: closed to through traffic heading east. Ali Elsafy, owner of Bistro Vida, has done more to enhance Santa Cruz Avenue than anyone else, and has exciting plans to do even more for th...
Dear City Council members, I am traveling and not able to attend tonights meeting; however, I do want express my desire for strong traffic safety. Traffic safety is a many sided beast, so its important to include traffic mitigation, relief, and management. The old school of just widening roads is no...
Hi there, I know MP is considering congestion relief to its transit goals. I would urge that this doesn't displace safety as a top priority. Bike and pedestrian's safely shouldn't be secondary to congestion! And in fact, these two are very intertwined. Safer biking routes means more bikers means les...
Dear City Council, I support the effort to reduce the noise of trains passing by. I love the CalTrain but it makes an extreme and unnecessary amount of noise. I know noise pollution is not always taken seriously, but please do care about this issue as it has both mental and physical health implic...
Thank you for your ongoing commitment to Safe Routes. Thank you,Page Curtin
Dear City Council, Forget trains. It's time for something radically different. Can't we just turn Caltrain into a track for autonomous vehicles. Would cost less than the billions it would take to fix all the over/underpasses. Safer and more energy efficient too. See https://www.theatlantic.com/techn...
Hi there,I know MP is considering congestion relief to its transit goals. I would urge that this doesn't displace safety as a top priority. Bike and pedestrian's safely shouldn't be secondary to congestion! And in fact, these two are very intertwined. Safer biking routes means more bikers means less...
