El Camino Bike Lanes in Palo Alto

Well, the Palo Alto meeting went pretty well. There was massive interest from the cycling community and nearly zero opposition from Palo Alto residents. That was good. Sadly, cyclist echo chambers can often seem like a clown car of people asking for things that just won’t happen given the current context, funding, and timelines. It …

Caltrans, Palo Alto, and Bike Lanes

Tonight, at 6pm, there is a joint community meeting hosted by Caltrans and Palo Alto to get feedback on the plan for repaving El Camino Real and adding protected bike lanes. We can expect that there will be plenty of people on “both sides”. Those sides are defined as “drivers who desperately don’t want to …