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Half Moon Bay is applying to fund pedestrian safety and accessibility projects, including new pedestrian crosswalks and signs, near Cunha Intermediate School with a San Mateo County Transportation Authority grant.
The city is applying for $465,000 in funding and committing to put in $35,000 of its own money for the project, which would enhance drop-off at Cunha Intermediate School and include traffic calming bulbs with high-visibility crosswalks around the area.
Councilmembers didn’t vote to approve another proposed grant, which would have asked the TA for $200,000 — with a $10,000 local match — to fund a detailed parking study downtown.
“I think another parking study is going to show us we need more parking, and we know that,” Councilmember Deborah Penrose said. “So why do the study? I don’t get the point of the study.”
Half Moon Bay is sorely in need of a parking garage to offset the parking congestion downtown and the city should focus on that or other, more comprehensive efforts beside additional studies, Vice Mayor Debbie Ruddock said.
“I think it’s kind of clear to everybody what we need is a parking garage. I don’t like the idea of spending any more money, whether it’s theirs or a portion of ours, doing a downtown parking study,” she said. “I just see this, frankly, as kind of a fools’ errand.”
The project that was approved for grant application, the Cunha Intermediate School Safety and Connectivity Project, would also remove five parking spaces on Miramontes Street.
Councilmembers expressed concern that this element of the project — which would take 12 spots on Miramontes down to seven angled parking spaces — could create further parking problems downtown.
“I think a loss of five spaces downtown is a problem,” Ruddock said. “What I’m wondering is, can you look at something to regulate the time you can park there?”
Staff will look into the possibility of retaining additional parking or making the new parking spots timed, City Manager Matthew Chidester said, noting that the project will come back to the council for additional review.
“It’s the first step in many steps. This will come back to council many times,” he said.
The overarching goal of the project is to make pedestrian access to downtown more accessible, according to the staff report.
“Cunha Intermediate School Safety and Connectivity Project was developed in response to safety concerns and long-standing gaps in the city’s biking and walking network, especially for students and families trying to reach key destinations like schools,” the staff report said.
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Hey, eGerd and joebob91, if you’re out there, TBot here. Oh no! Half Moon Bay is sorely in need of a parking garage, with which the Vice Mayor readily agrees. Seems mass transportation isn’t cutting the mustard out to HMB. And how long will it take, assuming folks are in fine shape, to cycle to Half Moon Bay to enjoy the town? How long does it take each of you to get over the hill on pedal power? Or would you propose we spend at least $30 billion of gas tax money to build/dedicate bike lanes to HMB even though cyclists don’t contribute any money to bicycle infrastructure?
TBot old friend. In your car-blindness ways you are missing basically ALL important facts here. HMB has no money, but needs to do "more studies" - please .... you know better than that. They are looking to waste tax payer money.
Whenever I'm in HMB there is no problem finding parking along Main Street. Certain council members might not be in the best shape to walk a little, but for the rest of the populations walking 5 min. is not such a chore, that a broke city needs to spend millions.
First they should install parking meters to avoid all the Private Car Storage we see in many downtowns and neighborhoods (like SM North Central). Install parking meters or permit systems and the squatting problem is gone.
Btw. after they built the million dollar garage, it will be empty, because no one likes to park in parking garages either. Just look at the downtown parking garages in San Mateo or Redwood City ... cheap and still empty all the time.
As for the missing trails and bike lanes to get children to school or tourists over the hill, we are both on the same page how incompetent San Mateo Democrats are in that regard.
In Moab, UT - the red state heaven for ATVs and off-road vehicles - I can ride a bicycle on bike paths/lanes to two popular National Parks. Paris, TX has a nice ped/bike path ("Trail de Paris") connecting schools throughout their city with neighboring jurisdictions.
Despite "working" for 50 years on the concept, San Mateo Democrats (C/CAG) haven't established even one safe North-South or East-West connector in their blue county. Pathetic, to say the least. Red States seem to be "greener" these days than blue states.
eGerd – TBot here. So no answers to a few simple questions regarding the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of mass transportation in, or cycling to, HMB. And no response to the need for a parking garage. BTW, what does Moab, UT have to do with HMB? And there’s no such thing as a safe connector, anywhere. Accidents are always a possibility. And red states are greener these days than blue states? Possible. Perhaps folks there walk the walk instead of just talk the talk.
"accidents" are "acts of gods" - that's when a branch falls onto a driving car or maybe a mudslide. How many times does that happen?
That would leave >99% of crashes the fault of someone more human - and the law and insurance will blame the driver also in ca. 99% of all those cases. Civil lawsuits prefer to go after cities and will often win.
All these cities are btw. Vision Zero cities, which means they admit it's either the driver or their fault in case of serious injuries or fatalities.
Take the young woman in Burlingame. We can blame the city of Burlingame for not having bike lanes there and worse allowing on-street parking instead of following the new "daylighting" laws.
Then of course the driver herself was speeding, violated right-of-way and hit four children in the process.
Apparently no one likes parking garages. They are a way to waste money and then stay empty.
Check out the garages in Redwood City and San Mateo - always empty despite full parking lots around them. There is plenty of parking in HMB, if people weren't too lazy to walk a little - which shouldn't be a huge problem for tourists.
Mass Transportation: SamTrans could provide shuttles between Canada Rd and HMB.
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