Murchison Drive in Millbrae, where bike lanes are planned to connect locations such as Mills High School and Spring Valley Elementary School, as well as the Millbrae BART station.
Construction of buffered bike lanes along Murchison Drive, which is split along Burlingame and Millbrae city lines, will begin in June and be completed by September of this year if the project goes to plan, Millbrae staff said.
The protected, Class II bike lane project will run from Sequoia Avenue to California Drive and was approved on the Burlingame side last year, when the Burlingame City Council simultaneously rejected the idea of putting a similar bike lane on Trousdale Drive.
As a result, a $100,000 portion of funding from the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County that was designated for Burlingame’s various bike improvement projects was re-allocated to Millbrae, Millbrae councilmembers said.
“The reason why we got the grant — originally, C/CAG issued a grant to Burlingame, which included safe routes to school,” Vice Mayor Stephen Rainaldi said. “They couldn't fulfill the obligation to the grant, hence the reason we’re doing the safe route to school to Mills.”
Burlingame is retaining the remaining $300,000 from the grant, which will go to their portion of the Murchison Drive project and similar endeavors on Davis Drive.
Even with the C/CAG grant, Millbrae will pay $149,000 for the remaining costs of the project, which will cost each city $249,000 total.
The project is slated to include bike lanes, pavement striping and markings, a painted center median, and designated parking stalls. Millbrae will not lose parking spots as a result of the project, staff said.
The new bike lanes are designed to enhance travel options in the neighborhood and connectivity to local schools like Mills High School and Spring Valley Elementary School, as well as the Millbrae BART station, according to a staff report.
Rainaldi emphasized that although Burlingame is the lead agency on the project, a safe bike route along Murchison Drive had been in Millbrae’s own plans prior to receiving the C/CAG grant.
“Before we got the grant this project for a bike lane on this street, Murchison, was [included] in the Capital Improvement Plan,” he said. “Funding was given to us — this was something that was already in the books.”
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Thumbs down to the City of Burlingame for promising to build safety infrastructure in front of Franklin Elementary School, taking taxpayer grant money for the project, and then cancelling this part of the project so that it could maintain car volumes and speeds on Trousdale. This decision came shortly after a driver killed 61-year-old Arlene Ocampo at El Camino & Trousdale.
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