A win, win, win

Tim, I hope you will stay engaged on this and share your ideas with City staff. You have the exact approach I think City Council is looking for - provide safe means of travel for all residents without unnecessary costs or burdens. Thank you.

The bike lanes work, why would anyone lobby for taking something that works away?

But if the "Parking" was really a problem here, why has nobody ever asked for a "Parking Demand" study? Or why isn't a permit system the first solution to consider. Menlo Park has been doing for 60 years and it works perfectly.

Taking away bike lanes is not an 'elegant solution' or compromise - it's robbing children of their safety and their health. Only cynics would mix small children with cybertrucks and Hummers in the same lane. After dark "sharing the road" is not an option for All-Ages-All-Abilities (AAA) or 8-80s.

In other words if you have 4 lanes for car before and 4 lanes for cars after you implemented your 'elegant solution' - it is not considered a solution. Nothing makes drivers more mad than driving behind slow vehicles or people on bicycles. We don't need more road rage, we need more separation.

Here are a few elegant solutions to this problem:

- The General Plan 2040 demands bike lanes here

- The "Equity Framework and Action Plan" demands bike lanes here

- The "Shared Vision 2025" demands bike lanes here

The bike lanes have shown to work. The goal is to finalize the promised bike lane network and not to take it down.

Here are a few elegant solutions:

- enforce municipal codes - so people store their vehicles on their property

- enforce municipal codes - so cars aren't stored here for weeks at a time

- enforce municipal codes - so people from other neighborhoods stop storing their cars here (why else would people from other neighborhoods be so involved here?)

- leave the Bike Lanes, but "Share the Road" by merging the parking and driving lanes together.

- merging parking and driving lanes together slows down traffic. It's the perfect traffic calming tool.

- Look up SF neckdowns - the same can be achieved with strategically placed car storage.

- Menlo Park prohibits overnight on-street parking - that solves all problems.