Cyclist safety on El Camino Real through Burlingame

Thanks for your letter, Giuliano. It would be more convincing if cyclists paid their fair share, or any share, in paying for bicycle infrastructure. As for wasting taxpayer money, perhaps we can poll the folks on the Grand Boulevard where they feel $750 million to $1 billion of taxpayer money should be spent on. They’re the most affected, not cyclists.

The funny side story here is that former Burlingame Mayor Emily Beach was heading the county-wide effort of the "Grand Boulevard Initiative" for a while.

If I remember correctly, the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition even suggested to nominate her as "politician of the year" for heading the project to bring bike lanes onto El Camino Real everywhere along the Peninsula.

Not sure if they did or if she won, but that would have been quite the embarrassment as in the end - and under her leadership - Burlingame was the one city that famously declined to put bike lanes there because they didn't want to harm those great eucalyptus trees. Of course the trees had to go anyways.

And still Burlingame declined to put bike lanes there and SVBC still wanted to give Emily Beach an award.

So either SVBC didn't pay attention or SVBC really is a YIMBY-Astroturfing outlet - and NOT having bike lanes on ECR is what the salaried SVBC leadership is really paid for.