Humboldt Street bike lanes

Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025
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Editor,

On Monday evening, Feb. 3, the San Mateo City Council will hold another discussion on the Humboldt Street bike lanes.

(3) comments

Terence Y Jan 30, 2025 8:44am

Thanks for you letter, Mr. Simpson. You say the city “promised” a number of things and that not much has been accomplished. Perhaps the city has looked at proposed solutions and have determined that none of those solutions are viable and that perhaps, residents in affected areas may have been inconvenienced long enough. If these other solutions haven’t been viable, do you or those who don’t want the bike lanes to be removed have alternative solutions that are viable? If they haven’t they been proposed in the past, now’s the time.

easygerd Feb 3, 2025 10:33am

TBot old friend. The solutions are well known, they are probably also part of "Project 2026 - The Update" and DOGE = Department of Government Efficiency (because a yet another governmental department bureaucracy always make things cheaper):

- Cut or Reduce wasteful spending

- streamlining government efficiency

- Reduce Government Expenditure

- Stop the Entitlement Programs

- Get these cars into garages or onto the lawn

- Stop subsidizing Convenience

- Get the government off people's back and out of their pocket

Streets are made for Transportation not the storage of private excess vehicles. Give us cheap bus and bike lanes as many voters have agreed on. Only those will relieve congestion. Instead they take our money and put it in the pockets of people with too many cars. Every street here now has not one, but two lanes of space dedicated to vehicles that won't move for 72h. Residents pay for that transportation space and the San Mateo city council keeps giving our space to squatters who are ranking on our space. And then they are asking for bonds and propositions so they can build more car storage. That is wasteful government planning and spending. That is a subsidy gone wrong. DOGE should give public transportation space back to the public for transportation.

Terence Y Feb 4, 2025 8:36am

eGerd – Tbot here…thanks for a listing of your 7 “commandments” but remember, the problem was caused by the city wanting to reward union labor with use-it-or-lose-it federal funds. Since then, the city has had to deal with their short-sighted and self-inflicted wound in attempting to repair their mistake. It seems the “system” before new bike lanes were installed was working well enough so let’s return to that setup. Sure, it may result in another reward to union labor but that should be the end of it. We shouldn’t continue to throw good money after bad attempting with endless meetings to discuss and potentially implement band-aids. Cars will always be more efficient and convenient than bicycles.

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