Keep the North Central bike lanes

I agree this makes NO SENSE.

It makes NO SENSE that the city spent a year not seriously evaluating alternatives, despite being directed to do so.

It makes NO SENSE that funds intended for street-lighting and safety improvements were repurposed to replace shared lanes with unprotected bike lanes, stripping residents of curbside parking and negatively impacting daily life, all for an average of just a handful of bike trips per day.

It makes NO SENSE to claim these lanes are “safer” when no responsible parent would allow a child to ride inches from moving traffic with no physical protection – and perhaps explaining why, after many years, children still do not use them.

It makes NO SENSE to argue simultaneously that North Central residents “don’t own cars” and that the neighborhood has “too many cars.” Both cannot be true – CRAZY NONSENSE.

And it makes NO SENSE to ignore the real equity issue: seniors, disabled residents, and families who lost access to parking in front of their own homes.

Doing the right thing now means acknowledging past mistakes, restoring resident parking, and pursuing solutions that actually balance safety, equity, and fiscal responsibility.

The city council needs to do the right thing and remedy the damage caused by previous bad actors that mis-used taxpayer monies. We must now own up to that mistake and remove the barely used bike lanes and restore resident parking for this Equity Priority Community.

NO SENSE-ible person would argue otherwise.

Thanks for your letter, Mr. Simpson, but it is apparent that the city didn’t do the right thing when they installed these discriminatory bike lanes. It would be the right thing to do for the city to right their wrong and remove said bike lanes. For North Central and all of the community.

Terence --- very well said and simply said, masterfully.

The all-powerful car lobby wants a San Mateo County where people pay:

- an average of $50,000 for a new car

- an average of $30,000 for a used car

- $12,000 every year for gas, insurance, vehicle maintenance

- $2 for every mile of driving

... and on top of that they still require subsidies through "free ways" and "free car storage" everywhere.

This system works because San Mateo Democrats do everything to fight the competition:

- they waste SamTrans funding on real estate deals, "electrification" and hydrogen

- they waste Caltrain funding on car-centric "grade separations"

- MTC (Canepa and Papan) made sure even more money goes to a car-centric slush fund

... and they remove bike lanes that would help low-income families to get their kids to school.

Shame on those addicts and "sponsored" politicians.