Editor,
San Mateo has installed a block long bicycle lane on the south side of North Delaware Street at Poplar Avenue, after which cyclists must enter the lane of traffic. North Delaware Street is a high-traffic artery and also the route for Samtrans No. 292.
There is hardly enough room for two bicycles and two cars to safely pass, let alone two buses, not to mention the law now mandates a 3-foot clearance when passing a cyclist. There is also the ever-present danger of dooring as well.
I frequently cycle to downtown using either adjacent street, as they are far more bicycle-friendly. I wouldn’t take North Delaware Street for love or money.
Tim Donnelly
San Mateo
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Please take 10 minutes to view this video - common sense and safety combined.
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I couldn't agree more with Tim's letter. I've sent to the City Council more than once, my thoughts on the Bike Lanes project both before they happened and currently. My feeling is that the "speed differential" between the average bike/scooter/skater, is far too large to make it safe without an actual physical barrier. Of course, barriers are pretty much out of the question due to their non-practicality in our situation. The only one around here is the California Ave. lanes on an extremely wide road in Burlingame. Keeping bikers on the side (slower) streets, is the best solution along with the possible making the narrow ones one way only. That in itself will require good public discussion. Oh, and I forgot the Bulb Outs. You could also call them "Bicycle Demolition Devices" as they present more hazard than safety, in my opinion.
Thanks, Tim. Agreed - this is sketchy.
This is a reason that the Council needs to reject the proposal to spend $2M to rip out the Humboldt bike lanes, near Delaware, on the other side of San Mateo High and Fiesta Gardens Elementary. Please attend next Monday's City Council meeting to let them know that we need to move forward, not backward, on street safety.
Note that yesterday on the southern side of Delaware, in Bay Meadows, a bicyclist was carted off in an ambulance after a crash in an area where people on bikes are forced to share the road with cars. The City refused to install bike lanes in this area as part of the upcoming Delaware Safe Routes to School project (which has many otherwise very positive elements).
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