I read your Monday article, “Residents south of 92/101 exchange face traffic fatigue,” feeling this is just one example of what is occurring all over the Peninsula. Try to get to Foster City from Belmont on State Route 92 after 3 p.m. Try to reach Interstate 280 from Sand Hill after 2:30. Try driving down Ralston Avenue when school is starting. Try to maneuver the back roads, side streets to avoid the congestion everywhere, and this no longer works at rush hour either. We live on a narrow Peninsula with only a few major arteries that can only become more clogged as the massive building continues. Where is the planning? Where are the solutions? Let one major disaster erupt here, like an earthquake or devastating fire and people may as well walk out of their neighborhoods to escape. There will be no way to drive out.
The fix is not to make it more easy to drive around. The costs associated with living in a car limited geography should be felt in housing costs. That house in the hills is perhaps not worth what people thought it was worth because they are too isolated for people with jobs.
so true, I live in SSF and it's really bad and going to be much worse went they finish all the building. I was at a traffic light the other day the traffic was backed up at least 70 cars, at the back of the line were police cars trying to get through. The problem was there were parked cars on one side and a big hedge and bushes in the center, also the police cars were so far back the people in the front of the line couldn't see them so they were stuck. I was sitting there thinking to myself, I wonder how much of a head start the bank robbers are going to have. Our city council and city manager must have their heads up their a%$! thinking this is going to work out well for the current residents.
A step in the right direction would be to lobby your city councils to withdraw their memberships in ICLEI and to reject their advice as that is what is leading to all this congestion. It would also be helpful to get your cities to reject the One Bay Area Plan.
You can thank MTC, One Bay Area Plan, & ICLEI for the Gridlock and vulgar Tall Buildings built right on the sidewalk property line. Get back to Local Control. Merry Christmas
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the solution is to build more housing so that we can make the issue worse. Gubmint looking out for you.
More housing (which allows people to live closer to jobs and cut down on commute times) makes the issue better, not worse.
The fix is not to make it more easy to drive around. The costs associated with living in a car limited geography should be felt in housing costs. That house in the hills is perhaps not worth what people thought it was worth because they are too isolated for people with jobs.
so true, I live in SSF and it's really bad and going to be much worse went they finish all the building. I was at a traffic light the other day the traffic was backed up at least 70 cars, at the back of the line were police cars trying to get through. The problem was there were parked cars on one side and a big hedge and bushes in the center, also the police cars were so far back the people in the front of the line couldn't see them so they were stuck. I was sitting there thinking to myself, I wonder how much of a head start the bank robbers are going to have. Our city council and city manager must have their heads up their a%$! thinking this is going to work out well for the current residents.
A step in the right direction would be to lobby your city councils to withdraw their memberships in ICLEI and to reject their advice as that is what is leading to all this congestion. It would also be helpful to get your cities to reject the One Bay Area Plan.
You can thank MTC, One Bay Area Plan, & ICLEI for the Gridlock and vulgar Tall Buildings built right on the sidewalk property line. Get back to Local Control. Merry Christmas
You sound like a man who knows his tinfoil!
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