Editor,
It should be said:
• No poorly placed, rarely used bike lanes. Taxpayer money over misplaced priorities, please! We look to the City Council to put residents first.
• Ten resident leaders from multiple neighborhoods brought concerns Sept. 8 to city staff over the proposed 19th/Delaware bike lane installations.
• The city’s current data stands on a one-day traffic count. Morning — 33 bikes/4,600 cars; Evening — 39 bikes/9,000 cars.
• There’s an underlying feeling: “If this project is uncertain to make things better, why are we taking state funding to do it?” And, “Is this another case of residents vs. ideological agendas not grounded in data?”
• It’s unclear that funding the city is eager to take requires maximized bike lanes overtaking two lanes of limited road space.
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The SMDJ reported Caltrain is “scrambling” for a state loan to keep them solvent. My comment? “People will get out of their cars, they said. It’s why we need to build transit-oriented development, they said. And remove parking/car lanes for bike lanes, they said. And streamline massive residential projects to make housing affordable, they said.” How’s this working out?
It should be said:
• This “forced change” has not gone well. The state hands out (our) money for their “forced change” agenda. But when things go sideways (Humboldt) it’s up to resident taxpayers to pay (again) to fix.
• The Delaware/19th Avenue bike lane proposition must be done to result in real improvements. If it is not shown as a slam dunk, it should not be attempted.
Lisa Taner
San Mateo
(2) comments
Well said Lisa Taner. Well said indeed.
Thanks for your letter, Ms. Taner. I posit that many of these bike lane projects are to reward union labor. These union workers get paid to construct bike lanes and then get paid again to remove them – as what occurred in Humboldt. As long as union workers are rewarded, they don’t care who foots the bill.
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