“The goal here is to make a consistent travel time for carpools and buses,” said San Mateo County Transportation Authority Deputy Project Manager Leo Scott. "If we can do that, we incentivize the movement from single occupancy cars to higher occupancy vehicles.” At the same time, widening the highway to ten lanes does exactly the opposite, creating more space for more single occupancy vehicles - Caltrans is expecting the number of vehicles on Highway 101 to jump between four to seven percent in just the next three years.

Residents insist that safety changes are needed, but that removing parking won't help.

Removing a nasty S-curve and replacing it with a grid is good, but much of the North San Pedro plan still screams "car traffic first."

“It’s very auto-oriented right now but that doesn’t mean people don’t walk on it, take transit on it, and occasionally bike on it--but conditions for those uses are... not that great,” noted a planner in a rather massive understatement.