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Andrew Boone

Andrew Boone covers the Livable Streets Movements for Streetsblog in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Andrew's claim to fame is once having bicycled more than 12,000 miles of smiles in one year. nauboone@gmail.com

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Caltrain carries 60,000 people on an average weekday, far below its potential. Photo: Sergio Ruiz
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Advocates Envision a Transit-Rich Caltrain/Highway 101 Corridor in Bay Area

By Andrew Boone | Jul 3, 2017 | No Comments
The main corridor connecting San Francisco with Silicon Valley is plagued by crowded trains, a congested Highway 101, and ineffective public bus services. "Let's imagine a railroad that has so much capacity and utility that people are using it for all kinds of trips," says SPUR's Transportation Policy Director.
Menlo Park plans to include just one five-foot wide bike lane on the south side of Haven Avenue, and no bike lane at all on the north side, where parallel parking will be removed. Photo: Andrew Boone
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Bike Lane Gap in Menlo Park Bay Trail Route

By Andrew Boone | Jun 23, 2017 | No Comments
Designers somehow weren’t able to find any space to install bike lanes nearest to Marsh Road, where the street is a massive 80 feet wide. City planners instead hope to lure bicyclists onto the new sidewalks with signs reading “Bicycles OK to Use Sidewalk.”
37 percent of SamTrans passengers are ages 24 and under, a key demographic among whom the bus agency hopes to boost ridership. Photo: SamTrans
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SamTrans Targets Next Generation of Bus Riders With Youth Mobility Plan

By Andrew Boone | Jun 13, 2017 | No Comments
San Mateo County Transit District's Youth Mobility Plan recommends a number of initiatives to boost the agency’s declining ridership by improving quality of service for youth. “Today’s youth passengers are tomorrow’s adult passengers,” said SamTrans Senior Planner Lindsay Kiner.
San Mateo's Bay Bikes bike share system will expand to 100 bikes this October. Photo: City of San Mateo
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San Mateo Bike Share Update: City Readies to Double Fleet to 100 Bikes

By Andrew Boone | Jun 8, 2017 | No Comments
The City of San Mateo will double its Bay Bikes bike share fleet to 100 bikes by October.
San Mateo County officials are desperate to widen Highway 101 from eight to ten lanes at a cost of over $300 million. Photo: Andrew Boone
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Ten-Lane Widening Planned for Highway 101 in San Mateo County

By Andrew Boone | Jun 5, 2017 | No Comments
“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 shot down a proposal to restrict motor vehicle parking along Santa Cruz Avenue at a community meeting in Oak Knoll Elementary School last Monday. Photo: Andrew Boone
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Proposal to Remove Free Parking Riles Santa Cruz Avenue Residents

By Andrew Boone | Feb 2, 2017 | No Comments
Residents insist that safety changes are needed, but that removing parking won't help.
San Jose has designed larger curb radii into the newly widened Saint James Street, creating a new hazard for pedestrians. No crosswalk is included on the north side of the Saint James & Market street intersection. Image: City of San Jose
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San Jose Makes Saint James Street More Dangerous

By Andrew Boone | Dec 21, 2016 | No Comments
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."
Hazardous and uncomfortable conditions greet people walking and bicycling on or along El Camino Real in Redwood City. Photos: Dyett & Bhatia
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Redwood City El Camino Real Safety Fixes Still Years Away

By Andrew Boone | Dec 7, 2016 | No Comments
“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.
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Motorist Convenience Still Trumps Safety in South San Francisco

By Andrew Boone | Nov 22, 2016 | No Comments
South San Francisco will rebuild a one-mile segment of El Camino Real this Spring with wider sidewalks, safer crosswalks, curb extensions, pedestrian refuges, bike lanes, and new street trees planted in both the medians and sidewalks. However, the bike lanes won’t be continuous–to preserve curbside parking, in places they will disappear. And some intersections will […]
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San Mateo’s Highway 101/92 Interchange Eyed for Expansion

By Andrew Boone | Nov 16, 2016 | No Comments
More traffic going into more lanes for hundreds of millions of dollars rather than investing in potential transit solutions is, sadly, still business as usual in San Mateo County.

VTA Measure B’s Bloated Highway Expansions Leave Transit Unfunded

By Andrew Boone | Oct 25, 2016 | No Comments
This article is part of Streetsblog’s coverage of transportation sales tax measures throughout the state. There are a total of fourteen such initiatives on the November ballot, including Measure M in Los Angeles, Measures V and L in Merced and Stanislaus counties, Sacramento’s Measure B, and Contra Costa’s Measure X. We have also covered other Bay […]
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Palo Alto to Add Smart Bikes to Bike Share System

By Andrew Boone | Oct 10, 2016 | No Comments
On Tuesday evening, the Palo Alto City Council directed staff to continue contract negotiations for replacing the city’s existing 35 bike-share bikes with 350 new SoBi “smart bikes”. Unlike today’s Bay Area Bike Share bikes, SoBi bikes are equipped with an on-board lock so they aren’t dependent on fixed docking stations to operate. Customers can […]
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