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
Recent Posts
Advocates Envision a Transit-Rich Caltrain/Highway 101 Corridor in Bay Area
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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.
Bike Lane Gap in Menlo Park Bay Trail Route
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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.”
SamTrans Targets Next Generation of Bus Riders With Youth Mobility Plan
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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 Bike Share Update: City Readies to Double Fleet to 100 Bikes
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The City of San Mateo will double its Bay Bikes bike share fleet to 100 bikes by October.
Ten-Lane Widening Planned for Highway 101 in San Mateo County
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“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.
Proposal to Remove Free Parking Riles Santa Cruz Avenue Residents
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Residents insist that safety changes are needed, but that removing parking won't help.
San Jose Makes Saint James Street More Dangerous
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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."
Redwood City El Camino Real Safety Fixes Still Years Away
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“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.
Motorist Convenience Still Trumps Safety in South San Francisco
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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 […]
San Mateo’s Highway 101/92 Interchange Eyed for Expansion
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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
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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 […]
Palo Alto to Add Smart Bikes to Bike Share System
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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 […]