Help is on the way for Los Altos students who walk or bike to and from school along Homestead Road, a route that’s proven to be dangerous as it crosses through six jurisdictions. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors this month allocated $100,000 toward safety improvements along the corridor.
A Caltrans project in the works for more than 10 years is just now catching the eye of many concerned residents of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties who would be affected by it – toll lanes on Highway 101.
A busy Mountain View intersection where a pedestrian lost her life in 2015 could experience a traffic safety transformation come summer.
Mountain View city staff members will soon sign a contract for $280,000 worth of improvements – including new signage and the removal of a crosswalk – to the El Monte Avenue-Marich Way intersection, according to senior traffic engineer Lorenzo Lopez.
The challengers to a recent public transit funding bond are readying their final brief for the Sixth District Court of Appeal, which will hear final arguments before a decision later this spring.
The Valley Transportation Authority’s 30-year, half-cent countywide sales tax aimed to improve transit, highways, expressways and transportation options. Nearly 72 percent of voters approved an estimated $6.3 billion in funds for the Santa Clara County transportation projects in 2016.
When it comes to parking capacity, 85 percent occupancy is considered the threshold at which drivers commence circling like sharks for an empty space. With capacity well above this point at peak times in downtown Mountain View, the feeding frenzy starts early on local streets.
A new pilot program offering free valet parking downtown is already relieving some drivers’ frustrations, however.
At last week’s Los Altos Complete Streets Commission meeting, Sgt. Liz Checke said she and her Los Altos Police Department traffic enforcement team have consistently clocked drivers traveling 38-42 mph on Cuesta Drive. The posted speed limit: 25 mph.
