Recent Streetsblog SF posts about East Palo Alto

East Palo Alto Considers Options for Bike/Ped Bridge Over Highway 101

By Andrew Boone | Jun 18, 2013 | 10 Comments

The dream of reconnecting the two halves of East Palo Alto divided by Highway 101 with a bicycle/pedestrian bridge moved one step closer to reality last month with the release of the project’s draft feasibility study [PDF]. Alta Planning + Design, which conducted the $300,000 study, examined five different possible alignments for the bridge, which are estimated […]

In East Palo Alto, Meager Bike/Ped Funding Leads to Half-Baked Safety Fixes

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 5, 2012

East Palo Alto was recently awarded $5 million to build a freeway off-ramp designed a decade ago that even the city’s traffic engineer admits is no longer needed because traffic volumes are down. But as part of the project, the north section of the University Avenue overpass — a treacherous but often necessary route for […]

Divided By a Highway, East Palo Alto Looks to Reconnect Its West Side

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

This is the first in a series of stories on East Palo Alto’s proposed bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing. It takes Maria del Socorro Macias about 40 minutes to walk from her neighborhood on the west side of East Palo Alto to her kids’ schools on the east side of Highway 101. To get there, she […]

Bike Donation Program to Benefit East Palo Alto Elementary Students

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

Brent Butler was leading a bicycle rodeo in East Palo Alto for the city’s first Streets Alive event last year when he realized just how many children were there without bikes. “What I decided to do is continue to teach the rules of the road even if we don’t have bicycles,” said Butler, the city’s […]