San Mateo County

What's it going to take to get traffic engineers and politicians to stop lying about widening?

Despite all the evidence that induced demand is making things worse, the SMCTA will just keep digging its own hole

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair

Virtual Town Hall on November 4; Comments/feedback due November 15

The SVBC Summit agenda includes a talk by Tamika Butler, former head of the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition.

The City of San Mateo will host a pair of community meetings next week in San Mateo and Burlingame over the proposed 101/Peninsula Avenue Interchange project. The project is a familiar type: it would relocate the US 101 southbound on-ramps and off-ramps from East Poplar Avenue to Peninsula Avenue, to eliminate the partial interchange and create a single, full-access interchange at Peninsula and Airport Boulevard.

There will be many news stories generated by the announcement of the details of President Donald Trump's proposed budget next month. In advance of the announcement, the campaign to preserve funding for the electrification of Caltrain is working with advocates around the state and country to preserve a nearly $650 million grant agreement scuttled by the Trump Administration in February.

The Silicon Valley Bike Vision report shows what peninsula cities are doing right, as well as what they could do better to improve conditions for bicyclists and encourage more people to ride. It serves as a vision of what bicycling could be like, and provides a general roadmap on how to get there.