Good for East Palo Alto! I'm glad this important pedestrian route is going to be a lot safer for them.

Why can't Palo Alto get our act together and build a year-round pedestrian route across Hwy 101 in the southern part of town. Lots of people live in southern Palo Alto and work on the other side of the highway. It's a short safe walk or bike ride during the summer, but the bike path under the highway is closed during the winter and alternative routes are far out of the way and/or much more dangerous, especially during the dark evening commute.

The Bridge was needed way back when they took out the
"Underground" passage out!
Leaving the Then Citizens to Fight the Cars over the University Ramp.

@We Are The People

Wait, There was an underground passage? Where exactly, I'm genuinely curious?

It's great to see a useful project like this go up. Congratulations EPA on making it happen.

But, please don't waste money on a bike crossing at University. Put the same effort into getting the long term project done. The new bike bridge is way too close to University to make the University one a top priority.

Also, how are bike routes being set up on either side of the bridge? Reference is made to biking to/from Facebook. But what is the path for safe riding from the corner of the shopping mall over there? Routing bikes along the Bayshore with overloaded, over signalled traffic isn't great. But a bike route (lane/bike friendly layout like Bryant in PA, etc.) down Clarke to Bay continuing on University would be great.

@NO DRUGS, The under freeway passage is just North of San Antonio. It is closed during the winter months because it is at creek level.

And yet south Palo Alto still waits for a bridge. Sigh.

Anybody buying that story?

I think that once the Friendship bridge over the San Francisquito creek and connecting trails reopen (hopefully in December), that E. Bayshore Road won't be necessary for many cyclists traveling between Facebook, East Palo Alto, and Palo Alto. Don't forget there is already a bike bridge over 101 at Oregon Expressway.

Great to see the pedestrian bridge almost done. When will highway 101 be restriped to add back the lane that was taken during construction? Will go a long way to easing congestion...

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> When will highway 101 be restriped to add back the lane that was taken during construction?

Speaking of 101 lanes .... has anyone noticed the weird errors in striping on 101 from Palo Alto all the way to San Jose.

There are stipes that are folded, or curve off to the left or fight. Some of them are too short, some too long. What happened, and why has it not been fixed? Some of the lanes look like someone was really high when they were painting the lanes.

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