Public Input Sought on Santa Cruz Ave, Alameda de las Pulgas

From SMC: The Santa Cruz Avenue and Alameda Corridor Improvement Task Force, led by the San Mateo County Department of Public Works (DPW), is asking the community that lives near or uses the busy main thoroughfare to share their safety improvement priorities.

A public survey opens today, Sept. 4, 2018, and will remain available through Sept. 23, 2018. The survey is one tool used by the task force to determine near- and long-term opportunities to improve traffic-related safety in the corridor between Sand Hill Road and Avy Avenue. The corridor experiences heavy traffic vehicle volume and provides critical access to pedestrians and bicyclists via a limited public right-of-way.

Community concerns about how to best balance the needs and safety of all users through the corridor prompted Third District Supervisor Don Horsley to sponsor funding from Measure K, the voter-approved half-cent sales tax, to study the feasibility of connectivity improvements to benefit residents, pedestrians, cycles and motorists.

The Santa Cruz Avenue and Alameda Corridor Improvement Task Force launched in October 2017 with an initial public meeting to ensure community involvement in the planning process and meets monthly to review traffic data, discuss stakeholder perspectives and propose potential solutions. In the year since, approved near-term improvements have included reduced speed limits, radar feedback signs and bicycle sharrow markers. In the long-term, DPW anticipates continuing its work with the task force to evaluate conceptual ideas for the master plan of corridor improvements for Santa Cruz Avenue and Alameda de las Pulgas. The public survey is the latest step to specifically help rank competing priorities and potential improvements.

Task force members include the City of Menlo Park, neighborhood residents, cyclists, commuters, law enforcement, fire district representatives and Safe Routes to School advocates.

For more information about the project and to access the survey, please visit https://publicworks.smcgov.org/projects/santa-cruz-avenue-corridor-study.

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