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About this blog: Growing up in Brooklyn, NY I lived in high-density housing and experienced transit-oriented services first hand. During high school and college summers I worked in Manhattan drafting tenant floor plans for high-rise office buildi...
(More)About this blog: Growing up in Brooklyn, NY I lived in high-density housing and experienced transit-oriented services first hand. During high school and college summers I worked in Manhattan drafting tenant floor plans for high-rise office buildings. This could have been a career option, but my interest in computers - unusual at the time - led me to the computer science program at the University of Wisconsin. A programming job on Page Mill Road brought me to Palo Alto after college. Since 1993 I consult on bridging law and technology, and serve as an expert witness in Intellectual Property litigation. We moved to Menlo Park's Linfield Oaks neighborhood in 1994. Neighborhood traffic issues motivated my initial volunteering as a Menlo Park Planning Commissioner, followed by a stint as a Chamber of Commerce board member and most recently a finance/audit committee member. I advocate community volunteering for meeting people, the neighborhoods, and understanding the myriad issues that somehow arise. As hobbies I collect contemporary art and vintage cameras. And? fly helicopters, which offer rare views of the nooks and crannies of the Bay Area.
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I see in the City Council email log email queue a note from neighbors Daniel and Alice Hom April 29, 2020, from regarding Willow Road repaving. This harkens to the state of traffic in Linfield Oaks when we purchased our home in 1994. At the time our realtor remarked that we’d never have to move – and she was right.
We soon observed an uncomfortable quantity and speed of vehicular traffic rounding the curved streets of Linfield Oaks – a neighborhood with many children playing outdoors. I drafted a petition requesting that the City Council consider addressing this issu e- traffic- , then gathered signatures from neighbors to present to the council. It took a year effort to convince council to reserve funding for a traffic study, and a subsequent effort to reserve funds to implement the speed control project’
The feature od the redesign incuded clearly deamrket intersection walking paths (in red), traffic direction arrows and bicycle paths.
As evidenced by past repaving, risk I see is that there is a tendency to dumb-down the elevation of the speed humps which temper vehicle speed and driver temptation.
(side saddle view)
