Dear City Council,

Please use the same process for the alleyway between the Caltrain tracks and Bruce Bauer Lumber near San Antonio Circle. This is an important bike/pedestrian link between the high density Del Medio area and the Caltrain station. The path has recently been posted to prohibit entry, even though it has been used by the public for years. It even shows up as a walking route to the train station in Google Maps. For those reasons, I think it is already a prescriptive easement.

There's a bike/ped path there? I never found it. But I know that it is a extremely important place to have one since there is not good option to get from san antonio station to del media and palo alto (and in reverse) by bicycle. Going on the sidewalks is forced by the traffic, and by the awful design of the city streets there.
This is needed very very badly.

And to add, the city should put up good signage marking the path well on both sides of it for walkers and bicyclists.

Bicycling on streets is bad for your health from all the exhaust fumes and pollutants.

City council is exaggerating in implying that the alley is used a lot by vehicles & putting pedestrians & bicyclist in danger. The only vehicles that travel down Washington Alley are the ones belonging to the residents who’s garages are on the alley. I have on many occasions ridden & walked on this street w/no issues. It’s generally empty & when there is a car coming they are usually travelling slowly as they are getting ready to pull into their garage. Bicyclists don’t use this alley since there isn’t direct access to shoreline, when I see bicyclists turn down this alley they usually turn right around & go down Stierlin as again, it does not feed into any of the main streets. The only regular bicyclists & pedestrians that use this alley are those that live in the immediate area, like Washington Street, etc.

@implying is on target. It is hard to imagine anyone wanting to use the alley except those whose property backs up to it. They can will no longer be able to use Stierlin and will have to take a residential street over to Elmwood. They lose, Prometheus wins ...

This story, unfortunately, is missing some key information: Prometheus plans to add more apartments and people to the neighborhood and will closing down the on-ramp to Central Expressway from this street. The city has conceded there is a traffic problem on Moffett Blvd and will (hopefully) make an additional lane for turning onto Central in an attempt to alleviate the current problem. We now hear there will be parking permits issued to the neighborhood due to the congestion that is anticipated due to people wanting to take Light Rail/CalTrain to the new Levi's Stadium. This leaves the residents to believe the traffic problems will only get worse, not better in the future. Hmmm...I wonder why the residents oppose closing down one additional exit of getting out of the neighborhood. Maybe it was the $11 joke we were sent?