In modern Silicon Valley, it is very common for employees to live in one city and work in an adjacent city. It is really about time that cities worked together to create bicycle routes that connected cities instead of splitting them apart. Many Google employees live in Palo Alto, but how do they safely get to Google by bicycle? The distance is only a mile, but the convoluted bicycle routes encourage them to drive instead, putting many more cars on the road.

Another tragedy is San Antonio Road. There are nice bike lanes west of El Camino, but they disappear with no warning once you get to El Camino and then what do you do? A bicyclist was killed here last year, possibly because he just did not know that his bike lane would disappear when he got to the other side of the intersection and then he got pinned by a passing car.

I am glad that cities are at least saying they have to fix these problems.

A bike route around the bottom of the bay would help people get into SV from the Fremont area. Things seem to become disjointed south of Sunnyvale.

Google employees who live in Palo Alto typically use the bridges over/under 101 in Palo Alto, and East Bayshore or the Bay Trail to get to Google. A small number who live in South Palo Alto are forced during the winter months to use San Antonio or Rengstorff.

A more pressing issue is MV and LA commuters who have no way to get through to Google and LinkedIn and Intuit on streets like Rengstorff and Shoreline. In other words, it looks like this project is the Flavor of the Month but not the main course.

(Does anyone know what that cryptic statement at the end of the article means...?)

There is already the popular Bay Trail that I use going from Mountain View to Redwood Shores but it badly needs repaving in several sections through Palo Alto, East PA, Menlo Park and Redwood City.

I wish this would be given priority and attention before embarking on new trails.