Alright alright alriiiight.

The Stevens Creek Trail is great, but a lot of people live or work or go to school in parts of town not near the trail. We badly need safer and more direct bicycle routes connecting Mountain View to Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale. I hope this project gets us in that direction quickly.

The problem with the cyclists along Evelyn is that very often they do not abide the traffic law.
I walk the sidewalk there to Stevens Creek trail and see it all the time:
-Cyclists riding the wrong side of the road.
-Cyclists doing dangerous maneuvers passing the car that occupies the bike lane during the right turn.
-Cyclist riding w/o any light after the sunset.
-etc.

This is great news! I can't wait to see more of these efforts help transform our city into a much more bike-friendly place. Even Uber just announced that they're switching their focus from cars to bikes.

As long as it doesn't interfere with surface auto traffic, it's OK with me. Ideally, that means it doesn't run along heavily trafficked streets like Evelyn. Bikes and cars don't mix --- they are a deadly combination, especially with so many highly aggressive, law breaking bikers on our surface streets. I'd support a trail like the Stevens Creek trail that runs through open land north of Bayshore --- isolated from existing streets --- as the best option. Keep bikes and cars separate, not deliberately mixed together. "Sharing the road" clearly doesn't work on streets designed for automobiles and trucks.

As long as it doesn't interfere with surface bicycle traffic, it's OK with me. Ideally, that means there's a large bike lane with barriers that separate it from car lanes, along heavily trafficked streets like Evelyn. Bikes and cars don't mix --- they are a deadly combination, especially with so many highly aggressive, law breaking car drivers on our surface streets. I'd support a clearly-defined and separated trail like the Stevens Creek trail that runs through the center of town --- alongside existing streets --- as the best option. Keep bikes and cars separate, not deliberately mixed together. "Sharing the road" clearly doesn't work on streets designed for automobiles and trucks.

Don’t do it. Or at least look into the misery Palo Alto’s bike infrastructure has wrought on that town.

@StarSpring
What "misery" has Palo Alto's bike infrastructure caused? It seems to have worked well the times I've used it.

To get a true East-West connector that would easily connect Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City without the cities having to pay much they should link the CalTrain Electrification, HighSpeed Rail project to adding a FENCED off bike/walking trail alongside the tracks.

Redwood city has already done it in their downtown corridor and it makes it easy for folks to get to the train station.

The right of way is already owned.

Caltrain needs to be able to service the overhead power lines with a service road, so there is no reason it can't be made into an easy bike trail. Anyone joining the trail from a side street could go either direction to get to the closest transit station.