Who's up first! Once the MVPD were notified they should have taken a leadership roll at this busy and dangerous intersection. Treating this like any other intersection was was probably not a good call.

I unfortunately participated in this colossal mess! It took 45 minutes when I should have taken 15. No traffic guidance, so aggressive drives made it even more challenging. I hope something is done to take sure that PG&E takes responsibility for avoiding this in the future

This entire article is pointless because for years the MVPD policy has been to not provide traffic control at intersections during power outages.

“It is not common practice for us to provide traffic control when signal outages occur," Nelson said

Maybe the article should be focusing on why this policy exists and if it is something that is acceptable to Mountain View residents. Last I checked, MVPD still works for US, the TAXPAYERS of Mountain View.

Despite the call levels being so high that it jammed the 911 lines, they still refused to do anything to remedy the situation. They literally would not take any ownership whatsoever. So, what difference would it have made if PG&E gave any notice???

Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Because MVPD does not stoop to the level of directing traffic…….

Certainly a horrible experience for motorists, but I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for pedestrians trying to navigate that intersection. Shouldn't MVPD have done a minimum of traffic control for them?

Either a generator could have been used to operate the traffic lights to some level during the outage, or temporary signals could have been placed at the intersection to provide indication of the 4 way stop light status at a minimum.

For the police department to have done this would have required more advance notice. It's ridiculous for the process not to have informed Mountain View PD at least two weeks in advance. PG&E should be doing this in such a situation. Just more of their irresponsibility.

Our most fatal intersection? The one that should really have ramps instead of a four-way multi-lane stop?

And no traffic control?

This sounds plain dangerous. And negligent on the part of all organizations involved.