Very happy to see these planned improvements along California Street! Thank you City Council Transportation Committee and everyone who has worked on this project idea.

So people have to die before the city does anything. We are better than that!
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Happy to hear about these improvements, but I can't help wondering why it took MORE THAN 10 YEARS since the last pedestrian death to make this happen . . . wow.

"One person’s traffic-calming is another person’s extra minute on their commute"
It will be far more than an extra minute after its fully implemented, it will at least increase the commute by 5-10x that depending on the time of day.

Just remove the street parking all together, that really seems like a better solution.

If they really want to calm things, why not add some humps on California street like those on Villa street, make them so big that traffic needs to slow to 5 mile per hour as well. We all love the nails and other debris that fails out of the vehicles that go over them along with being blinded by oncoming traffic at night as the opposing car goes over humps. Also lets not notch them for emergency vehicles either so we force them to slow for emergency response calls too.

California Street runs straight through one of the densest residential neighborhoods of Santa Clara County. Residents need to bike and walk to schools, churches, parks, teen and senior centers, and local businesses as part of their daily lives. California Street as it exists today is wide and straight and encourages speeding well past the 35 mph speed limit creating a hostile and dangerous environment. The California Street project will help reduce automobile speeds and prevent fatal collisions in the future as well as encourage more biking, walking, and perhaps bus riding. Yes, this will mean drivers will need to slow down and it will take a little longer to drive down California Street. For those drivers who are frustrated by this, please keep in mind the positives for our community.

You can read more about the need for traffic calming on California Street here:
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Waste of taxpayer money.

Why does it take years to improve locations of fatal accidents?
The term "swift: is not in the City of Mountain View vocabulary.
Now imagine improving non fatality intersections like Grant Rd and Sleeper Ave.: almost a decade. In meetings regarding that one I learned that funding was never an issue. So why does everything take years?

Reducing California St. traffic to one lane in each direction will cause traffic bottlenecks. Too many people; not enough resources. That road will never be an "urban village" because it's nothing but low-rent apartments.

Budget is $30 million. $30,000,000 / 6,336 feet ≈ $4,739.68 per foot
The cost per foot is approximately $4,739.68. (Thanks ChatGBT)
"To save up for it, maybe we just do a block at a time, in smaller chunks,” said Public Works Director Dawn Cameron".
Revisiting a job site is much more expensive and will cost way more than $30 million.
There is already a clearly marked bike lane that bicyclists can use, single file. I ride single file.
What Tracy of Greater Streets organization (501c3) wants is not feasible. People need to commute by car to/from work at a pace faster than 15mph. There are already 6 stoplights between Showers and Shoreline. Speed is already tempered.
Chunk example? Observe California Ave at 5pm between Shoreline and Castro. Notice the stressed out bottleneck, it backs up into the intersection. Notice the revenue-raising officer hiding, monitoring rolling stops.
No, no to this expense. It is a waste of our tax payer money. Roses have thorns, not possible to live risk free.