The Daily Journal (San Mateo County), Samantha Weigel, 3/7/15. "Caltrans and San Mateo address dangerous merge: State 92 and El Camino Real interchange project moves ahead."
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| In Pacifica we call this parking lot, "no traffic". |
.... As the El Camino Real exit is close to the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge and Highway 101, traffic impacts are already on the rise due to the area’s job and population growth. While the interchange project will not completely alleviate bumper-to-bumper conditions, Caltrans spokeswoman Gidget Navarro said it should help.
“There are already issues during a.m./p.m. peak hours with
bottlenecking and safety issues due to short weave distances. The
project will not totally eliminate future capacity increase, but the
design will ease traffic congestions,” Navarro wrote in an email. Furthermore, state-mandated analysis determined the project
wouldn’t have a significant impact on the environment and will provide
substantial improvements such as decreases in travel time and increases
in service capacity, Navarro said. ....The current design is about 65 percent complete and Caltrans
hopes to begin construction in July 2016 with the project completed
around April 2018, Navarro said. Read more.
Note: San Mateo off-ramp (H-92 to El Camino Real photograph from San Francisco Chronicle/Evan Sernoffsky, 2/20/15, "Bay Area's riskiest on-ramps keep hearts racing," includes video, 2:16 minutes.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
2 comments:
The City of San Mateo asked and is working with Caltrans on this dangerous part of Highway 92 and Highway 82 (El Camino Real.
Pacifica asks for Caltrans help then bows down to the hippies and noobees then tries to run Caltrans out of town.
We're just one of many potential projects on the CalTrans millenial calendar. That's how these things happen. Some of those projects will take seed and grow and others will not. It should be up to the locals. Conduct your campaigns, pro and con, throw some cash on it, and let's vote!
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