Q: I'm a devoted reader of your column and recall seeing this matter in your column earlier than. I believe probably the most harmful street in Santa Clara County is Arastradero, which runs from Alpine Highway in Portola Valley to Web page Mill Highway in Los Altos Hills.
This winding, circuitous street is utilized by commuters, bicyclists, equestrians, joggers, and lots of individuals leaving the well-known Alpine Inn of their vehicles after an extended day of celebrating and ingesting alcohol.
I’ve pushed this street since 1977 and it has turn into even turn into extra harmful as GPS redirects folks from a crowded 280 to Arastradero Highway. There's at all times somebody attempting to move a bicycle owner, which often finally ends up badly for the bicycle owner.
Greg Van Hauser
A: I perceive. You describe a really harmful combine of individuals and driving situations right here. Sadly, there may be not a lot deliberate now to attempt to ease these issues.
Q: You might be driving on Hostetter, which turns into Murphy, then Brokaw and finally Airport Boulevard. Why don’t they use one title for this street? It’s the identical bodily avenue.
Jeff Hack, San Jose
A: Some street segments and their names date again to the valley’s farming days. The roads might have crossed metropolis lands and county lands and when roads related, businesses might not have coordinated naming.
In the present day, the method for avenue naming and renaming is extremely coordinated. Renaming a street includes the publish workplace, hearth division, county, and metropolis constructing division. It requires public hearings, buy-in from affected property house owners, and a funding supply. Companies should publicize their new tackle, if it modifications. Deal with numbers on a street should be in sequence, so a whole bunch of property house owners may very well be affected, if street segments have been renamed to be constant.
Conserving street names as they're is commonly the popular path for the people who find themselves most impacted.
Q: I've one other query. To get via the intersection of Oakland and Important in San Jose, you should be within the left lane. As you attain Interstate 880, you're compelled to get on 880 north in case you are nonetheless in that lane. There isn't any warning about this till it’s too late, and infrequently site visitors is so heavy that it's harmful to vary lanes from the left lane.
Jeff Hack
A: Warnings saying “NB 880 Solely” start simply after a westbound driver crosses Ridder Park Drive, about 1,400 ft earlier than the intersection with the 880 on-ramp. There aren't any on-street warnings farther east to keep away from complicated drivers turning left onto Ridder Park Drive.
As there can be an upcoming repaving venture right here, the town is checking to see what enhancements may very well be made then to make issues clearer right here.
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