u/pupupeepee

SamTrans Route 294 is the only direct fixed route linking Half Moon Bay to the bayside Peninsula, and it ends in a mall parking lot. Its east terminal is Hillsdale Boulevard at Edison Street, roughly a quarter mile of parking lot and arterial from the Hillsdale Caltrain platform. Westbound, the bus doesn't stop on El Camino Real at all. The route comes within two blocks of a Caltrain station and does not connect to it.

We ask SamTrans to deliver three things:

Move the terminal to a Caltrain station Retire the Hillsdale Boulevard at Edison Street terminal and end Route 294 at a Caltrain station: San Mateo, which already has a dedicated bus bay, or Hillsdale, served directly in both directions. Either way, the last stop should be within 500 feet of a train platform, in both directions, with shelter and wayfinding.

Time the transfer Schedule and publish 294 trips that meet specific Caltrain departures. An hourly bus that misses the train by four minutes is not a connection.

Fix the run time Saturday westbound trips are scheduled at 45 minutes for a trip that takes 31 minutes eastbound. Identify where Route 294 loses time on SR-92 and in San Mateo, and work with Caltrans and C/CAG on transit priority to get it back.

If you'd prefer it keeping going to Hillsdale Mall I'd be curious to hear why!

I moved to Novato in 2023 after living in San Rafael for over a decade. My work is in SF and I have to arrive by 8am. When I lived in San Rafael, I could leave my house between 7:20am-7:30am and get to work on time.

My Novato home is just 10 miles north of my former San Rafael home. The first year I lived here, my commute was about 45 mins to 1 hour each way. Fast forward three years, and my commute time has doubled to an unsustainable 1.5-2hrs each way. That’s a whopping 3-4 hours spent sitting in traffic on the 101 to drive just approx. 26 miles between my house and my job in SF. It often takes well over an hour just to drive the 10 miles between the DeLong exit in Novato and the Central San Rafael exit. My husband works in Terra Linda, San Rafael, and his round-trip commute is also at least 2 hours long.

What is going on???

I figure that this is on-theme, let me know if it is not!

The stop sign wasn't my first choice of pedestrian safety treatment, but it was the city's. I'll take it 😄

A study published this week in Transportation Research Part A puts a price on un-priced driving costs: crashes, air pollution, climate damage, noise, and the land taken up by roads and parking.

Here is a further breakdown of those un-priced costs.

The first thing I would do if I was a billionaire is I would hire a fleet of people to drive up and down 101 and 280 every morning and evening to get in front of the tech worker busses that are parked in the fast lane and have them just go really slow in front of the busses until they get over into the right lane lol

I think it would be a good public service.

Plaintiffs say the bike lanes violate the 2026 Bicycle Plan and run contrary to Measure FF, a parcel tax to improve streets and sidewalks.

The full complaint (PDF): https://drive.google.com/file/d/15cs6x8n6djBGnVq4Ox9nB8wdv5aqKmRh/view

I keep experiencing (& observing) near-misses at intersections because a jacked-up F-250 or Silverado is parked right at the corner and blocks sightlines both ways.

Is this a real local shift or just something I've started noticing?

What's driving the change in vehicles in town? Is there some sudden influx of tradespeople into town, or just a style preference?

And has anyone else had visibility or parking problems because of it?