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NEWSLETTER. From the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition on August 23rd, 2023. Written By Scott Brown .
When Erin O’Connor Brown looks at the fresh band of paved bicycle and pedestrian trail that stretches out from behind her elementary school, she sees a future of healthier students and of safer, reduced traffic around campus.
“I am so excited for the new portion of the multi-use trail on the east side of Highway 1,” says Erin, principal at El Granada Elementary School, at the north end of Half Moon Bay. “Giving families the option to bike or walk to and from school can really impact health and traffic patterns. I can’t wait for the trail to extend even further south and serve a greater portion of our population.”
Called the Midcoast Multimodal Trail, the recently-opened route is an example of ways agencies are stretching limited funds to provide safer and more convenient alternatives – with regional impact – to heavily trafficked roadways.
For its role in promoting biking and safety, the Midcoast Multimodal Trail has been named the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition’s Project of the Year. The award was given at the 2023 Silicon Valley Bike Summit.
Spearheaded by the County of San Mateo, the trail stretches for just under a mile, from Coronado Street south to Mirada Road. It provides a safe and accessible alternative to Highway 1 for residents and workers to walk or bike between El Granada and Half Moon Bay, and it will ultimately link with other trails to provide an extended alternative running far along the coast, says Nicholas Calderon, Director of County Parks and Recreation.
More on the $4M Midcoast Multimodal Trail on Coastside Buzz
Author: Coastside Buzz
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It only goes a 1/2 mile, not all the way to Half Moon Bay! but to the east side of Miramar, and flooded before it even opened. Questioning the reason for the award unless it was the only project last year. Grateful when it connects to something!
Good to see the first section of the Midcoast alternative transportation bikepath and trail finally in after a few of us first suggested it and then tried to push it in MCC Park and Recreation Committee meetings over 30 years ago. Not so good to see the urban mindset once again dominating with the impermeable surface and, horribly, with the raised pink curbs at every crossing. Those curbs are actually an impediment and, in low light, a bit dangerous. And they are entirely unnecessary–superficial urban design gone wild. Now I see lights (!) on a segment of the trail. WTF! Every bit of every county-run project on the Midcoast requires inspection in detail by coastsiders if we are to have anything left of the special content and character of both our developed and undeveloped environment.