Will Highway 101 lose a lane to express drivers?
QIs another lane being added for the express lane project on Highway 101 through San Mateo County or will a current lane be taken away? Kent Lue
AToo early to say for sure on how best to convert 101 to express lanes from Whipple Avenue in Redwood City to north of Interstate 380. Some of the measures under consideration include converting existing carpool lanes to express lanes, adding new express lanes or removing auxiliary (merging) lanes between interchanges to create room for through lanes.
Officials in San Mateo County will conduct two public meetings on this. The first is Wednesday, May 31, at 6:30 p.m. at San Mateo City Hall, 330 W. 20th Ave. The second will be held at Redwood City’s City Hall, 1071 Middlefield Road, on June 5 at 6:30 p.m.
Go to www.dot.ca.gov/ d4/101managedlanes for more information.
QConstruction is humming along at the Highway 92-El Camino Real interchange. Can’t wait until it is done next March.
Tom Pohl Half Moon Bay
AThe $18 million job will widen and reconfigure the ramps to a partial cloverleaf. It will also widen the sidewalk on El Camino and install bicycle lanes between ramp intersections.
Best of all: The work should be done in less than a year. That’s warp speed.
QMontague Expressway between Interstate 680 and Capitol Expressway is a mess and getting worse. The lane lines past Milpitas Boulevard and Capitol are very poor or nonexistent.
As you probably know, Montague is being raised at Milpitas Boulevard and BART/VTA are still not finished with road work in the same area.
Please use your magic powers to get the lanes marked properly. It is a free-for-all, and with everyone on cellphones, it makes it very dangerous for myself and thousands of others who use this road every day.
Ken Sullivan Soquel
ATo the rescue arrives Ron-The-County-Man: “We will notify VTA of the pavement condition so they can make repairs ASAP. County striping crews will re-establish the striping.” Q Those LED streetlights in San Jose are sure nice. How are we coming along with the changeover?
Buzz
ACity transportation officials have hit the pause button. Crews have converted 24,500 streetlights to LEDs, but there are 40,000 more to go. The city needs to come up with $35 million for the remaining conversions.
QWork has been finished at Stevens Creek Boulevard and Calvert Drive for at least a month — except for the sidewalk. It is dangerous for bikes and pedestrians. Why the delay? Cathy Thaler
AThis piece of sidewalk is on hold until the San Jose Water Co. relocates a fire hydrant and PG&E moves a 6-inch gas line. The fire hydrant could be moved soon, but the PG&E work is still up in the air. The area is clearly closed, but people still walk through there. Instead, pedestrians should use the sidewalk to the north of Stevens Creek.