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Wow! 28 cars dumping onto a tiny road. Hard to see this idea ending well... https://www.google.com/maps/place/11511+Summit+Wood+Rd,+Los+Altos+Hills,+CA+94022/@

Wow! 28 cars dumping onto a tiny road. Hard to see this idea ending well... https://www.google.com/maps/place/11511+Summit+Wood+Rd,+Los+Altos+Hills,+CA+94022/@37.353741,-122.1368223,368m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x808fb1af25da643f:0x6fa5178b0173b743!8m2!3d37.3537368!4d-122.135728!16s%2Fg%2F11c1gg34v_ https://www.google.com/maps/place/11511+Summit+Wood+Rd,+Los+...

malermeister 4y ago
Maybe we should stop overrelying on cars and build some public transport while we're at it?
- acchow 4y ago
  The Bay Area has absolutely perfect weather for walking and cycling. Wish we would design more for that
  - wrycoder 4y ago
    Have you tried biking from San Francisco to Mountain View?
    - acchow 4y ago
      Yes. Bayshore and La Honda, etc. The cycling in nature is gorgeous. But the cities themselves aren't very bike friendly.
      - wrycoder 4y ago
        Biking La Honda is strenuous and risky. Few commuters would do that.
- refurb 4y ago
  In a suburban area far from a major city? Not going to happen. Even other countries with great public transit dont do have that.
  - eddsh1994 4y ago
    Have you ever tried to use public transport to get from Los Altos to San Jose? Any other developed country trumps public transport in the middle of the Bay. My wife, who loves public transport, gave up almost immediately when we moved here - I just Uber but would use public transport if available. Cycling just can't get you far enough sadly.
    - refurb 4y ago
      Thats my point. Its not reasonable to expect rapid public transit in a place like PA. You could run buses, but youve just turned a 30 min commute by car into a 1.5hr bus ride with multiple bus changes. Transit only works in medium to high density cities.
      - CPLX 4y ago
        Visit Switzerland some time it’ll blow your mind. Basically every square inch of that country is connected to convenient and frequent public transit. And it’s one of the most naturally inhospitable places for building anything you can imagine, we’re talking towns on the side of cliffs and so on. But if you’re in a tiny village at minimum there’s a bus that connects to rail, frequently, and that rail is frequent and highly reliable and goes literally everywhere. It’s possible and we have the resources to do it too we just don’t.
        refurb 4y ago
        There are buses in PA that connect to Caltrain. Turning a 30 min commute by car into 1.5hr by transit means few uses it.
        CPLX 4y ago
        Yeah that’s not how the Swiss system works at all though is the point.
  - malermeister 4y ago
gotoeleven 4y ago
You know that these 28 cars are unlikely to be driving all at the same time right? Most of these neighborhoods you could 10x the traffic without anyone noticing.
- ed25519FUUU 4y ago
  In CA there’s at least one or two cars per bedroom of housing. They’ll be parking all along the street. But so what? This is a last ditch effort to beef up the critically low housing supply, not intended to be the ideal solution.
ryan93 4y ago
Funny to imagine all 28 people leaving for work everyday at the exact same time.
- tennisflyi 4y ago
  I guess. Like they all have the same length commute?
epistasis 4y ago
Thats not many cars, and it's a short road. If each car takes 5 seconds to pass a particular point, that's only a few minutes overall of cars in a day. I would suggest that Los Altos Hills should start enabling transit if their roads are overloaded. Or even better, they should have done some planning.
acdha 4y ago
Pretty sure you could fill that entire place with people who would like the 10 minute bike commute to Foothill College. The weather will be fine for that like 360 days a year.

malermeister 4y ago

Maybe we should stop overrelying on cars and build some public transport while we're at it?

acchow 4y ago
The Bay Area has absolutely perfect weather for walking and cycling. Wish we would design more for that
- wrycoder 4y ago
  Have you tried biking from San Francisco to Mountain View?
  - acchow 4y ago
    Yes. Bayshore and La Honda, etc. The cycling in nature is gorgeous. But the cities themselves aren't very bike friendly.
    - wrycoder 4y ago
      Biking La Honda is strenuous and risky. Few commuters would do that.
refurb 4y ago
In a suburban area far from a major city? Not going to happen. Even other countries with great public transit dont do have that.
- eddsh1994 4y ago
  Have you ever tried to use public transport to get from Los Altos to San Jose? Any other developed country trumps public transport in the middle of the Bay. My wife, who loves public transport, gave up almost immediately when we moved here - I just Uber but would use public transport if available. Cycling just can't get you far enough sadly.
  - refurb 4y ago
    Thats my point. Its not reasonable to expect rapid public transit in a place like PA. You could run buses, but youve just turned a 30 min commute by car into a 1.5hr bus ride with multiple bus changes. Transit only works in medium to high density cities.
    - CPLX 4y ago
      Visit Switzerland some time it’ll blow your mind. Basically every square inch of that country is connected to convenient and frequent public transit. And it’s one of the most naturally inhospitable places for building anything you can imagine, we’re talking towns on the side of cliffs and so on. But if you’re in a tiny village at minimum there’s a bus that connects to rail, frequently, and that rail is frequent and highly reliable and goes literally everywhere. It’s possible and we have the resources to do it too we just don’t.
      - refurb 4y ago
        There are buses in PA that connect to Caltrain. Turning a 30 min commute by car into 1.5hr by transit means few uses it.
        CPLX 4y ago
        Yeah that’s not how the Swiss system works at all though is the point.
- malermeister 4y ago

gotoeleven 4y ago

You know that these 28 cars are unlikely to be driving all at the same time right? Most of these neighborhoods you could 10x the traffic without anyone noticing.

ed25519FUUU 4y ago
In CA there’s at least one or two cars per bedroom of housing. They’ll be parking all along the street. But so what? This is a last ditch effort to beef up the critically low housing supply, not intended to be the ideal solution.

ryan93 4y ago

Funny to imagine all 28 people leaving for work everyday at the exact same time.

tennisflyi 4y ago
I guess. Like they all have the same length commute?

epistasis 4y ago

Thats not many cars, and it's a short road. If each car takes 5 seconds to pass a particular point, that's only a few minutes overall of cars in a day. I would suggest that Los Altos Hills should start enabling transit if their roads are overloaded. Or even better, they should have done some planning.

acdha 4y ago

Pretty sure you could fill that entire place with people who would like the 10 minute bike commute to Foothill College. The weather will be fine for that like 360 days a year.