For the 15% or so of Caltrain riders who use a bicycle to get to, from and around the station area, improvements are coming in San Jose and San Francisco, and you can participate in refining these improvements.
In San Jose, on August 13, the City transportation department is hosting a meeting to review a set of bike improvements west of Downtown, including bike lanes on Stockton from Alameda to Emory, Julian between the Alameda and Guadalupe River Trail, and improved bike lanes on Park from Market to Santa Clara. Click here for the full list of improvements. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 6:00 PM, Gardner Community Center, 520 W. Virginia St.
In San Francisco, SFMTA is working on designs for protected bike lanes on the Embarcardero. Share your thoughts with this SFBC survey and sign up to get involved. http://www.sfbike.org/news/protected-bikeways-planned-for-the-embarcadero/
I’m a Veteran who uses the Downtown San Mateo Caltrain Station, to commute to the Menlo Park and Palo Alto V.A., everyday, and I ride my bike on Saturdays because theirs no bus or shuttle on the weekends to get to the V.A. Palo Alto Hospital, on my return train trip back home to the Downtown San Mateo Station on the Northbound platform we have to exit the platform at 1st Street at the Downtown stop, but quite a few people hop over the railing to get into my neighborhood, back before when this project got built, people like Tom Zuffi’s Family had requested better access from the Northbound train platform, into and out of the North Central Neighborhood, soon the derelict Blue and White Laundry and vacant lot next to the creek at the Southbound platform is scheduled for redevelopment they’re planning to cover the old creek and build a dining area and put in more parking to bring in more cars through a already congested area, and this area has remained blighted for as long as I can remember, because of socioeconomic and politics nothing every gets done right for my neighborhood the city needs to take over the piece of land build a tunnel like at the California/Alma Street CalTrains Station and fix this to shorten the walk from Cypress Street so people would be able to get from my side of town instead of walking all the way to First Avenue, but the people who own the business they help the City with the Revenue and I understand the necessity but I do not see any common good, Please let their be oversight. ~DG