It more than four years since the last flurry of activity on the City of San Mateo's plans for the Peninsula Ave. interchange, as we noted here. There wasn't much support from regular people for the plan then and I doubt there is much more now, but they just keep trying. Per the city--San Mateo, not B'game:
We are proposing to relocate the existing U.S. Hwy 101 southbound on- and off-ramps from East Poplar Avenue to Peninsula Avenue in order to create a single, full-access interchange at Peninsula Avenue and Airport Boulevard. This would improve safety and traffic operations as well as reduce most typical travel times within the Peninsula Avenue interchange area for residents of both San Mateo and Burlingame.
Lots of eminent domain takings are needed for such a giant maneuver and the "improvements" in safety and traffic operations seem quite speculative to me. As I noted here almost four years ago, the slight changes at Poplar Ave. have worked wonders for improving that 101 on/off ramp. Simplifying it with a bit of median strip and fencing and voila. Now they want to close it? What's up with that?
San Mateo will make its pitch on-line next Wednesday, Jan. 27th at 6pm. You can register to get the link sent to you here and there are a lot of links to other official documents. If you live in the Lyon-Hoag neighborhood this is practically a mandatory meeting.
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