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Comment on How will new San Jose Tamien development affect access to Caltrain station? by Sarah Cooke

Sarah Cooke — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:35:25 +0000

Neil, Although city park money paid for the land, over half of the new city park was given over to the Rocketship Charter school—-the third Rocketship in the same neighborhood–within 10 blocks! The local school district is suing the land use decision. The only other park within a mile is a postage stamp–a former house lot. Tamien Caltrain Station is in Washington neighborhood–high crime, high gang–not Willow Glen. Many people think it is wrong to give away parkland, don’t you?

Comment on How will new San Jose Tamien development affect access to Caltrain station? by evans

evans — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:54:23 +0000

From Tamien, Caltrain runs 2 train per hours in weekday peak direction but departing uneven train to train spacing as 5:50, 5:56, 6:49, 6:56, 7:10, 7:47, 7:56, 8:33. If there are 2 train/hour, they should make this every 30 mintues like 5:50, 6:20, 6:50……
I would like to see this kind of improvement which don’t require additional cost.

Comment on How will new San Jose Tamien development affect access to Caltrain station? by Adina Levin

Adina Levin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:18:44 +0000

At the most of Caltrain stations, a sizeable major of riders get to the station without driving and parking. But not at Tamien. At Tamien, most people drive and park according to Caltrain’s numbers. Caltrain is planning an origin/destination study in the coming year, so they will have information about whether people are driving to Tamien even though they could conveniently walk or bike or transit, or whether they are coming from further away.

I don’t personally have a strong opinion about how access should be provided to Tamien. The stations I use most often are Menlo Park, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Mountain View and sometimes Diridon. But people who do use Tamien should pay attention and weigh in about whether and how the upcoming changes near the station will affect station access.

Comment on How will new San Jose Tamien development affect access to Caltrain station? by Neil

Neil — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:01:43 +0000

Oh, I’m not saying the capacity issues don’t need to be addressed (through adding cars and eventual electrification), just that I’m sure the issue of removing a parking lot is going to be brought up. It really shouldn’t be an issue though because the station is already quite well served by transit.

Comment on How will new San Jose Tamien development affect access to Caltrain station? by Adina Levin

Adina Levin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:41:18 +0000

Caltrain is working on adding a 6th car on the bullet trains in the coming year to add more capacity. Rather than accepting Caltrain’s capacity issues as a hard limit, I think it is better to encourage more ways to overcome the capacity problems. The region is growing – if transit can’t keep up, than driving mode share will grow, which will be worse for the environment, traffic congestion, and health.

Comment on How will new San Jose Tamien development affect access to Caltrain station? by Neil

Neil — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:10:19 +0000

Looking at the plans, I think the same level of pedestrian access will still be maintained if the project is built. Though I do have a couple points:
1) In response to anyone who would argue that taking away parking might discourage ridership, Caltrain isn’t exactly in a position where they should, or need to, be trying to attract riders; they’re pretty much at capacity as is.
2) I’m predicting there is going to be an intense NIMBY response, residents of Willow Glen are terrible in that regard, and there seemed to backlash to a school (and a public park for godssake) being proposed for the next lot over.

Comment on Palo Alto Bond Poll shows voters don’t want to pay for parking structures by Today’s Headlines | Streetsblog San Francisco

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Comment on Palo Alto civic hack project creates mobile parking visualization app by Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:24:30 +0000

Hi! I’m a transportation planner who manages a great deal of manual-count parking surveys for public sector clients and this could potentially speed up our work considerably. Could you provide the contact information for the developers so we could set up a meeting or webinar to discuss the tool in depth?

Thanks so much,

Gordon