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Staff advises against full Middlefield Road 'road diet' after traffic study; residents press for permanent protected bike lanes
Summary
City engineers presented the Middlefield Road Street Project conceptual design and a traffic analysis showing intersection capacity and queuing impacts under a corridor‑wide road diet; staff recommended against a full diet, while residents and cycling advocates urged permanent protected lanes and narrower vehicle lane widths.
City engineers presented a concept design April 29 for the Middlefield Road Street Project (Project 2201) and concluded that a corridor‑wide reduction from two travel lanes per direction to one each (a full "road diet") would degrade intersection operations and substantially increase vehicle queuing under the city’s traffic model.
"For these above reasons, staff do not recommend implementing a road diet from Middlefield," the project lead said after summarizing the capacity, level‑of‑service and queuing analyses carried out on segmented portions of the corridor.
The presentation reviewed the project history and grant funding (including OBAG/Measure B and housing incentive grants), a proposed scope that includes resurfacing, protected bikeways, intersection improvements and a proposed…
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