Burlingame's California Drive Project

[M Velasco]

Burlingame is about to restripe California Drive between Burlingame and Millbrae to upgrade its bike facility.

Project website is here.

Project plans here.

A couple of interesting design elements.  

1. One is "Door Zone" bike stencils.  I've never seen that before and curious how it'll work.
   
2. Another is 'bike-friendly grate' designs.  I still don't know what it means but can take a photo once done.  Doing this allows the city to convert an existing 8' shoulder area that has two large grates to a 5' bike lane with bike-friendly grates.
   
3. Another is one-way Bike Blvd stencils on a narrow two-way street.  Never seen that before either.
   
4. There's a section where the northbound bike lane is only 5.5' but the southbound bike lane is 8' plus a 6' buffer = 14' total.  I wish they could have shifted a foot from one side to the other.
   

This is info for people who use this key north-south San Mateo bike route.  The City is no longer taking input and is prepared to stripe in August.  Will share photos when done.  It's a pretty big deal and investment of $450K on a well-used, inhospitable corridor between Millbrae Bart/Caltrain and Broadway in Burlingame.