El Camino Real Safety & the Grand Boulevard Initiative
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El Camino Real — Belmont's primary commercial and transit spine — is simultaneously the city's most important economic corridor and one of its most dangerous roads for pedestrians and cyclists. With substantial housing planned along El Camino Real, officials are hoping a long-term redesign plan will include safety improvements and enhanced flow of traffic — and SamTrans has been working toward finalizing cost, construction schedule, and funding for the Grand Boulevard Initiative multimodal plan covering roughly 22 miles from San Mateo to Redwood City. The challenge is timing: housing development along the corridor is accelerating under SB 35 and SB 79, but the physical streetscape upgrades that would make the corridor safer and more walkable are years away from completion. The gap between new residents arriving in high-density buildings and the pedestrian infrastructure needed to safely serve them is a genuine safety and quality-of-life concern.
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