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Article #102Re: San Mateo <-> Palo Alto
From: Ben Pfaff
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:52
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:52
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Don Freeman <freemand@cosmoslair.com> writes: > On 6/7/2011 2:54 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> david@fetter.org (David Fetter) writes: >> >>> I'm about to move to San Mateo for a shorter commute to work in Palo >>> Alto. Is it dangerously crazy to ride on 82 (El Camino Real) for that >>> stretch? >> >> Dangerously crazy? No. I commute from Redwood City to Palo Alto >> on El Camino every day. >> >> Is there a better way? Maybe. You might find that you like Old >> County (and the other names for that road) and Middlefield Road >> better. That was usually the route I took when I lived in San >> Mateo. > > That's what I did when I lived in San Mateo as well. That was one of > my excursions to go to Palo Alto. I would take Old Country Rd (back > then I could cut through the Bay Meadows (RIP) parking lot and connect > with OCR at the exit. It ends at Redwood City and at that point I > would transverse the railroad tracks and finish up by using ECR. I > never tried using Middlefield though, sounds like that would be a > better option then my cutting over to El Camino. Middlefield is OK until you get to Palo Alto. In much of Palo Alto itself, it's a bit narrow for my comfort, so I often switch to Bryant Street at that point. -- "MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit." --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference
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X-Google-Thread: 10decc,5bdab4b952dfd943 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida51cdb3390,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) Newsgroups: ba.bicycles Subject: Re: San Mateo <-> Palo Alto Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:52:06 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <87wrgwuayh.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> References: <AsednRzJNL-lDHPQnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@speakeasy.net> <877h8xtiie.fsf@blp.benpfaff.org> <4def022f$0$2181$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1307512322 20391 127.0.0.1 (8 Jun 2011 05:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L3KcYi9w5ikSfHFMwvut7Q1cJ6o=