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Job well done on Foothill Expressway We need to commend the powers that be who cleared up the roads on El Monte Avenue and Foothill Expressway. After years of horrible traffic 4-6 p.m. daily at the intersection of San Antonio Road and Foothill Expressway, trying to get past the El Monte backup, it is finally a breeze. Surely we all recall the frustration of sitting in traffic to move the one block from San Antonio to El Monte. We want to thank the super planners who put in the extra lane where it was needed; the traffic flow could not be better. The short period of inconvenience during the co...

What’s the benefit of Foothill widening? Has anyone else pondered what benefit we have experienced in the road changes (on Foothill Expressway between San Antonio Road and El Monte Avenue) compared to the taxpayer cost and many months of construction and traffic inconvenience? Sure, the median has been made narrower, and the inside lanes widened, but to what end? The parts that have been widened seem to be unusable – they are still sectioned off with traffic barriers. What was the goal – to have an extra lane on either side for one block between El Monte and San Antonio? Also, the righ...

Divided council opts to regulate, rather than ban, boardinghouses Written by Bruce Barton The Los Altos City Council capped a two-hour-plus discussion March 9 over a proposed boardinghouse ordinance by rejecting an outright prohibition in favor of a regulatory one. The council majority directed city staff to work on several tweaks to the proposed regulations over the objections of two members who favored a ban. The discussion was fraught with myriad and complex legal questions regarding the extent to which the city could require and enforce rules about ...