Q Over the past months I have watched a new office building and parking garage being built right by the Highway 17 exit in Campbell on Creekside Way. What has been amazing is watching the construction of the parking garage that keeps getting taller (it’s been dubbed “The Winchester Mystery Parking Garage” in the office) and now stands at eight stories.

The obvious concern is that this odd intersection between the 17 exit and Hamilton Avenue is crazy with the current level of traffic, and everyone is wondering what happens when eight floors’ worth of cars are added to the mix.

Any plans to improve this area traffic-wise in the future?

Jim Gough

Los Gatos

A Some. A new traffic signal will be installed at the existing hotel driveway south of the off-ramp. This will allow office and hotel traffic to enter Creekside Way from the hotel driveway. The new signal will be synchronized with the two signals (i.e., Hamilton/Creekside and Creekside/Highway 17 northbound off-ramp) to the north. The parking garage will have its own driveway south of the existing hotel driveway, but there will not be a signal here.

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If you want prompt DMV action, get out your credit card: Roadshow That’s about it. Creekside Way is just one of multiple corridors that converge here and compete for green time at the traffic signals in the area. The highest priority is traffic on Hamilton, which already exceeds 65,000 vehicles per day. The second-highest priority is the off-ramp traffic.

The corridor of lowest priority is traffic on Creekside Way.

So the city has set the signals to maintain coordination along Hamilton first, and provide coordination between the Highway 17 off-ramp and Creekside at Hamilton second. Northbound Creekside gets whatever remaining green time there is after the off-ramp is served.

Q One evening around 7 p.m., I was waiting for the Winchester train at the Second and Santa Clara light-rail stop. A car made a turn from Santa Clara Street onto the light-rail tracks. The next car followed the first car onto the tracks. I did not hear any crashes, so I presume both cars escaped safely.

I think this is a bigger problem than it is generally recognized to be, and I do not think it is caused by simple stupidity. I think it’s a visibility problem, especially after dark.

This is not the first time I have seen a car on the tracks at Second and Santa Clara. It is the first time I have seen two in immediate succession.

C. O’Rourke

A The Valley Transportation Authority says it has no record of any incidents at Second and Santa Clara streets that are a result of cars turning onto the tracks. But the city recently installed large planters in an attempt to clearly separate the rail corridor from the road at the turn onto Second Street.

For light rail, the transit mall is a 10-mph zone with a large variety of factors for operators to contend with. They operate at this slow speed so they have enough time to respond to situations such as bikes, pedestrians, pedi cabs, dogs and most certainly cars.

Anyone else seen a problem here?

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