Q For those hare-brained drivers who use Moorpark Avenue as if it were a freeway to access nearby schools, it must be brought to their attention that it is also a residential road and that local residents love life over speeding. We have had too many accidents to keep it a four-lane speedway. Residents agreed to the road-diet plan. If it takes a few more minutes to turn on and off Moorpark during busy commute times, so be it.

Murali Natarajan

San Jose

A Today, the defenders of the city’s most recent road diet rally behind the changes from a four-lane speedway from Saratoga Avenue to Williams Road to a configuration with two lanes, a center turning lane and bicycle lanes.

Q There have been numerous community meetings with San Jose City Council staff and Department of Transportation staff in the Strawberry Park neighborhood, where the Moorpark road diet has been installed. Neighborhood residents witness frequent crashes between cars going straight through on Moorpark, where there are plenty of speeders, and cars making left turns. The city could make a fortune by placing full-time traffic police there.

We worry when our children ride bikes on Moorpark and asked for the reconfiguration with marked bike lanes. To people who drive through Moorpark in haste, respect the laws and residents.

Steven Wang

San Jose

A And onto a bicyclist.

Q I have been bicycling the newly configured section of Moorpark for the past three years as part of my commute from Sunnyvale to near Saratoga and Interstate 280, and I would like to thank the city of San Jose for the additional striped buffer between the new bike lanes and traffic lanes. It gives bicyclists an additional measure of safety should it be necessary to avoid debris, the opening of car doors, pedestrians, etc. Hopefully this change will encourage more bicyclists (especially students at Queen of Apostles and Mitty) to use Moorpark.

In the meantime, I hope people give this new configuration a chance since it promises to increase safety for everyone.

Kathleen Meagher

Sunnyvale

A Yes, let’s give everyone some time to adjust to the change. And, everyone, slow down with so many schools here.

Q As my husband and I drove along Foxworthy Avenue recently, we both were so relieved to see that the pavement has been ground down and that work is in full gear to repair this street. I think your influence helped the cause to repair Foxworthy, and many of us Willow Glen residents are grateful. However, Booksin Avenue has been a mess for many years. Why can’t these paving machines on Foxworthy turn north on Booksin and keep going to Curtner Avenue?

Jenna Shaw

San Jose

A For now, no. The one-time funding used for Foxworthy and other side streets has been used up. If the state Legislature passes a new transportation bill or the Valley Transportation Authority gets a new sales tax on the 2016 ballot, repaving will get additional dollars. So there’s hope for Booksin.

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