Q: When attempting to use the cellphone waiting area near the San Jose airport, I found it overflowing with waiting vehicles, and I ended up in a restaurant parking lot.
Then I noticed that well over half of the vehicles in the cellphone area had Uber stickers in their windows. This seems like a misuse of the parking area for a commercial purpose and is wrong in so many ways.
Are there any actions being taken to fix this?
Deane Judd
Hollister
A: You’ll like this. Airport officials will soon open a second cellphone waiting area opposite 1387 Airport Boulevard. The lot will be placed into service in the next few weeks once all signs have been posted.
It will have about two dozen stalls with a 30-minute time limit. Commercial vehicles like Uber will not be permitted to park there. Since this is on airport grounds, the airport has jurisdiction over this area and will be in a better position for monitoring and enforcement.
That’s not the case on the Airport Parkway area, which is off airport grounds east of Highway 87. Cellphone users can still wait at the curb free for 30 minutes.
Q: It looks like there will be an extra exit lane from Interstate 280 north to Stevens Creek Boulevard that turns left. This would mean that those who are exiting from Lawrence Expressway north to make a right turn on Stevens Creek may need to cross two or perhaps three lanes over a very short distance.
Is that going to be the new scenario? Things are quite bad right now and drivers find it tough to switch across even one lane.
Sira Sudhindranath
San Jose
A: They are adding a left-turn lane, and a short right-turn lane. People exiting Lawrence who wish to turn right onto Stevens Creek will have just one lane to cross.
Q: Thank you for including the comment from Michael Foster. Laugh out loud funny. …
Thanks, Michael Foster for making me laugh before I have even finished my first cup of coffee.
Mandlyn McClellan and Bob Wall
A: Michael suggested renaming Caltrain to “The Gilroy And San Francisco Area Rapid Transit,” or GASFART,” which made another reader chime in.
Q: Scatological transit acronyms are always fun to dream up. When I worked in San Francisco in the 1980s, somebody ran private commute buses from Fairfield that were called “Fairfield Area Rapid Transit.” Their slogan painted on the back was “Got Gas Pains? Try … .”
Mike Brady
Folsom
A: Time to stop farting around.
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