What will happen on Stanford football game days?
For Stanford game day traffic, typically occurring on five Saturdays yearly, City staff will work with peers at Stanford to create a good game day traffic management plan. This would include encouragement for fans to use alternative roadways such as Page Mill and Oregon Expressways, which have excess capacity on Saturdays. Public transit use (including Caltrain, VTA, and Samtrans), “early bird” and “late stayer” incentives, would also be encouraged. Palo Alto Police would continue the practice of converting Embarcadero to one-way operation from Middlefield to El Camino for peak times on game days. City staff will also evaluate adding additional “green time” at traffic signals for Embarcadero traffic on game days.
