Crime & Safety
If You Turn On This Menlo Park Street, You'll Get A Ticket
Don't bother turning on this popular Menlo Park street unless you want a ticket.

MENLO PARK, CA -- Take this as a warning. You cannot turn on this Peninsula street and if you do, you'll get a ticket.
KPIX 5 reported that a "popular shortcut" in Menlo Park is no longer legal.
"The new traffic restrictions make it illegal to turn right from Chester, Durham and O’Keefe to Willow Road between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays," the news station reported. "There are also no left turns from Woodland to Baywood during the same time window on weekdays."
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Starting this week, Menlo Park police officers began issuing tickets for any drivers who ignored the "warning signs restricting turns," the news station reported.
"It’s one of the Peninsula’s worst traffic hotspots, only made worse by a massive construction project to modernize the interchange of Willow and Highway 101," KPIX 5 reported.
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