Atherton — an expensive, exclusive town — has one of the highest pedestrian death rates in Bay Area

The pedestrian death rate on El Camino Real along Atherton, California is more than double and triple its neighboring cities. Victims’ families say it’s an…

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@aftd ECR thru Atherton is pretty miserable for bikes, and there's a not a lot of alternatives. (Say if you're starting on ECR at the south end of RWC, and you want to get to MP). There's some side streets you can take, but eventually you're forced back.

Used to live a few blocks over on the RWC side of the border. Always called the ppl on the other side "Athholes".

The only nice thing I can say about that town is that on a warm night, if you have enough lights on your bike, it's kind of fun to ride around in the pitch dark, in a spooky sort of way.

We also used to like driving around there at night with the windows down, blasting #RATM.