El Camino is definitely a car oriented byway, where the pedestrian is a second class citizen. Through most of the towns it passes through on the Peninsula, it has what I can only describe as an automobile-scale commercial "strip" quality.

But for the most part the cities are much more pedestrian scale and walkable just a short distance away from this road. "Never judge a city by its El Camino Real"; it's usually one of the least pleasant parts...