While the governing board of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District agreed on June 28 to pay half the cost of two pedestrian-activated stoplights near its Menlo Park fire station on Middlefield Road, coming up with the money may have been the easy part. Local residents asked the fire district to help make walking and bicycling safer in Menlo Park by adding two push-button-activated stoplights on Middlefield Road near Linfield Drive and Santa Monica Avenue. They got exactly what they asked for at the Tuesday night fire board meeting. The board voted unanimously to provide up to $175,000 for the lights, and even authorized paying Menlo Park's half of the cost up front in return for the city's promise to repay the fire district in the next fiscal year.