Today the City of Alameda released a new report outlining past, planned, and proposed street safety improvements around 22 K-12 public and private Alameda schools. You can read the whole report or just look up your child’s school. The report also outlines the City’s efforts to provide crossing guards, support street safety education, and encourage students to walk and bike.

Read the Street Safety Improvements at K-12 Schools report

The meeting agenda for the City Council/School Board Subcommittee next Wednesday, October 27, at 2:00 pm, includes a presentation about traffic safety near schools.

Download the City Council/School Board agenda

After an extensive public engagement process, traffic data analyses, and discussions with stakeholders, staff developed recommendations for the future of the Slow Streets program:

• Maintain the existing 4.7 miles of Slow Streets for one year, while making select minor enhancements and addressing site-specific issues as they arise.
• Prioritize finishing the Active Transportation Plan in 2022, which will provide direction on the top priorities for walking and bicycling improvements, including Slow Streets.
• Leverage the repaving program to further improve the Slow Streets along the street segments scheduled in 2022.

The Transportation Commission will consider these recommendations on October 27, and then they'll move to the City Council on November 16. The community survey results and data analysis summaries are on the program web page.

The program began in April 2020 to respond to the pandemic by creating safer places to be physically active and get around. Today, 4.7 miles of Alameda's 125 miles of public roads (or 4%) are Slow Streets.