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The City is starting to work on transitioning three Slow Streets to Neighborhood Greenways, both in the near term and the mid term. Here are some updates!
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Speed cushions are being proposed for Versailles Ave between San Jose Ave and Calhoun St, to be installed in Fall 2024, as part of this year's pavement resurfacing project. Speed cushions slow traffic speeds and improve safety for people walking, bicycling and driving. They would support early implementation of a portion of the Versailles Neighborhood Greenway (see definition further below), which will eventually replace the Versailles Slow Street. Within the next year, the City will work with the community on designing the full Neighborhood Greenway for Versailles. However, this year’s resurfacing project provides an opportunity to accelerate implementation by installing traffic calming elements sooner. Once the cushions are installed, the City proposes to remove the Slow Streets barricades from this section of Versailles. |
Virtual Community Meeting:
Wednesday, June 12 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Zoom link
Telephone: 669-900-9128
Meeting ID: 824 2929 2324
Email comments: transportation@alamedaca.gov
Staff are working to fulfill the 2024 Transportation Work Plan, which includes:
- In 2024, beginning construction to convert at least one Slow Street to a Neighborhood Greenway, and if time allows, staff will pursue more than one conversion this year.
- By the end of 2025, complete quick-build conversion of the three Slow Streets.
We have begun working with a consultant on the Neighborhood Greenways designs, community outreach approach and developing an implementation timeline. We'll be sharing more soon and creating a project web page. In the meantime, please sign up for our Neighborhood Greenways mailing list to stay informed.
Neighborhood Greenways are streets designed to give priority to people walking and bicycling, and to allow bicyclists and motorists to safely share the road on low-volume, low-speed, local streets. They're not the same as Slow Streets, but they have some common goals – namely to create spaces where traffic is calmed, walking is comfortable, and people feel safe biking without being physically separated from cars. Neighborhood Greenways do not utilize the temporary barricades found on Slow Streets, but instead will include a variety of traffic-calming interventions like speed humps and neighborhood traffic circles, along with crossing improvements for busy streets. This poster shows design elements of Neighborhood Greenways (which in the past were referred to as Bicycle Boulevards).
As part of the work described above, over the next year we'll be creating a policy on when and where speed cushions and speed humps should be installed on Alameda streets. We'll solicit community input once we have a draft policy.
Contact us
transportation@alamedaca.gov
www.alamedaca.gov/transportation
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