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Important updates about street safety in Alameda:
As part of our Fatal Crash Response Program, striping and signage improvements have been implemented at Lincoln Ave and 9th St, where a motorcyclist died in a collision after driving on Lincoln Ave at high speeds and colliding with a vehicle. The quick-build improvements narrowed the travel lanes approaching the intersection, extended the existing bulbouts with additional bollards and added red curbs, all to help reduce vehicle speeds on Lincoln Avenue and improve visibility for pedestrians, bicyclists, and vehicles at the intersection.
Lincoln Ave is a High Injury Corridor, and the City is currently seeking funding for the Lincoln/Marshall/Pacific Corridor Improvements project, including a $20 million federal grant proposal. An additional $3 million federal budget earmark request named 9th and Lincoln as one of five intersections that would receive early improvements if the earmark is approved. A successful $375,000 state budget earmark will include design work for those intersections (in addition to stormwater modeling and infrastructure design).
Also as part of the Fatal Crash Response Program, this fall the City will construct pedestrian crossing improvements at three intersections on Mecartney Ave. Though not officially part of this program, which began in 2023, safety improvements at Walnut St and Lincoln Ave will be constructed in the coming weeks.
The Annual Street Resurfacing Project has begun construction and will finish in September. This year the project is focusing on streets in the area from Grand Street to High Street, including 1.6 miles of Central Ave, a High Injury Corridor.
In addition to maintaining pavement, the project includes pedestrian upgrades and striping improvements for safety. Watch for new marked crosswalks, paint-and-post bulb-outs, two-stage bike turn boxes, and more!
 "Cat track" markings for a new marked crosswalk at Central Ave and Willow St
The City has added new delineators to prevent vehicles from driving into the existing portion of the cycletrack on Clement Ave from Minturn to Willow. Construction on the full Clement Ave project is well underway and will extend the two-way separated bike lane and add traffic calming and pedestrian improvements from Grand St to Broadway.
The developer for 2015 Grand Street (former Pennzoil site) recently paved the Clement Avenue extension through the project site, a missing link in Clement Avenue and the Cross Alameda Trail. The paving allows for water main installation for the project and provides a staging area to construct the housing. The continuation of the northside, two-way separated bike lane will be open to the public when the first phase of the development is complete within a year.
Pan Am Way reopened as a new complete street in late June, including new sidewalks, bikeways, and protected intersections. This brings critical infrastructure to serve Alameda’s Food Bank and the W Midway development. W Midway will open later this summer completing the first phase of backbone infrastructure in the Reuse Area. Keep your eye out for a grand opening later this year! Streetsblog raved about the project.
Thank you to the 745+ people who have filled out the Neighborhood Greenways survey! Watch for an announcement of the survey closing date, which will be next week. Survey results and an implementation plan will be to the Transportation Commission on August 28 and the City Council on September 17.
Neighborhood Greenways are bicycle- and pedestrian-priority streets designed to allow bicyclists and motorists to safely share the road on low-volume, low-speed, local streets. In 2024-2025, the Slow Street segments of Pacific Ave, San Jose Ave/Morton St and Versailles Ave will be converted to Neighborhood Greenways, and Slow Streets barricades will be removed. First up: Pacific Ave. Join the mailing list today!
The Central Ave project received final construction approval from Caltrans in June, then the City advertised the project for construction bids early July. Staff plan to bring a construction contract to City Council for approval on September 17. This $23 million project includes traffic calming, protected bikeways, pedestrian crossing improvements, and the City's first three modern roundabouts.
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