Status Report on Transportation
Transportation Commission
August 23, 2023
1 TC Recommendation
2 Accept the Status Report on
Transportation (Action)
TC Monitors Plan Implementation
3 Draft City Council Strategic Plan
4 • 3-year plan highlights City Council priorities
• Goals
• Enhance Community Safety & Service
• Invest in Transportation & Infrastructure
• Build Resilience to Climate Change & Water Level Rise • House All Alamedans/Increase Housing & Support Our
Unsheltered
• Practice Fiscally Responsible & Inclusive Governance
Planning & Programs
5 Citywide Planning 2023
• ADA Self-Evaluation & Transition Plan:
public-right-of-way plan in progress
• Performance metrics: scoping document
to TC Sept 2023
• Tsunami Response Plan: annexed to
AFD’s Emergency Operations Plan
• Climate Action Resiliency Plan: update in
2024
6 Vision Zero Programs
• Launched Rapid Response
Program
• Progress on engineering project
checklists
• Public safety campaign
consultant contract planned for
fall/winter
• Targeted enforcement ongoing
with limited staffing
7 New! Public info on fatal crashes & City
response: alamedaca.gov/rapidresponse alamedavisionzero.org School Programs
• Bike Festival a success!
• Low school response to Cityfunded 5th grade bicycle
education offering
• Back to school traffic safety
communications
8 Trail Maintenance
• Maintenance underway on Bay Farm
Shoreline Park trail – Phase 1
completed on 8/22; Phase 2
underway
• Awarded grant for trail maintenance
near Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal
9 Photo 8/22/2023
Parking Management
• Planning new curb zones in
Park/Webster for late 2023
• Awarded MTC Parking Management
Capital Grant $742,000; shifts timing for
ferry terminal paid parking & demandbased pricing
• $1 million for garage security updates in
adopted City Capital Budget
10 alamedaparking.org
New parking enforcement vehicles
Public Transit
11 Water Shuttle
• 2-year pilot to start summer 2024
• Awarded $1 million grant
• Will need to purchase a boat
tailored for the service (Alameda
TMA)
12 alamedaca.gov/watershuttle
Paratransit
13 • 650+ enrolled
• 9,500 rides/month
Free AC Transit Bus Pass
Independent Mobility
• 111 enrolled
• 80 rides/month
alamedaca.gov/paratransit
New Bus Stop Benches
14 • 20 new benches coming!
• 11 already installed on
intersections along:
– Park St
– Santa Clara Ave
– Buena Vista Ave
– W Tower Ave
– Mariner Sq Loop
– Encinal
Transit Agency Planning & Updates
15 actransit.org/realign link21program.org
• ILC (May) bayferry.org
• TC (Aug)
• Also updating the
Transit Streets
Design Guidelines
• Line 78 pilot ended
• TC (May)
• CC (June) Main St Terminal
construction approx.
Oct-Dec
Capital Projects
16 Cross Alameda Trail:
Clement from Grand to Broadway
17 • Project is out to bid now
• Construction to start by the end of 2023
alamedaca.gov/clement
Cross Alameda Trail:
RAMP from Constitution to Main
18 Construction starting in fall 2023
Project:
• Traffic signal improvements at 5 intersections
along Ralph Appezzato Memorial Pkway
• New bicycle signals with automatic detection
• New turn arrows
alamedaca.gov/catramp
Cross Alameda Trail:
Clement Ave Extension/Tilden Way
19 • CC endorsed design concept
• Design in progress
• Construction starts mid-2024
alamedaca.gov/clementtilden
Cross Alameda Trail:
Jean Sweeney Connectors
20 • 4 new connectors
• Construction 2024
Alameda Point Adaptive Reuse
21 • Open: Reconstructed
sections of W Tower Ave &
Saratoga St open
• To open 2024: Pan Am
Way & W Midway
W Tower Ave
alamedaca.gov/adaptivereuse
Encinal Ave Improvements (Caltrans)
22 Resurfacing and most road
striping complete
Park & Webster Striping Update
23 • CC approved concept with direction to return with updates to parklet program • Construction late 2023
Parklet Parklet Parklet
alamedaca.gov/commercialstreets
Grand St Resurfacing & Safety Improvements
24 CC approved raised
cycle-track concept for
corridor + funding for:
Shore Line to Otis
(2024 construction)
Otis to Encinal
(2025 construction)
alamedaca.gov/grand
Central Ave Safety Improvement
25 • Construction to begin mid-2024
• Awarded grants to fund:
• Third roundabout at Central/Fourth/Ballena
• Bio-retention areas at the three funded roundabouts
alamedaca.gov/central
Pavement Mgmt & Safety Improvements
26 • Planning/design underway
• Construction 2024
• Fernside split off to be its
own project
alamedaca.gov/pavement
Lincoln/Marshall/Pacific
27 • CC approved design concept
• Design in progress
• Lincoln/Walnut improvements
construction late 2023
• Submitted a federal Safe Routes
for All grant application for $20M
alamedaca.gov/lincolnmarshallpacific
Oakland-Alameda Estuary Bridge
• Developed and screened 12
alignment alternatives
• 3 highest scoring to be studied
in Project Initiation Document
• Held stakeholder meetings this
week
www.estuarybridge.org 28
CONCEPTUAL SKETCH for
Washington to Fifth St alternative
ALAMEDA
OAKLAND
29 2023 Capital Work Plan
alamedaca.gov/transportation
TC Recommendation
30 Accept the Status Report on
Transportation (Action)