4/9/2024
1 City of Alameda Transportation
2023 Annual Reports & 2024 Work Plan
City of Alameda - AC Transit Interagency
Liaison Committee
April 18, 2024
Top Accomplishments 2023
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2 Safety & Active Transportation Construction
3 2023: Improvements at 3.4
miles of roadway and 20
intersections, including 3.3
miles of new bikeways
Safety & Active Transportation Construction
4 2023: • Complete Streets with Alameda Point Adaptive
Reuse
• Main St: extended road diet and bike lanes
• Speed humps on Orion St • Eliminated 4,000 trip hazards on sidewalks • Caltrans: road diet and bike lanes on Encinal Ave.
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3 City Council Approved Major Street Redesigns
5 Completed public outreach and concept designs for: • Clement Ave Extension/Tilden Way • Grand St (Shoreline to Blanding) • Lincoln Ave/Marshall Way/Pacific Ave Prepared for Estuary Water Shuttle Service
6 • Launch summer 2024
• 2-year pilot with free service
between Bohol Circle Immigrant Park
and Jack London Square
• With public and private partners: – Secured $2.5 million in funding – Purchased pontoon boat “Woodstock” – Operator agreements
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4 Oakland Alameda Estuary Bridge 2023
7 • Evaluated 12 feasible bridge concepts
• Project Initiation Document nearly completed, studying top 3 concepts • Multiple advisory committee meetings
Expanded Free Bus Pass Program
8 • Serves Low-Income Seniors & People
with Disabilities
• Expanded 140% in 2023
• Now provides passes to 800+ residents
• 164,000 rides in 2023
• 60% participants non-English speakers
• Transportation 101 & Hop on the Bus
with Us events
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5 2023 Constraints:
Low Staffing & the Need to Pivot
9 • Severe staffing shortages despite recruitments (4
engineering positions now filled) • Pivots requiring extra staff time • External agency reviews
• Increasing construction costs (recent bids were 40%-
50% higher than expected)
2023 Transportation Facts and
Performance Measures
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6 2023 Fatalities + Severe Injuries
11 2023: • 3 fatalities
• 6 severe injuries
Rolling Five-Year Averages, Traffic Fatalities + Severe Injuries by Mode, 2009-2023 Data City, County, and State Comparison
12 City of Alameda 2022 rate: • 54% lower than Alameda
County
• 66% lower than California
Traffic Fatalities + Severe Injuries Rate Per 100,000 Population 11 12
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7 2023 Traffic Enforcement Prioritization
13 2023 Street Safety Concern Reports
14 • 433 reports
• Self-reported data
• Staff used reports for planning &
design
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8 2023 Bus & Ferry Ridership
15 SF Bay Ferry
• 46% increase at Seaplane
Lagoon & Harbor Bay
• 800+ Alamedans take a
ferry to SF before 9:30 am
AC Transit Bus Service
2023 Active Transportation Measures
16 Bike lanes: • 3.3 new bikeway miles added 2023
• 57 miles of bikeways, including 22.5 lowstress miles Change from 2016/17 to 2022
Peds -17%
Bicyclists +57%
Peds and bicyclists counted at 7 intersections
(2-hour PM peak)
Mode Baseline % % Target %
2021 2022 2030
Walk 2.6 2.2 4.0
Bicycle 2.4 2.6 3.6
Drive 54.5 51.7 Stable or decreasing
alone
Percentages of people bicycling, walking and
driving alone to work (3 yr averages)
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9 What to Look for in 2024: Highlights
Neighborhood Greenways
18 2024: Outreach and begin construction for at least one Greenway Treatment Examples
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10 Cross Alameda Trail Construction
19 • Traffic signal/crossings on RAMP
• Clement Ave Project • Clement Ave Extension/Tilden Way • Cross Alameda Trail connectors in
Jean Sweeney
Construction on Central, Mecartney, Grand,
Webster, Park
20 • Central Ave • Webster St and Park St • Grand St Shore Line to Otis • Mecartney Pedestrian improvements
at three intersections
• Pavement resurfacing East End area
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11 Parking Management
21 Park St & Webster St: parking back to curb,
new color curb zones
Improvements at Civic Center Garage
Launch mobile payment Ferry Terminal Parking Pricing Strategy Paid parking at Seaplane Lagoon and/or
Harbor Bay ferry terminals Passenger Loading Commercial Loading Image: carparts.com (with alterations)
Key Links
22 • Transportation pages: alamedaca.gov/transportationlinks • Report a Street Safety Concern: alamedaca.gov/saferstreets#section-7 • Subscribe to a mailing list: alamedaca.gov/subscribe
• Email: [email protected]
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