S. Delaware
Safe Routes to School Corridor Bike
Lane
Improvements Project
City Council Meeting
September 2, 2025
Council Feedback
Does council support staff's recommendation to move
forward with the Revised Design and proceed with bidding the project?
2 Presentation Agenda
1. Brief Project Overview
2. Community Engagement Efforts
3. Revised Project Design and Final Community Meeting
4. Summary / Council Discussion
3 Project Goals
• Improve Bicyclist + Pedestrian Safety
• Parking Retention
• Traffic Operations
4 5
General Plan 2040 Policies and Actions
• Policy C 1.1: Sustainable Transportation. Reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation by increasing mode share options for sustainable travel modes, such as walking, bicycling, and public transit. • Policy C 1.2: Complete Streets. Apply complete streets design standards to future projects in the public right-of-way and on private property. Complete streets are streets designed to facilitate safe, comfortable, and efficient travel for all users regardless of age or ability or whether they are walking, bicycling, taking transit, or driving, and should include landscaping and shade trees as well as green streets stormwater infrastructure to reduce runoff and pollution. • Policy C 1.3: Vision Zero. Use a safe systems approach for transportation planning, street design, operations, emergency response, and maintenance that proactively identifies opportunities to improve safety where conflicts between users exist to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries in our roadways.
• Policy C 1.4: Prioritize Pedestrian and Bicycle Mobility Needs. Prioritize local pedestrian and bicycle projects that enhance mobility, connectivity, and safety when designing roadway and intersection improvements. • Action C 4.9: Bicycle Master Plan Implementation. Implement the Bicycle Master Plan’s recommended programs and projects to create and maintain a fully connected, safe, and logical bikeway network and coordinate with the countywide system. Update the Bicycle Master Plan and related adopted City plans to reflect future bicycle and micromobility facility needs to support the City’s circulation network. • Action C 5.13: Safe Routes to Transit. Prioritize bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects that provide safe and equitable access to transit stops.
6 2025-2026 City Council Priorities
• No. 28: Prioritize planning, design, construction and maintenance of rapid safety improvement projects citywide…
• No. 40: Complete all High and Medium-High priority projects in the 2020 Bicycle Master Plan and the Pedestrian Master Plan with the goal of prioritizing quick-build projects where feasible.
Project Overview
Winter Augus
t
Sept Winter April May
2024 2025
Traffic &
Parking
Analysis
Stakeholder and
Community
Engagement (Ph
1)
Project Bid
& Award Project Design
Construct
Project
Preliminary
Design
…Aug Sept
Project Status
ATP
project
funding
2020-
2021
8 Oct
Fall to Winter
2026
= Council meeting
= Community meeting
Follow-up
Community
Engagement
(Ph 2)
Sept
2 9
Bicycle Master Plan
10 Bicycle Master Plan
Project Limits
11 ● Delaware Street between 19th
Avenue and Pacific Boulevard
○ 19th to 28th:
0.7 Mi Protected Bikeway
○ 28th to Pacific:
0.3 Mi Bicycle Boulevard
Community Engagement Efforts
Phase 1 – Spring 2024
• Door-to-Door canvassing
• A-frame messaging
• Project Website
• Online Survey
• Pop-up events
• Recorded Project Presentation
• S&I updates (Bike & Ped)
• Meetings with schools
13 Phase 2 – Spring 2025
• Door-to-Door canvassing
• A-frame messaging
• Project Website updates
• Two public meetings offerings in
April (one with virtual option)
• 200 mailers sent in English
and Spanish and 16 flyers
handed out for local meeting
• Over 2,000 mailers sent in
both English and Spanish for
broader community meeting
• City Council Regular Meeting
• County Events Center meeting
• Final community meeting
(Summer 2025)
Outreach Efforts through
Spring 2025
Feedback Themes through
Spring 2025
§Southbound lane reduction between Bermuda and Saratoga § Impacts to Event Center access during large events
§ Buses, trucks, delivery vehicles blocking travel lane § Emergency vehicle access
§Centerline striping between Bermuda and Saratoga
§ Ability to make left turns into and out of driveways
§Vehicles blocking bike lane north of 28th Avenue
§Students excited to use Delaware St to bike more to school 14 Activities Since Phase 2 Community Meetings
§ City Council regular meeting on 5/5/2025
§ Resolution of dumpster staging problem north of 28th
§ Revised design to address parked vehicles in bike lanes post-project § Meetings with San Mateo County Events Center staff
§ Fire, SMPD, OES conversations for design approval
§ Observations made between Bermuda to Saratoga
§ Counting bikes/scooter users, semi truck movements into Keller Plumbing, lane blockages from delivery vehicles
§ Revised Design for Bermuda-Saratoga
§ Explores additional parking on Pacific Blvd to mitigate parking impacts in this revision
§ Samtrans coordination meetings
15 Revised Project Design and Final
Community Meeting
Delaware between
Bermuda and Saratoga
18 S Delaware St
Bermuda Dr
19 § 2 SB through lanes to 1
lane (Bermuda to
Saratoga)
§ Redistribute width to
accommodate bike facilities &
retain parking (east side)
§ Retain 14 of the existing
parking spaces on the east
side of Delaware
§ Overall reduction of 4
parking spaces
§ NB travel lanes must remain to
serve traffic headed to SR-92
ORIGINAL Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
Bermuda Dr
Pacific
Blvd
Saratoga Dr
20 ORIGINAL Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
21 Pacific Blvd
Saratoga Dr
ORIGINAL Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
Pacific
Blvd
Saratoga Dr
22 REVISED Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
§ Retain 2 SB through
lanes from Bermuda to
Saratoga
§ Retain 6 of the existing 18
parking spaces on the east
side of Delaware in favor of
keeping the vehicle lane
§ Overall reduction of 12
parking spaces, based on
City standard parking
space lengths
§ Staff reviewing options for
additional parking on Pacific
Blvd to partially offset parking
losses on Delaware
§ Additional, easily
accessible loading zone
Bermuda Dr
Saratoga Dr
23 REVISED Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
Pacific
Blvd
Bermuda Dr
Saratoga Dr
24 REVISED Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
§ Retain 2 SB through
lanes from Bermuda to
Saratoga
§ Retain 6 of the existing 18
parking spaces on the east
side of Delaware in favor of
keeping the vehicle lane
§ Overall reduction of 12
parking spaces, based on
City standard parking
space lengths
§ Staff reviewing options for
additional parking on Pacific
Blvd to partially offset parking
losses on Delaware
§ Additional, easily
accessible loading zone
Pacific
Blvd
Pacific
Blvd
Delaware St
25 REVISED Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
§ Retain 2 SB through
lanes from Bermuda to
Saratoga
§ Retain 6 of the existing 18
parking spaces on the east
side of Delaware in favor of
keeping the vehicle lane
§ Overall reduction of 12
parking spaces, based on
City standard parking
space lengths
§ Staff reviewing options for
additional parking on Pacific
Blvd to partially offset parking
losses on Delaware
§ Additional, easily
accessible loading zone
Bermuda Dr
Pacific
Blvd
Delaware St
26 REVISED Design
Bermuda to Saratoga
Bermuda Dr
§ Retain 2 SB through
lanes from Bermuda to
Saratoga
§ Retain 6 of the existing 18
parking spaces on the east
side of Delaware in favor of
keeping the vehicle lane
§ Overall reduction of 12
parking spaces, based on
City standard parking
space lengths
§ Staff reviewing options for
additional parking on Pacific
Blvd to partially offset parking
losses on Delaware
§ Additional, easily
accessible loading zone
REVISED Design
Parking counts
Existing
Parking Spaces
Proposed
Parking Spaces
Parking Loss
Original Design 18 14 - 4
Revised Design 18 6 - 12
Difference of 8 parking spaces lost* between
Original and Revised Design
*Does not include potential increase of parking spaces
and provision of loading zone on Pacific Blvd, which
would mitigate these losses
Additional Design Changes
ORIGINAL Design:
Traffic
29 NEW Design:
Traffic
30 Left turns now permitted into driveways
NEW Design:
Traffic
31 S Delaware St
E 28th Ave
ORIGINAL
Design:
NEW Design:
Traffic
32 S Delaware St
E 28th AveAdditional bollard protection,
designated short term parking for
delivery vehicles
NEW
Design:
NEW Design:
Traffic
33 S Delaware St
E 28th Ave
Additional bollard protection,
designated short term parking for
delivery vehicles
NEW
Design:
E 28th Ave
Final Community Meeting
35 Final Community Meeting
• August 19, 2025
• College Park Elementary
• 7,000 mailers sent in each
language – English, Spanish,
Simplifed Chinese
• 10 A-frames posters along
corridor - English, Spanish, Chinese
• Door knocking about parking
losses on Delaware
• 36 Single family residences, 8
duplexes
• Mode apartment resident emails
• 4 apartment complexes, Ironwood
HOA communications
• Discussed changes to original
design, including Revised Design
between Bermuda-Saratoga and
other changes at 28th Ave &
Delaware St intersection
36 Final Community Meeting
• 25 attendees
• Feedback received:
• Concerns about proposed addition of
the SB travel lane
• Question if bike lane widths were
sufficient
• Concerns about bike boulevard
treatment from 28th Ave to project end
• Appreciate changes north of 28th Ave
• Desired more changes on Bermuda Dr
along with this project
• Appreciation for retaining the SB
through lane from Bermuda Dr to
Saratoga Dr
• Question on staff making data driven
decisions for the Southbound left turns
from Delaware onto Saratoga
• Concerns about walking and biking to
get to Events Center being particularly
difficult, forcing attendees to drive
Summary
Project Summary
• General Plan Policies and Actions alignment
• City Council Priority No. 28 & No. 40
• Bike Master Plan – High Priority Project
• Community feedback
• Traffic Calming/Speeding
• Bike/Ped Improvements
• Concerns about lane reduction
• Revised Design to address this
• Continued coordination with Events Center
• Project goals
• Bike/Ped Safety
• Parking Retention
• Traffic Operations
38 Next Steps
39 • Fall 2025 - Bid project
• November/December 2025 - Award project for construction • January 2026 – Contractor Notice to Proceed
• February to April 2026 – Phase 1 Construction
• September to December 2026 – Phase 2 Construction (signal equipment)
Council Discussion
Council Feedback
Does council support staff's recommendation to move
forward with the Revised Design and proceed with bidding the project?
41 Questions + Comments?