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Endorse Design Concept for Willie Stargell Complete Street Project (action)
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Transportation Commission
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Willie Stargell Avenue Complete Street project will construct safety and transit improvements between Main St and Mariner Square Loop by improving school crossings, providing active transportation facilities, slowing traffic, improving the safety of major intersections, installing landscape and green infrastructure, and adding new bus stops for AC Transit's Line 19 that will be re-routed later in 2025. After multiple rounds of community outreach and refinement, the full concept plan includes bicycle and pedestrian paths, bus stops, roundabouts, and crosswalk safety enhancements.
Staff recommend that the Transportation Commission endorse the design concept. After this, staff will bring the concepts to the Commission on Persons with Disabilities and, in the spring, bring them to City Council for approval and advancement toward detailed design.
BACKGROUND
Stargell Avenue between Main Street and Mariner Square Loop serves as an automobile, pedestrian, and bicycle connection between Alameda Point, the Alameda Point Collaborative, and the Main Street Ferry Terminal to the west; and the College of Alameda, Alameda Landing Shopping Center, and Webster Street to the east. Along the way, the roadway serves multiple low-income housing communities and Coast Guard housing. The corridor also serves as a school route to Ruby Bridges Elementary School and seven other West End schools, including for many families crossing the street on foot. West of 5th Street, it is a two-lane roadway with a sidewalk on the south side only, bicycle shared lane "sharrows" in the 14' travel lanes (which are wide lanes but too narrow to add bicycle lanes), and a vacant right of way to the north. East of 5th Street, the roadway is four to six lanes, with left turn lanes.
The width of the Stargell Avenue right of way we...
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