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Recommendation to Receive an Update on Construction Impacts from the Oakland Alameda Access Project. (City Manager)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Led by the Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC), the Oakland Alameda Access Project (OAAP) is a $152 million regional project to improve connectivity between Interstate 880 (I-880), Interstate 980 (I-980), and the cities of Oakland and Alameda. The OAAP will improve freeway access for Alameda residents, visitors and businesses as well as increase safety and equity for people in Oakland Chinatown. The Alameda CTC, City of Oakland, and the City of Alameda (City) have collaborated on this project, in some form, for over twenty years. It is an exciting milestone that the project is now close to its construction phase, and City staff are very appreciative of all the work leading up to this moment.
A major project like this cannot be constructed without street closures necessitating detours, and temporary Webster and Posey Tube closures have always been expected. That said, recent construction plans estimate two years of continuous single-lane closures in the Posey Tube (Alameda to Oakland) and eight months in the Webster Tube (Oakland to Alameda), surpassing expected intermittent, off-peak tube closures. City staff raised substantial concerns with Alameda CTC about the delays that long-term, continuous lane closures could cause for bus riders and auto travelers, impacting Alameda residents, visitors, employees, and business owners. City staff have held meetings with staff from Alameda CTC, AC Transit, and the City of Oakland to discuss this.
City staff are proactively seeking solutions to minimize and mitigate both Tube closures and preparing to support Caltrans with clear and extensive community-wide communication plans related to construction impacts. The City has contracted with transportation engineering an...
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