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Review Complete Streets Checklist and Provide Input on Stargell Ave Safety Improvements Project (Discussion)
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Transportation Commission
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
City staff are developing a grant application to make safety improvements and add walking and biking facilities along Stargell Avenue from Main Street to Mariner Square Loop, including new separate walking and biking paths in the vacant City right of way north of Stargell Ave, and crossing improvements for people walking across Stargell Avenue. The City will apply for an approximately $5-6 million project to both the state and regional Active Transportation Program, Cycle 7. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), which administers the regional program, requires that a transportation-related City commission or committee review a draft Complete Streets Checklist, which is part of the application. The Transportation Commission is requested to review and provide input on both the Stargell Avenue Safety Improvement Project draft checklist (Exhibit 1) and the draft concept plan (Exhibit 2).
BACKGROUND
Stargell Avenue between Main and Fifth Streets serves as an automobile, pedestrian and bicycle connection between Alameda Point, the Alameda Point Collaborative and the Main Street Ferry Terminal; and the College of Alameda, Alameda Landing Shopping Center and Webster Street. Along the way, the roadway serves multiple low-income housing communities and Coast Guard housing, and serves as a school route to Ruby Bridges Elementary School. It is a two-lane roadway with a sidewalk on the south side only, 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.
The width of the Stargell Avenue right of way was originally established to accommodate a four-lane arterial connecting the former Naval Air Station to the rest of Alameda, but it was ultimately constructed as a 28-foot wide, ...
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