Title
Approve Cross Alameda Trail Preliminary Design for the Ralph Memorial Appezzato Parkway Section
Body
Joint Transportation Commission and Planning Board Special Meeting
February 25, 2015
Item 5
Action
Approve Cross Alameda Trail Preliminary Design
for the Ralph Memorial Appezzato Parkway Section
Background
In 2005, the City Council approved the Cross Alameda Trail Feasibility Study. This Cross Alameda Trail project section along Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway (Appezzato Pkwy) between Main Street and Webster Street - as shown in Figure 1 - is a high priority project in the City of Alameda's Bicycle Master Plan Update (2010), is a medium priority project in the City's Pedestrian Plan (2009), and is a proposed segment of the San Francisco Bay Trail according to the San Francisco Bay Trail Project Gap Analysis Study (2005). The City's Local Action Plan for Climate Protection states the need to develop and fund alternative transportation strategies in the City's budget as a key initiative. The Cross Alameda Trail also is listed in the Countywide Bicycle and Pedestrian Plans (2012).
Figure 1: Cross Alameda Trail Project
This segment of the Cross Alameda Trail project segment will run parallel to and south of Appezzato Pkwy in the abandoned railroad right-of-way, which is about 70 feet wide. Ultimately, the entire Cross Alameda Trail will extend between the Sea Plane Lagoon in Alameda Point and Tilden Way traveling through the Jean Sweeney Open Space Park, which is a total of almost four miles. The City also plans to widen Appezzato Pkwy to accommodate exclusive bus lanes between Alameda Point and Webster Street.
The Transportation Element of the City's General Plan provides direction on how to move forward with the former railroad property in Policy 4.1.7.d as follows:
"Develop strategies to preserve and identify required rights-of-way.
1. Pursue opportunities to utilize the corridor of the former Alameda Belt Line rail...
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