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Receive Presentation from Alameda County Transportation Commission on the Oakland Alameda Freeway Access Project. (Transportation Planning 91161)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Receive Presentation from Alameda County Transportation Commission on the Oakland Alameda Freeway Access Project
BACKGROUND
In April 2006, the City of Alameda led the effort of developing a Feasibility Study that resulted in 16 conceptual alternatives for access and circulation in downtown Oakland, Oakland Chinatown and Alameda. In March 2011, a project study report (PSR) was approved by Caltrans for the project that included a 6th Street circulation alternative from the 2006 Feasibility Study. In 2011, the cities of Alameda and Oakland co-sponsored a grant application for this multimodal transportation project, which was then included in Alameda County Transportation Commission's (Alameda CTC) Countywide Transportation Plan (CWTP). The project revenues now total $83 million with $75 million from Measure BB and $8 million from Measure B.
The project, which was formerly called the I-880/Broadway-Jackson Interchange Improvements Project, is now known as the Oakland Alameda Freeway Access Project, and the PSR for it is being managed by the Alameda CTC. The project proposes to improve connectivity between I-880, I-980 and the cities of Alameda and Oakland. Improvements could include reconfiguration of existing ramps, demolition of some existing ramps and construction of new ramps. Reconfiguring Oakland access to the Webster and Posey tubes and modification of Oakland city streets between Oak Street and Broadway used to access I-880 and I-980 also would occur.
Exhibits 1 and 2 provide the latest fact sheet and map of the project area limits for the Oakland Alameda Freeway Access Project. A link to the Alameda CTC's web page on the Project can also be found at: http://www.alamedactc.org/FreewayAccessProject.
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