Title
Public Hearing to Consider Adopting the Draft Transportation Choices Plan and Approve a Six-Month Extension to the CDM Smith Consultant Team Contract. (Transportation 91625)
Body
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of the Draft Transportation Choices Plan
BACKGROUND
Purpose
The City is tackling transportation issues with a comprehensive citywide plan to provide more transportation options for Alamedans with the goal of reducing thousands of drive alone trips at the crossings and through Alameda over the next 15 years. The purpose of the Transportation Choices Plan is to help ensure that the City sustains its high quality of life during a time of current and anticipated population and employment growth throughout the Bay Area region. During this 18-month citywide planning effort, the City and the consultant team identified numerous diverse and scalable opportunities for strategic transportation investment and coordination with transit operators to provide Alamedans with enhanced transportation options while reducing congestion, our carbon footprint and air pollution.
At over 75,000 residents, Alameda is served by numerous regional transportation options, with two high volume ferry terminals in town, several highly utilized AC Transit local and Transbay bus lines, the San Francisco Bay Trail and other local bikeways and walkways. Alamedans take advantage of these options: for example, only 22 percent of the 7,200 commuters to San Francisco drive alone. That said, there is more the City can do to address increasing traffic congestion, and, according to surveys related to this planning effort, more Alamedans would take advantage of transportation options other than driving alone if the choices were expanded.
Goals
The Transportation Choices Plan provides an implementation-focused blueprint for how the City can improve transportation infrastructure and servic...
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