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Otis Drive Traffic Calming and Safety Improvement Project Workshop and Survey Debrief
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Transportation Commission
From: Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator
BACKGROUND
In 2017, the City identified Otis Drive, between Westline Drive and Willow Street (1 mile), as a high priority for traffic safety improvements, and designated $500,000 in the 2017-2019 Capital Improvement Program for the initial phase work. Otis Drive also is listed in the citywide transportation plan as a Vision Zero corridor with a goal to reduce citywide traffic deaths and severe injuries to zero. The current phase of the Otis Drive Traffic Calming project consists of developing design concepts, preparing materials for and facilitating public outreach and stakeholder meetings, and obtaining concept approvals, environmental clearance and final design of the initial phase work.
In fall 2018, the City conducted a survey and obtained City Council approval to hire Parisi/CSW Design Group for outreach, planning and design services. In January 2019, the City held community workshop #1. The next steps include a second community workshop on Wed, March 20, a Transportation Commission request for approval of a design concept with a target date of Wednesday, May 22 and a City Council request for approval of a design concept with a target date of Tuesday, July 3.
The street is classified in the Transportation Element of the City of Alameda's General Plan as an Island Arterial, which are streets intended to provide cross-island access for local intra-island trips through generally residential neighborhoods. It also is identified as a bicycle priority street and as a primary transit street, as the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) operates daily bus service in the corridor.
Otis Drive is 64 feet wide, curb to curb, and currently operates with two lanes in each direction, on-street parking along both curbs and no bike la...
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