Description
There is still a Slow Street barrier at 6th Street and Santa Clara (and 5th Street and Santa Clara). All they are doing at this point is making it hard to turn onto Santa Clara because this blocks the lane. Nobody is driving slower down the street because of these barriers and they are more of a hazard than a help at this point. Can these barriers be removed?
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Q. Please select the category that best describes your concern.
A. Unsafe crossing
A. Unsafe crossing
4 Comments
Alameda, CA (Verified Official)
Xo (Registered User)
An anonymous SeeClickFix user (Registered User)
Acknowledged PW Engineering - 3 (Verified Official)
Thank you for reporting your concerns about street safety in Alameda. Santa Clara Avenue will continue to be a Slow Street until the Central Ave Safety Improvement Project is completed, which will provide a low-stress bikeway while Central Ave is under construction from mid-2024 through 2025. Once the separated bike lanes open on Central Ave, the barricades on Santa Clara Ave will be removed. It will not become a Neighborhood Greenway, since Central Ave will be the main low-stress bikeway through the area, but it will remain a bicycle route.
More info about the Slow Streets program overall is on our project web page: www.slowstreetsalameda.org.
Your report will help inform the City of Alameda’s work to achieve our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries. Staff will retain your report and refer to it the next time we undertake a project on this street, whether it is pavement resurfacing or a corridor update. For selection of new safety improvement projects, the City refers to High Injury Corridors, equity indicators, Active Transportation Plan projects, and street resurfacing needs, augmented by Street Safety Concerns. See the links below for more information.
- Check whether your street is on a High Injury Corridor: www.alamedaca.gov/visionzero#section-4
- See the pavement resurfacing schedule: www.alamedaca.gov/pavement
- Check whether your street is slated for improvements by 2030 as part of the Active Transportation Plan: www.activealameda.org/files/sharedassets/transport/table-10_2030-infrastructure-plan.pdf
- Review the City’s current transportation projects and work plan: www.alamedaca.gov/saferstreets
- Join the transportation mailing list(s) that interest you: www.alamedaca.gov/subscribe