City of Alameda Transportation Projects
Central Avenue: This project includes a roadway reconfiguration, bikeways, street trees/rain gardens, and intersection improvements such as roundabouts, curb extensions, pedestrian refuge islands, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, and new crosswalks.
Cross Alameda Trail: This is a premiere cross-town, low-stress four-mile bicycling and walking corridor connecting the west side of the island to the east.
Clement Avenue/Tilden Way: Create a complete street along the abandoned railroad right-of-way along Tilden Way and the eastern terminus of Clement Avenue, as well as the most eastern segment of the 4-mile east-west Cross Alameda Trail.
Estuary Bridge: Alameda, in partnership with the City of Oakland and others, is working to create a vastly improved estuary crossing for people traveling on foot, wheels, and bicycle. A new moveable bicycle/pedestrian bridge is envisioned that would create an easy-to-use, safe and enjoyable connection, filling the significant gap in walking and biking facilities between the West End of Alameda and Oakland.
Fernside Boulevard Traffic Calming & Bikeways Project: This project will reduce speeds, improve pedestrian crossings, and create a separated bikeway on Fernside Boulevard from Tilden Way to San Jose Ave.
Grand Street Safety Improvements & Pavement Resurfacing: New high visibility crosswalks, flashing beacons, daylighting, bus stop improvements, and a raised, two-way cycle-track.
Lincoln/Marshall/Pacific Avenue Improvement Project: Street design improvements on this corridor for 3.1 miles from Broadway to Main Street.
Mecartney Road/Island Drive Improvements: This project conducted analysis and outreach, and developed a roundabout design concept to increase safety and improve bus access at this busy intersection.
Neighborhood Greenways: Neighborhood Greenways are local, traffic-calmed streets designed to give priority to people walking and biking, where bicyclists and motorists can safely share the road and busy street crossings have been made safer.
Northern Shoreline near Posey/Webster Tubes: Seeking funding to bolster the seawall barrier at this entry point for coastal flooding during a 100-year flood event.
Safe Routes to School Infrastructure: Completing and implementing School Safety Assessments around all public and private K-12 Alameda schools.
Veterans Court Seawall: Addressing flood risk at this location, which is expected to be one of several entry points for coastal flooding during a 100-year flood event on Bay Farm Island.
Willie Stargell Avenue: The project will include walking and bicycling paths in the vacant right-of-way north of the roadway, traffic calming, two roundabouts, new bus stops, and pedestrian crossing safety improvements.
The above projects are funded by a variety of federal, state, and local sources including the gasoline tax - SB 1 monies - and the countywide transportation sales tax - Measure BB, which is administered by the Alameda County Transportation Commission.
Transportation Projects Led by External Agencies
Park Street Transit Signal Priority & Signal Optimization Project: AC Transit is upgrading traffic signals to prioritize bus travel and coordinate signals across the corridor.
Oakland Alameda Access Project: Led by the Alameda County Transportation Commission and constructed by Caltrans, this project will make freeway access easier, improve safety in Oakland Chinatown, and add a new 4-foot pathway for people walking and biking in the Webster Tube. Construction is expected to start in March 2026. The City has been actively involved to review project plans, limit construction impacts, and boost communications.
Otis Drive/Doolittle Drive/Broadway State Route 61 Preventative Maintenance Project: This Caltrans project focuses on pavement rehabilitation and curb ramp upgrades, with construction in Alameda expected in late 2026- early 2027. The project will incorporate the following City-requested pedestrian safety elements into the four-lane Otis Drive project design: Pedestrian median islands at Otis/Mound and Otis/Versailles, with the planned flashing beacons at both legs of the crosswalks; and quick-build bulb-outs at Otis/Bayview. Caltrans has also promised a future traffic calming project for Otis Drive from the Bay Farm Bridge to Broadway, which could include a roadway reconfiguration. At the earliest, conceptual planning would begin in late 2026 for funding in 2028 and construction in the early 2030s.
Doolittle Drive: Doolittle Drive in Oakland is expected to be an entry point for coastal flooding at the 100-year flood event. City staff are working with the key stakeholders - Caltrans, the Port of Oakland, East Bay Regional Park District and the City of Oakland - to seek funding for the project to bolster the seawall barrier to keep out bay water.
Maintenance Projects
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Completed Projects
Clement Avenue: Two-way bikeway on the north/estuary side of the street, curb extensions, sidewalk/curb ramp improvements, and railroad track removal. It forms a 1.2 mile segment of the Cross Alameda Trail.
Cross Alameda Trail - Main Street to Constitution Way: Off-street biking, walking, and jogging trails on Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway from Webster St to Main St, as well as one block of two-way cycle track on Atlantic from Webster St to Constitution Way. Completed in 2020.
Encinal Avenue: This Caltrans project consisted of restriping and improving State Route 61 (Encinal Avenue) between Sherman Street/Central Avenue and Broadway with resurfacing, a road diet from four lanes to two lanes, a center turn lane and bike lanes.
High Injury Corridor Daylighting Project: By painting red curbs at intersections along Alameda's most dangerous streets, this project increased visibility to reduce crashes.
Otis Drive: The goals of this project are to reduce speeds and flooding and to improve safety for all users including a four to three lane conversion, bike lanes, bus stop improvements, and street trees.