New All Way Stop Signs at Willow and Walnut

Published on April 21, 2025

New STOP signs have been added to Willow and Walnut Streets at their intersections with Pacific Avenue, as the initial phase of implementing Alameda’s first Neighborhood Greenway on Pacific Avenue. These new four-way stops will improve safety for people walking and biking across these busy streets, including Love Elementary School students. To improve visibility for all roadway users, daylighting with new red curbs and painted bulbouts were also added at both intersections.

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 are safer. New to Alameda but used in many other cities, these low-stress bikeways also improve pedestrian safety and calm traffic. 

The second phase of the Pacific Avenue Neighborhood Greenway, between Lafayette and Oak Streets, will be constructed in late summer/early fall as a pilot of new traffic calming treatments on a continuous corridor. The Slow Streets barricades will be removed and the following will be installed: a neighborhood traffic circle at Chestnut, painted curb extensions at Lafayette and Oak Streets, six asphalt speed humps between Chestnut and Oak, daylighting at all intersections, and the paint and bollards added in the new bulbouts at the Willow and Walnut intersections. The City will also work with property owners to bring overgrown landscaping at corner properties into compliance with City code, to further improve visibility for all.  

Planning is underway for the third phase, which will convert the following Slow Streets segments to Neighborhood Greenways: Pacific Avenue from Lafayette to Ninth Street, San Jose Avenue/Morton Street and Versailles Avenue. Draft concept plans for these segments were presented at two well-attended pop-up events on April 19, and are now posted on the project web page with comments being accepted through May 4. The concept plans use similar traffic calming treatments as the first two phases, with the possibility for modifications to be made based on lessons learned from the Pacific Avenue pilot. Construction for this third phase is expected by fall 2026, depending on funding availability, and the Slow Streets barricades will then be removed. 

Learn more about Neighborhood Greenways and comment on the San Jose and Versailles draft concept plans here: www.alamedaca.gov/NeighborhoodGreenways.  

Funding for planning and constructing the Neighborhood Greenways comes from your transportation sales tax dollars, Measure BB. More info: www.alamedactc.org.