The City is seeking community input at a virtual meeting on Wednesday, June 12, about speed cushions that are being proposed for Versailles Avenue between San Jose Avenue and Calhoun Street. The speed cushions would be installed in Fall 2024 as part of the City’s Pavement Management Project.
Speed cushions are designed to slow traffic speeds and improve safety for people who are walking, bicycling, and driving. They would support early implementation of a portion of the Versailles Neighborhood Greenway (see below), which will eventually replace the Versailles Slow Street.
Within the next year, the City will work with the community on designing the full Neighborhood Greenway for Versailles. However, this year’s resurfacing project provides an opportunity to accelerate implementation by installing traffic calming elements sooner. Once the cushions are installed, the City proposes to remove the Slow Streets barricades from this section of Versailles.
Share your input
Virtual Community Meeting: Wednesday, June 12 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
- Zoom link
- Telephone: 669-900-9128
- Meeting ID: 824 2929 2324
- Email comments: [email protected]
Neighborhood greenways
Neighborhood Greenways are streets designed to give priority to people who are walking and bicycling, and to allow bicyclists and motorists to safely share the road on low-volume, low-speed, local streets. They’re not the same as Slow Streets, but they have some common goals—to create spaces where traffic is calmed, walking is comfortable, and people feel safe biking without being physically separated from cars.
Neighborhood Greenways do not utilize the temporary barricades found on Slow Streets, but instead will include a variety of traffic-calming interventions such as speed humps and neighborhood traffic circles, along with crossing improvements for busy streets. This online poster shows design elements of Neighborhood Greenways, formerly called Bicycle Boulevards.
City staff are working to fulfill the 2024 Transportation Work Plan [PDF], which includes:
- Beginning construction in 2024 to convert at least one Slow Street to a Neighborhood Greenway, and if time allows, staff will pursue more than one conversion this year.
- Completing quick-build conversion of the three Slow Streets by the end of 2025.
The City is working with a consultant on the Neighborhood Greenways designs, community outreach approach, and developing an implementation timeline. A project web page will be completed soon. In the meantime, stay informed by signing up for the Neighborhood Greenways mailing list.
Alameda speed cushion policy
As part of the work described above, the City will be creating a policy on when and where speed cushions and speed humps should be installed on Alameda streets. That policy is expected to be completed within the year. The City will solicit community input once a draft policy has been created.
