The City wants to hear your opinions and answer your questions at special pop-up events about planned Neighborhood Greenways for the current Slow Street sections of San Jose Avenue/Morton Street and Versailles Avenue.
The events will take place this coming Saturday, April 19, 10 a.m to 1 p.m. at two outdoor street corner locations: San Jose Avenue at Chestnut Street and Versailles Avenue at Lincoln Avenue.
Each station will have materials for the respective Neighborhood Greenway, activities for kids, and staff who can answer your questions. Ride or walk the full street and give your input. You will be able to:
- Learn about Neighborhood Greenways.
- Share your concerns and ideas about walking and biking along San Jose Avenue and/or Versailles Avenue.
- View and give input on draft concept plans for San Jose Avenue and Versailles Avenue.
Other ways to participate: Share your input on existing safety issues on the City’s interactive Neighborhood Greenways web map. The City will also post concept plans after the pop-up, so you can view them and give input. And please feel free to note walking/biking concerns for all Greenways on the web map.
What are 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. They are a key component of the Council-adopted Active Transportation Plan, forming 10 miles of the 2030 Low-Stress Bikeway Backbone Network.
Greenways are not Slow Streets. Slow Streets were implemented quickly in response to the pandemic, using a single treatment of temporary barricades. Greenways are being designed with community input and utilize many types of treatments to both calm traffic and improve street crossing safety. They are intended as a permanent safety installation.
Learn more at the City of Alameda’s Neighborhood Greenways web page. You may also stay informed by subscribing to the City’s mailing list for email updates.
Pacific Avenue update
The first phase of the Pacific Avenue Neighborhood Greenway implementation will start this month with the installation of new stop signs on Willow Street at Pacific Avenue and on Walnut Street at Pacific Avenue, along with daylighting at the corners. These new all-way stops will improve safety for people walking and biking across these busy streets and increase visibility for all.
The second phase of the Pacific Avenue Neighborhood Greenway will be constructed in late summer/early fall, between Lafayette and Oak streets, with the installation of a traffic circle at Chestnut Street, painted curb extensions at Lafayette and Oak streets, six asphalt speed humps between Chestnut and Oak streets, daylighting at all intersections, and the installation of paint and bollards in the new bulbouts at the Willow and Walnut street intersections.
The City will also be working with property owners to bring overgrown landscaping at corner properties into compliance with City code, to further improve visibility for all.
The Lafayette to Oak street segment of the Neighborhood Greenway will pilot these traffic calming treatments, which the City will then modify, as needed, before implementing them on the rest of the Slow Street segments of Pacific Avenue (Ninth to Lafayette streets), and San Jose/Morton and Versailles.
The Pacific Avenue draft concept plan is available as a PDF file online.
