Alameda city staff is asking community members to participate in two public workshops to provide feedback to the city on the Lincoln Avenue/Marshall Way/Pacific Avenue Improvement Project.

First, the city will conduct a virtual community workshop via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27. The next day on Thursday, April 28, city staff will hold an in-person open house at the Main Library, at 1550 Oak St., for members of the community to offer their opinions on the proposed project. The meeting will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the Stafford Room.

The city identified the Lincoln Avenue/Marshall Way/Pacific Avenue corridor between Alameda Point at Main Street/Central Avenue and Broadway as a high priority for safety and mobility improvements. The corridor, which is more than three miles long, has been deemed a high-injury corridor with several high crash intersections, according to the city’s Vision Zero Action Plan.

City staff is working with Parisi Transportation Consulting to develop a safety and operational concept for the corridor. Parisi is a Berkeley-based company that provides planning and design services for Complete Streets, Safe Streets, Active Transportation, Traffic Engineering, and Transportation Planning projects throughout the Bay Area.

The city and Parisi will evaluate the current uses, intersection controls and crash data to develop a transportation concept. Community involvement is a priority as the roadway serves many different users. The final concept will likely be phased in over time as street sections are resurfaced and improvements are constructed with grant funding, according to a city press release.

City staff and consultants are considering a “road diet” for the corridor. A “road diet” would convert the four-lane section of the corridor into three lanes with a center turn lane and bikeways on each side. Staff believes this would reduce crashes by up to 47 percent. Another option is building roundabouts along the corridor, which reduce fatal and severe injury crashes by 90 percent compared to traffic signals or all-way stops, according to city staff. The plan would be to place the roundabouts at the Lincoln Avenue/Constitution Way/Eighth Street intersection or the Lincoln Avenue/Fifth Street/Marshall Way intersection.

Concept approval is expected in early 2023. The project will be financed by Measures B and BB sales tax funds. The purpose of the measures is to improve Alameda County streets and roads. Measure B and BB funds are maintained and allocated by the Alameda County Transportation Commission.

To register for the virtual community workshop, visit https://alamedaca-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BcAR4G6XQFWYZalO_yn5rg.

To receive project updates via email or for more information, contact Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda at gpayne@alamedaca.gov.