Commission meeting for Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, a special meeting.

We will begin tonight's meeting with a roll call.

Take it away, Lisa Foster.

Commissioner Dara Abrams.

Here.

Commissioner Gloyne is absent.

Commissioner Kim.

Here.

Chair Whitsey.

Here.

Commissioner Johnson.

Present.

Vice Chair Sutham Thiera.

Yeah.

And Commissioner Noctigall.

Here.

Having quorum, we will move to agenda changes.

Any agenda changes proposed.

Seeing none, let's move on to item three, staff communications.

Staff communications with Lisa Foster.

Good evening, Chair Whitsey and Transportation Commissioners.

I'm Lisa Foster, uh Transportation Planning Manager.

I'll start with the City Council actions this year on items reviewed by the Transportation Commission.

So since our last meeting on March 18th, the City Council approved the Fernside Boulevard Traffic Calming and Bikeways Concepts with direction to conduct the planned traffic study for the Gibbons High Fernside Intersection and return to them after that.

And then on April 1st, they accepted our annual report and also adopted the 2025 Climate Action and Resiliency Plan Midcycle Update.

And then on April 15th, they approved the Stargewell Complete Streets Corridor Design Concept and accepted funding for that project.

Our upcoming Transportation Commission meetings are May 28th and August 27th.

Upcoming agenda topics include hopefully a Caltrans Otis Drive update.

And then events that are coming up.

So tomorrow, I think tomorrow's May 1st is the bike commuting basics workshop.

May 11th is a family cycling workshop.

May 14th, this is not bicycles, but um Alameda County Transportation Commission is hope hosting a virtual uh workshop for their Oakland Alameda Access Project.

Um that's for those who missed the in-person ones that happened earlier today and on April 24th.

And then on May 15th, it's Bike to Wherever Day and Bike to School Day, and the Alameda TMA is hosting a bike to wherever day after party that evening.

And then on May 16th, there's a transportation 101 event for seniors and people with disabilities that includes uh signing up for senior clipper cards.

Project updates include the fact that the Northern California section of American Planning Association recently awarded our Oakland Alameda Access, or excuse me, our Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle, a transportation planning award of excellence.

Um yay.

And uh since launching, you know, mid-July last year, the water shuttle has carried 73,000 passengers.

The project team is currently evaluating options to expand service uh in July.

And then for neighborhood greenways, the team hosted a successful San Jose Av and Versailles Av pop-up event um on April 19th, and people who couldn't make it can still provide input via the web page until May 4th.

Um and then the Pacific Avenue neighborhood greenway broke ground on April 18th with an all new, excuse me, with new all way stop signs, high visibility crosswalks and daylighting at Willow Pacific and Willow and Pacific and Walnut.

And this is the first phase of construction for the neighborhood greenway segment from Pacific Ave to from on Pacific Ave from Lafayette to Oak, and I understand that went out to bid for construction today.

Um then also uh paid parking and increased security at ferry terminals is planned for Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal in late spring this year and seaplane lagoon ferry terminal in late summer.

Um it'll launch just Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at $3 a day with lots of options for how to pay.

Um the idea to opening up parking spaces on those busy days and offsets at the security costs.

Um we have completed a communications plan and we will launch that in the weeks leading up to um to that beginning.

And then, you know, I wanted to share some um Vice Chair Suthan Thiera pointed out that we hadn't talked about the mayor is now vice chair of the full commission for the Alameda County Transportation Commission, and she's also serving on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Um actually she's also selected to participate in the 2025 Mayor's Institute on Pedestrian Safety.

She's headed off for a trip for that right now.

Um I'm gonna now pass along to we have a guest staff for staff communications joining us today.

Thank you, Lisa.

My name is Sarah Henry, I'm the city's communications director, and I just got back from the Oakland Alameda Access Project Open House at the College of Alameda, and I also attended the open house last week at the chamber.

And I just wanted to give a quick kind of update on those events and then the status of where the project is at in terms of being out to bid and construction and timelines.

So just in terms of the meetings, they were both really well attended.

The one at the chamber and the one at the College of Alameda tonight were set up in a way that they had they were open house styles, so you could come during the hour and a half that they were open, and they were set up with easels and boards and with staff around all of them.

So you could walk through and you could decide where you wanted to focus more, whether it was project benefits or construction, and then talk to the right folks and get your questions answered.

So it was really well done.

We had a lot of people that were very concerned when they were they were coming.

Most of the people had specific questions about traffic and about getting on and off the island, about safety concerns if they're waiting in traffic in Alameda or on the Oakland side if that was going to impact them.

Folks were wondering what the city was doing with regards to the single lane closures.