The Transportation Commission met on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, starting at 6:30 PM at City Hall. The meeting included staff updates, approval of prior meeting minutes, and a detailed discussion on Caltrans’ State Route 61 pavement preservation project and future plans for Otis Drive. Public comments emphasized safety concerns, and commissioners called for more collaborative planning between the city and Caltrans.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the City of Alameda Transportation Commission meeting for Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. We will begin with the roll call. Lisa Foster. Commissioner Dara Abrams. Commissioner Kim. Here. Commissioner Gloyne. Present. Chair Whitesy. Here. Vice Chair Sutham Thira. Commissioner Johnson is absent at the moment, and Commissioner Noctigall cannot make it. She is absent. Okay. Seeing that we have quorum, we will continue. Next item on the agenda. Any agenda changes? Any proposed agenda changes from Commissioners? Seeing none, we will move on to item number three, staff communications. Take it away, Lisa Foster. Thank you. Good evening, Chair Whitesy and Commissioners. As Chair Whitesy said, I'm Lisa Foster, Transportation Planning Manager. We've had a couple of council items on items reviewed by the Transportation Commission recently. And on May 5th and 13th, the City Council held budget workshops to provide direction on the fiscal year 2025 to 2027 budget proposals. There wasn't any major changes in given for direction for the capital improvement plan draft that you all reviewed. Also authorized replacing the Ralph Opposato Memorial Parkway Buslanes project with three transit focused multimodal projects for the named measure BB project. So that is next going to the AC Transit Board of Directors. And then September 24th. And then for public events coming up, May 31st in a few days is an urban cycling workshop. That'll be at the main library. And then on June 6th, we have the Transportation 101 and Clipper cards for seniors at the Mastic Senior Center. For project updates, July will be a big month for the Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle. The water shuttle team is planning to add a six day of service along with other service expansions. And we will also celebrate the one year anniversary and expect to celebrate the 100,000 100,000th passenger. So keep an eye out for communications about those. It was on April 26th. I guess that was maybe I mentioned that at the last meeting we had. Funding for an additional two years of service for the Oakland Alameda Water Shuttle. Funding for neighborhood greenway major crossings, two million dollars for that. Some money for the Willie Stargil Complete Street Corridor project that you guys have reviewed, and uh funding for a uh FEMA brick match for the Doolittle Drive State Route 61 and Bay Farm Island project. Uh FEMA has recently ended their BRIC program, but the city is still advancing this project and looking for a new funding plan. So on Central Avenue, as you all know, construction is underway. There are more details on the web page and in the written staff communications. Public works has continued to refine the signals along the Ralph Opposato Memorial Parkway with the Cross Alameda Trail. Although you know the project was substantially completed last year. Um they are continuing to tweak. They added new bicycle detection indicators at a few intersections and a new protected left turn phase at Atlantic and Wilmachan. And this allowing for a longer green right turn phase arrow for the east base eastbound Atlantic traffic, which was a big source of frustration when this when the signal upgrades first went into place for drivers, so that should improve things there.