The Berkeley City Council will vote on approving the recommended conceptual design \u2014 Concept 3B \u2014 for the Telegraph Avenue Multimodal Corridor Project on Oct. 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If approved, the project, which aims to develop plans for transportation and pedestrian safety on Telegraph Avenue, will be able to proceed with the detailed engineering design.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the recommendation sent to the City Council, Telegraph Avenue is recognized by the Berkeley Vision Zero Action Plan \u2014 part of a city program that aims to eliminate fatal and severe car crashes \u2014 as a high-injury street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This project, according to the recommendation, would allow for the construction of \u201ccapital-intensive and quick-build safety projects,\u201d which will help build and redesign the street to be safer for all residents. \u00a0The project corridor includes the portion of Telegraph Avenue from Dwight Way to Woolsey Street, which borders Oakland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe connection between Southside and Downtown Oakland is a really important one,\u201d said District 7 Councilmember Cecilia Lunaparra. \u201cAdding dedicated and protected bike lanes and incorporating the needs of transit riders and pedestrians \u2026 is hopefully going to prevent traffic violence and the danger that Telegraph (Avenue), as it is right now, currently poses.\u201d<\/p>\n
The goals of the project, according to a presentation made to the Transportation and Infrastructure Commission in September, include improving transit times, meeting Vision Zero policy goals and configuring a new strategy for curb management.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Concept 3B removes one travel lane in each direction of the road and creates a continuous center turn lane, protected bike lanes, bus-only lanes and bus boarding islands. The design replicates the one approved by the Oakland City Council with certain modifications.<\/p>\n
According to the recommendation sent to the Berkeley City Council, city staff recommended Concept 3B over others because it prioritizes traffic and pedestrian safety, maintains the most parking and loading spaces and aligns with stakeholder feedback, among other reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chayne Zavisza-Hollis, the president of Telegraph for People, a student organization that fights for less car-centric infrastructure, said the group has been monitoring and discussing the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBike lanes that are protected by parking should be the standard,\u201d Zavisza-Hollis said. \u201cCars will often not look at you when they\u2019re trying to get to the parking spot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Project planners reviewed feedback from multiple stakeholders including the fire department and the Commission on Disability. They also put out an online public survey which was open from June 11 to July 3, gathering over 500 responses regarding feedback on the current design plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the survey, 51% of respondents believed that pedestrian safety was the \u201cmost important\u201d to them, among options such as transit speed, disabled-person access and on-street parking. At the time of the survey, 54% of respondents preferred Concept 3B over other concepts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Concept 3B was developed in response to the feedback received from the public outreach period, adding bus-only and queue-jump lanes to improve transit service.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for the project\u2019s timeline, the detailed engineering phase is expected to be completed December 2026, followed by final design and construction phases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited about (the project),\u201d Lunaparra said. \u201cI know that our Public Works department has taken a lot of feedback into consideration, including campus organizations and the ASUC, as well as some of our business owners or organizations for disability justice. I\u2019m really excited for this to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berkeley City Council will vote on approving the recommended conceptual design \u2014 Concept 3B \u2014 for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3267,7981,13775,13776,13778,143,145,144,13780,13774,13779,13777],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county-transportation-commission","tag-berkeley-city-council","tag-cecilia-lunaparra","tag-chayne-zavisza-hollis","tag-concept-3b","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-remy-goldsmith","tag-telegraph-avenue","tag-telegraph-avenue-multimodal-corridor-project","tag-telegraph-for-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}