{"id":355376,"date":"2026-06-10T23:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355376\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:10:17","slug":"oakland-completes-another-segment-of-greenway-in-east-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355376\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Completes Another Segment of Greenway in East Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland and Alameda officials opened a new half-mile segment of greenway trail Wednesday morning. It runs under the BART tracks along San Leandro Street, heading north from Coliseum BART, from 69th Avenue to Seminary Avenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransportation systems are about connecting people,\u201d said Oakland DOT director Josh Rowan during a ribbon-cutting event for the new trail section. \u201cThis is our path to transit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Alameda County Transportation Commission\u2019s Farid Javandel and Councilmember Kevin Jenkins get ready to cut the ribbon. Photo: Streetsblog\/Rudick<\/p>\n

District 6 Councilmember Kevin Jenkins said the path will make the area safer. \u201cTraffic violence is one of the biggest complaints I hear.\u201d The stretch of San Leandro is part of Oakland\u2019s high-injury network, the 8 percent of streets that see 60 percent of severe and fatal crashes.<\/p>\n

Before the $4 million project, there was nothing there for cyclists but a painted shoulder, as seen in the before-and-after photos below:<\/p>\n

\"\"Photos: OaklandDOT<\/p>\n

Advocates hope the trail will eventually connect to protected bike lanes on perpendicular routes, connecting the trail to communities to the east and the shore to the west. \u201cMy niece lives up the street from here and has never even been to this area,\u201d said Walk Oakland Bike Oakland\u2019s Chris Hwang. She added that people are completely cut off from the shoreline by the dangerous traffic on San Leandro and the Nimitz freeway, even though the path is only about half a mile from San Leandro Bay. She hopes future connecting projects will remedy that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, this segment is just one of several that will eventually form the greater East Bay Greenway, something Bike East Bay started advocating for years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEventually this will form a greenway 30 miles long,\u201d explained Bike East Bay\u2019s Robert Prinz, also at the ribbon cutting. As seen in the above map, other segments, such as from 75th Ave to 85th Ave, already exist in Oakland. Additional segments are starting construction soon.<\/p>\n

Those segments, however, are getting built according to jurisdiction rather than utility. At Oakland\u2019s ribbon-cutting event, the city said this new greenway segment goes as far south as 75th. In reality, it ends just before the Coliseum BART station at 69th. After that, cyclists must use paint-only bike lanes or the sidewalk to actually reach the station.<\/p>\n

\"\"The greenway ends abruptly, just as it enters the footprint of the BART station. Photo: Streetsblog\/Rudick<\/p>\n

In addition, the bikeway is in a noisy location, thanks to the din of four lanes of loud traffic right next to it on San Leandro. Rowan referred to the whole area as a \u201ctraffic sewer.\u201d District 4 BART Director Robert Raburn, who was also at the event, said the original intention was to put the pathway on the opposite side of the BART tracks, along a Union Pacific right-of-way, where there would be more distance from the roadway. Unfortunately, Union Pacific, which still runs the occasional freight train on that spur, wasn\u2019t amenable.<\/p>\n

\"\"A rare boxcar delivery on the UP tracks on the opposite side from the greenway. Advocates had hoped to put the greenway on or next to that right-of-way, where there would be less traffic noise. Photo: Robert Raburn<\/p>\n

The city also planted some 60 trees along the greenway. The hope is that once they\u2019ve matured, it will help absorb some of the traffic noise and perhaps encourage drivers to go a bit slower.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s hoped the row of newly planted trees will help absorb some of the traffic noise, once they\u2019ve matured. Note that all drivers were significantly over the 35 mph speed limit. Photo: Streetsblog\/Rudick<\/p>\n

As to the problem of the pathway stopping just shy of the BART station, it was unclear if that will get addressed any time soon. Raburn said he\u2019ll inquire into BART working to improve the last bit into and past the station.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the next Oakland\u2011led segment will be constructed on East 12th St. between 35th and 54th Avenues, starting wintertime this year. The Alameda County Transportation Commission will complete the remaining Oakland portions of the trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland and Alameda officials opened a new half-mile segment of greenway trail Wednesday morning. It runs under the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,109921],"class_list":["post-355376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-promoted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355376","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=355376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}