Resolution 13854CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13 8 5 4
RECOMMENDING THE INCLUSION OF PROJECTS IN THE ALAMEDA
COUNTYWIDE BICYCLE PLAN
WHEREAS, enhancing the City's bicycle infrastructure through a
combination of paths, bike lanes, and bike routes will provide encouragement for
bicycling and safer facilities; and
WHEREAS, the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency
(CMA) is undertaking an update of the Alameda Countywide Bicycle Plan; and
WHEREAS, inclusion in the countywide bicycle plan will enhance the
City's access to funding opportunities for these projects; and
WHEREAS, the following proposed bicycle facilities in the City that
would provide connections to destination points of countywide significance:
1) Feasibility study and capital costs for a bicycle /pedestrian estuary crossing from
Alameda's west end to Oakland;
2) Complete all segments of the Bay Trail located in the City of Alameda;
3) Completion of a cross -city bikeway through central Alameda, including the
following segments: Along Main Street from the Main Street ferry terminal to
Pacific Avenue, along Central Avenue from Pacific Avenue to Fernside
Boulevard, along Fernside Boulevard to the Bay Farm Island Bike Bridge, the
bridge itself, and along Doolittle Drive from the Bay Farm Island Bike Bridge to
the City's border with Oakland;
4) Completion of Bay Farm/Harbor Bay bikeways as follows:
Along Island Drive from Doolittle Drive to Mecartney Road, along Mecartney
Road from Island Drive to the Harbor Bay ferry teiininal.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Alameda recommends that the CMA include the projects described above in the
Alameda Countywide Bicycle Plan.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in the regular meeting of the City
Council on the 21st day of June, 2005, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese
and Mayor Johnson -'5.
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS: None.
None.
None.
IN WITNESS,' WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City
this 22nd day of June, 2005.
Lara Weisiger, City erk
City of Alameda