Thank you for reporting your concerns about street safety in Alameda. The City is working to launch the Fernside Blvd Traffic Calming & Bikeways Project, which aims to create design concepts to update this important corridor. Your report will be shared with project managers. Please join the Fernside mailing list at www.alamedaca.gov/subscribe and watch for a notice for the first public event, likely in early December.

The Active Transportation Plan, adopted December 2022, shows separated bike lanes along Fernside constructed by 2030. Bike lanes with physical barriers on Fernside would stop drivers from passing in the bike lane, and would help reduce auto speeds, addressing two big safety concerns we hear about this area of Fernside. We encourage you to join a mailing list to be involved when the City starts this planning: go to www.alamedaca.gov/subscribe and select the Active Transportation Plan and/or Transportation General Interest mailing lists.

The Police Department also prioritizes traffic enforcement along this stretch of Fernside. A map of 2022 traffic stop locations is on page 15 of the Vision Zero Annual Report: https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/transportation/vision-zero/2022visionzeroannualreport_3-10-2023.pdf

Your report will help inform the City of Alameda’s work to achieve our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries. Staff will retain your report and refer to it the next time we undertake a project on this street, whether it is pavement resurfacing or a corridor update. For selection of new safety improvement projects, the City refers to High Injury Corridors, equity indicators, Active Transportation Plan projects, and street resurfacing needs, augmented by Street Safety Concerns. See the links below for more information.
- Check whether your street is on a High Injury Corridor: www.alamedaca.gov/visionzero#section-4
- See the pavement resurfacing schedule: www.alamedaca.gov/pavement
- Check whether your street is slated for improvements by 2030 as part of the Active Transportation Plan: www.activealameda.org/files/sharedassets/transport/table-10_2030-infrastructure-plan.pdf
- Review the City’s current transportation projects and work plan: www.alamedaca.gov/saferstreets
- Join the transportation mailing list(s) that interest you: www.alamedaca.gov/subscribe