The Calm East Oakland Streets Project aims to create slow, calm, and inviting streets for people to walk or bike to neighborhood destinations such as schools, libraries, recreation centers, parks, and corner stores.

The Calm East Oakland Streets Project aims to create slow, calm, and inviting streets for people to walk or bike to neighborhood destinations such as schools, libraries, recreation centers, parks, and corner stores. Improving safety is top of mind, and the project team will fix broken residential streets and sidewalks by slowing vehicle speeds and decreasing cut-through traffic.

As part of the project, Alta supported the City of Oakland by developing more than six miles of concept designs for four neighborhood bike routes in East Oakland. The local community identified these routes as priority corridors while updating Oakland’s Bicycle Plan, Let’s Bike Oakland, which Alta led as the prime consultant. Using traffic calming, wayfinding, and street pavement resurfacing, the team is developing safer connections to local destinations. In addition to the concept design, Alta authored a successful $17.2 million Active Transportation Program grant application to fund detailed engineering and construction.