TRANSPORTATION E-NEWS ALAMEDA County Tra nsportation ALAMEDA CTC REPORTS Commission

PLAN • FUND • DELIVER NOVEMBER 2013

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ART DAO We Moved! Expanding Choices - Improving Communities, Health and the Environment Alameda CTC is now investments in active transportation Wieckowski, who authored AB 1086, located at Welcome to the November (walking and biking) as well as transit which allowed Alameda CTC to place 1111 Broadway, Suite 800 edition of and paratransit, and safe and efficient Measure B1 on the ballot last November. Alameda CTC streets, roads and highways. Assemblymember Wieckowski is an Oakland, CA 94607 Alameda CTC spends taxpayer important champion of transportation Reports! dollars wisely and over the past in the Bay Area, and his dedication Since 1986, voters decade has quadrupled the buying continues. This session he sponsored in Alameda County power of our local tax dollar AB 210, which allows both Alameda have supported a steady stream of local investments by attracting state and and Contra Costa counties to seek funding to support local transportation federal funds, providing increased transportation sales tax measures in the improvements. The local sales tax for transportation choices to meet the coming years, and was signed In this Issue transportation (Measure B), and its needs of our diverse county. by Governor Brown in late August. Transportation Expenditure Plan, was As a direct result of his efforts, the extended by voters in 2000 (with 81.5% This fall we celebrated projects and Alameda CTC approved returning Beth Walukas to Retire support). Since then, Alameda CTC has programs that expand transportation to voters in November 2014 with invested in voter-approved projects choices, including the East Bay a new sales tax measure. Greenway, Safe Routes to Schools and Assemblymember Wieckowski told Returning to Voters: Planning and programs throughout the county that expand transportation choices, the 4th Bore of the Caldecott Tunnel — the Commission, “I live here, and and Funding Improvements for improve safety, increase efficiency and all in close collaboration with partners I want you to succeed.” Thank you, the Future support economic development. For throughout the region. Read about each Assemblymember, for providing more than a decade, Alameda CTC has of these below. Alameda County this opportunity. I Construction Begins on the received 100% clean audits, and has also want to thank and congratulate At the October Commission meeting Beth Walukas for her service to East Bay Greenway been at the forefront of diversifying transportation to include significant we honored Assemblymember Bob Alameda County and on her retirement.

Caldecott 4th Bore Opens Beth Walukas to Retire Alameda CTC hosts State Beth Walukas, 2012 Transportation Expenditure Plan, Freight Advisory Committee Beth has been integral to the Alameda CTC’s development of Alameda County’s key which will go before voters again in Deputy Director transportation planning documents, November 2014, and the recently- Community Voice: of Planning, is including the Countywide Transportation approved 2013 Congestion Management Alameda CTC’s Vice Chair retiring next Plan, which guides transportation Program, which includes strategies to Rebecca Kaplan month after many investments in Alameda County over assess and monitor the performance of years of dedicated a 28-year horizon. The plan, approved the county’s multimodal transportation service to Alameda last year, lays out a strategy for meeting system, address congestion and Guaranteed Ride Home County. Beth has transportation needs for all users in improve the performance of the system, Program Change Beginning served Alameda Alameda County and includes projects and strengthen the integration of January 2014 County since 1995, performing short and for local streets and roads, freeways, transportation and land use planning. long range planning that sets the stage public transit (paratransit, buses, BART, Please join us at our December 5 for funding allocations from Alameda Commission meeting to wish Beth a International Walk and Roll rails, ferries), as well as facilities and CTC. Beth’s comprehensive knowledge programs to support bicycling and fond farewell. to School Day - Getting Kids of Alameda County, her extensive agency walking as identified in Alameda CTC’s Active Countywide partnerships, and her daily contributions Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. Beth was to planning will be truly missed. also integral to the development of the On the Move - Around Alameda County: Building Healthy, Mobile, Independent Returning to Voters Communities PLANNING AND FUNDING IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE FUTURE The Alameda CTC Commission voted to be approved by the Commission fixes roads and highways and improves last month to return to voters in on December 5 for placement on transportation connections to jobs November 2014 with a transportation the ballot in November 2014. The and schools. If approved by voters sales tax measure. If approved by TEP is a detailed plan that outlines in November 2014, this $7.8 billion 66.67% of voters, it will implement investments in transportation projects investment will create and support local What’s Ahead the Transportation Expenditure that enhance services and keep fares high quality jobs and attract extensive Plan (TEP) that was developed with affordable for seniors, students and funding from state and federal sources to significant public input and is expected disabled passengers, expands BART, more than double our local investment. Alameda CTC Meeting and Open House — December 5 Construction Begins on the East Bay Greenway Association of Pedestrian Construction began last month on the roughly parallel to the BART tracks and Bicycle Professionals East Bay Greenway Project, a half-mile through Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward Webinar at Alameda CTC — Class 1 bicycle and pedestrian path and unincorporated Alameda County. December 18 that runs from the Oakland Coliseum/ Airport BART Station to 85th Avenue The East Bay Greenway project is in Oakland. This is the first segment designed to improve critical pedestrian of the planned 12-mile mixed use and bicycle access to intermodal transit www.alamedactc.org path connecting schools, businesses, hubs and BART, by providing a safe, community centers and transit, running accessible pedestrian and bicycle trail CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON THE EAST BATY GREENWAY CONT’D

to encourage use of alternate modes health, sustainability and community partnerships that enabled this important of transportation. By linking together pride. On October 4, 2013, Alameda CTC project to move forward. This section of many smaller parks, schoolyards, bike and the East Bay Regional Park District the East Bay Greenway is funded by a US trails, and community destinations, (EBRPD) hosted a groundbreaking DOT TIGER II Grant, EBRPD’s Measure the East Bay Greenway will create new for the East Bay Greenway project and WW and Alameda CTC’s Measure B. The Caldecott 4th Bore “ opportunities for recreation, public celebrated the local, state and federal is an excellent example of multi-agency and multi- Caldecott 4th Bore Opens county collaboration. RECIPIENT OF ONE OF THE NATION’S LARGEST RECOVERY ACT GRANTS Working together, we This past weekend, the 4th Bore of opening celebration, lauding the success example of multi-agency and multi- prioritized efficiency and the Caldecott Tunnel opened, on time of this investment. Proposition 1B, a county collaboration,” said Alameda CTC safety, and leveraged and under budget. While no Measure B 2006 voter-approved state transportation Chair Supervisor Scott Haggerty. local and regional funds were used for the tunnel, bond, provided $11 million for the “Working together, we prioritized Alameda CTC helped to program State project. The remaining project funds efficiency and safety, and leveraged local funding to support this Transportation Improvement Program are from Contra Costa County’s local and regional funding to support this major transportation funds for this important regional project. transportation sales tax (Measure J) major transportation improvement.” The four-year, $417 million project was passed by Contra Costa voters in 2004, Last year, we celebrated the young improvement.” the recipient of one of the largest Federal which provided $125 million, and Alameda County artists whose designs —SCOTT HAGGERTY, Recovery Act grants in the nation, and Regional Measure 2 (Bay Area bridge were chosen to adorn the Alameda Alameda CTC Chair US Department of Transportation tolls), which provided $50 million. County side of the new tunnel as the Secretary Anthony Foxx joined the “The Caldecott 4th Bore is an excellent overhead medallions.

Community Voice Alameda CTC Hosts State MEET ALAMEDA CTC’S VICE CHAIR REBECCA KAPLAN Freight Advisory Committee As Oakland’s City Council President Pro to improve, maintain and operate our A joint project of Tem, and Vice Chair of the Alameda growing transportation system – and the City of Oakland County Transportation Commission, make it easier for people to get around. and AC Transit, Commissioner Kaplan spends a lot of Our work towards smoother roads will “The B” is a success time traveling throughout Alameda also reduce wear and tear – and other story for County. As an avid bicyclist, she is problems – for cars, trucks and bikes. modernizing and On September 18, 2013, excited by the Commission’s work to expanding transit “The Alameda CTC is dedicated to Alameda CTC hosted the create the next generation of bikeways – to improve air along with a continued, concerted effort modernizing and improving service for quality and expand California Freight Advisory in local street and road repair. our growing transit network – like BART economic opportunity. Committee. Alameda CTC and AC Transit – which will create a Executive Director Art Dao is “By filling potholes, we create local stronger economic future for our region. “And I’m proud to support the a member of this statewide jobs – and enhance safety for bicyclists, One great example is the free Broadway creation of a bike station in downtown committee charged with pedestrians and drivers alike,” said Shuttle – “The B” – which connects Oakland – near 19th Street BART – Commissioner Kaplan. “I’m proud to growing areas like Jack London Square, where people will be able to safely store advising the state on the support Alameda CTC’s commitment to Uptown and Lake Merritt with vital and service their bicycles.” development of a State creating jobs and investing in projects BART and ferry transit hubs. Freight Mobility Plan. Alameda CTC is also working on freight mobility at the local level, Guaranteed Ride Home Program Change creating a Goods Movement CHANGES TO THE GUARANTEED RIDE HOME PROGRAM BEGINNING JANUARY 2014 Collaborative and overseeing The Alameda County Guaranteed To better ensure program participants Why the change? technical studies that will Ride Home Program does just what have access to a Guaranteed Ride Home • Participants will have instant access result in the development of it says: it guarantees you a ride home (GRH) if and when they need it, from work if you have an emergency Alameda CTC will be changing the to rides home without the need of a an Alameda Countywide and you have made the effort to avoid GRH program from a voucher to a physical voucher. Goods Movement Plan. Local commuting alone in your car. You can reimbursement program, similar to • Alameda CTC’s paper footprint will plans will be coordinated feel comfortable taking the bus, train, or programs in San Francisco and Contra be reduced by eliminating frequent with the regional, state and ferry, carpooling, vanpooling, walking, or Costa counties. This will eliminate the mailings and print vouchers federal freight planning bicycling to work, knowing that you will need for participants to have a voucher efforts. The Goods Movement have a ride home in case of illness, family in order to use the program. Please stay tuned for more information crisis, unscheduled overtime, or a missed Collaborative will launch in in the upcoming weeks about this rideshare trip. The program is free and change. To learn more information and January 2014, with meaningful open to anyone who works in Alameda to sign up for the free Guaranteed Ride engagement from interest County who is pre-registered (your Home Program, go to http://www.grh. groups, including public employer does not need to be registered). alamedactc.org. and private organizations, economic development On the Move—Around Alameda County agencies, and environment, health and community groups. Policy and advocacy Building Healthy, Mobile, Seniors are rapidly adopting technology, funding seven- meetings will continue Independent Communities: with more than half using the internet fold, allowing for throughout 2014 and a On October 7, Alameda CTC and its and email, a third using social media increased rides, Countywide Goods Movement Paratransit Advisory and Planning such as Facebook, and almost 70% shuttle programs, Committee (PAPCO) celebrated 11 years owning a mobile phone. Of those phones, same-day Plan is expected to be of providing specialized transportation about half are “smartphones” able to transportation adopted in fall 2015. for seniors and people with disabilities in connect to the internet. programs, grants, Alameda County at its Annual Mobility and more. Since Learn more online about Workshop. The workshop focused Seniors and people with disabilities 2000, Measure B contracting opportunities, the on keeping seniors and people with need to be able to rely on a safe and funding has Executive Director’s report, and disabilities functioning with maximum comfortable ride, arranged on the same provided 25% of all Alameda County trips our calendar of events at independence, and encouraging health day as the trip, and arriving on time at for seniors and people with disabilities www.alamedactc.org and social networks. Presentations their destination. Using a smartphone, through 11 city-based programs as well Alameda CTC focused on how new technology and they can arrange real-time taxi services, as Union City Paratransit, East Bay 1111 Broadway, Suite 800 innovative design offer new opportunities real-time ridesharing and real-time Paratransit, and WHEELS ADA- Oakland, CA 94607 in mobility (focusing on smartphone- ride services. mandated paratransit programs. Since based services and driverless cars), the 2002, nearly $100 million in tax revenue facebook.com/AlamedaCTC ways these technologies can fill gaps Funding for transportation for seniors has provided over 900,000 trips per in special needs transportation, and and people with disabilities has been year. By the end of 2013, close to ten changes in policies affecting people a hallmark of Measure B, which, when million rides will have been provided @AlamedaCTC with disabilities and seniors. passed in 2000, increased this since 2002.