"People who live, work, or shop on Oakland's San Pablo Avenue will have to wait a little longer to see significant infrastructure changes to the busy arterial street. County officials say the bus and bike lane portions of a major corridor project will take four years longer than initially planned. The San Pablo Avenue corridor project includes three redesigned sections of the thoroughfare that connects Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, and Albany:"
"Staff at the Alameda County Transportation Commission, the agency that distributes state dollars to cities and manages the project, estimated in November 2022 that this part of the plan would cost $73 million and take about five years to implement, starting in 2026. But they now say it will take longer and cost more. The revised plan is for the bus and bike lane project to break ground in 2030, at a total cost of $250 million."
Construction of protected bike lanes and a red-painted bus lane on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland has been delayed four years and the budget has risen sharply. The corridor project includes improved bike corridors on parallel local roads, safety enhancements with median refuge islands and bulbouts in Berkeley and Albany, and protected lanes and a bus lane in Oakland, Emeryville, and South Berkeley. The bus-and-bike-lane element in Oakland shifted from a quick-build approach to a full capital project using durable materials and intensive treatments, increasing safety, cost, and schedule to 2030 and $250 million.
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