From EBBC:
The Hearst Avenue Bikeway Project is a proposal to perform a road diet on Hearst Avenue and install many much-needed bike and pedestrian improvements. Staff are proposing to reduce the road from 4 lanes to 2 lanes, install bike lanes, install a center median to help pedestrian crossing, redo the intersection of Hearst at Arch/LeConte, install Berkeley's first buffered bike lane, add green bike bikeway features including advance stop boxes, and more.
We need your support and attendance at this meeting to convince the City to finally make Hearst Avenue a safe street to walk across and a safe street to bike on. See you there.
The City of Berkeley is working with UC Berkeley on many exciting bicycle and pedestrian improvements to Hearst Avenue, between Shattuck Ave and Gayley Road, the entire north side of campus. Most exciting is a road diet, bringing Hearst down from 4 lanes in each direction to 2 lanes with bike lanes and a center median. A road diet not only makes pedestrian crossings much safer and allows space for bike lanes, it also improves traffic flow significantly. Advocates will also get green bike lanes and advance stop boxes at the intersection of Hearst and Oxford, and possibly at the intersection with Le Conte. East of Le Conte, a separated buffered bike lane and a new sidewalk is proposed, up to Euclid and North Gate. In the downhill direction, green-backed bike sharrows are proposed in a shared lane arrangement, which should be sufficient given the downhill on this stretch of Hearst.
More information on the Hearst Avenue Corridor Project.
Background information on Hearst Avenue Bike Lanes.
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