Ord 1997-003 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

photographs of typical locations. Table 1 provides a summary of field collected data and a compendium of existing bike lanes in San Leandro. The City currently has a total of 7.4 miles of Class II bike lanes. Figure 3 is the Existing Bikeway Map. In addition to showing the types and locations of existing bikeways, Figure 3 also locates major bicycle activity centers such as schools, parks, and libraries. The Bay Trial is a regional hiking and bicycling trial around the perimeter of San Francisco and San Pablo bays. In San Leandro, the main component of the Bay Trail, the "spine trail ", is fixed along the shoreline, supported by "spur trails" that extends to points of interest such as the Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline and the San Leandro Marina. The Bay Trail is also shown in Figure 3. 1.6 Gaps The Bikeway Map shows that San Leandro currently lacks a continuous bikeway system that provides connecting bikeways through the City. The existing bike lanes are sporadic and do not significantly contribute to safe or convenient bicycle use. Table 1 identifies existing street segments with bike lanes in one direction but not the other such as San Leandro Boulevard between Marina Boulevard and Washington Avenue, and segments without bike lanes in between segments with bike lanes such as Alvarado Street between Thornton Street and Marina Boulevard. Besides gaps within the existing bikeway network, bikeways are also lacking on arteriallcollector streets that feed onto residential streets. For example, Farnsworth Street and Manor Boulevard serve as collectors of many residential streets but do not contain bike lanes nor are designated as bike routes. On a citywide level, no bikeway exists for a continuous ride from east to west that would connect the regional parks. No north -south bikeway exists through San Leandro that connects Oakland to San Lorenzo. 1.7 Constraints San Leandro has relatively few physical obstacles to accommodating a bicycle infrastructure. 8