The 14th Street corridor is a primary bike access route for connecting West Oakland to Lake Merritt. The 14th Street Safe Route project intends to improve the safety of bike, pedestrian, and vehicular access. Supported by an ATP Grant (Safe Routes in the City), the 14th Street corridor offered the City a rare opportunity to create a multi-modal access corridor route with ATP/traffic calming, The BKF team worked together to complete a traffic operational analysis to support implementation of a 4-lane roadway diet along the corridor from West Oakland to Lake Merritt in order to incorporate multi-modal facilities.
BKF assisted the City with stakeholder coordination. Existing constraints include utilities and sub-sidewalk basements which require the project team to develop unique solutions to improve the bicycle/pedestrian connectivity, meet current bicycle/accessibility standards while maintaining street drainage/functionality.
BKF completed final design of the improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities by implementing a road diet, consisting of Class IV raised bike lanes in both directions with protected intersections. Additional improvements include raised bus islands, new curb ramps, 10 signal modifications, green infrastructure and decorative necklace lighting to help demarcate the corridor.
