Union City plans better bike paths
Grant-funded project connecting east and west sides of town to be finished by 2009
By Matthew Artz STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 07/31/2007 02:29:01 AM PDT
UNION CITY — The city has received a $23 550 grant to complete a bicycle route connecting the town’s east and west sides.
The project which is scheduled for completion in 2009 involves restriping several city streets to include designated bike lanes or adding signs designed to make them safer for cyclists riding with traffic.
Union City already has a bicycle route that runs under Interstate 880 connecting Almaden Boulevard on the east side of town and San Andreas Drive on the west side.
On the east side the project involves improvements to a nearly half-mile stretch of Almaden connecting the bike lane on Alvarado-Niles Road with the underground path.
Most of the project centers in the Casa Verde neighborhood west of the freeway. The city will install bike lanes or new signs and street markings on about six streets reminding motorists to share the road with cyclists. Improved bicycle access to Union Landing will be offered via Santa Maria Drive.
The project funded by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the first to be implemented under the city’s recently approved pedestrian and bicycle plan.
The city won’t start work on the project until November 2008 because city engineers are busy with other projects officials said.