Project background
The project is partially funded by a grant from the San Mateo County Transportation Authority's Bicycle and Pedestrian Program and includes the following elements:
- Adding on-street bicycle lanes with horizontal buffers where roadway widths allow and green treatments in vehicle-bicycle interaction zones
- Closing sidewalk gaps
- Adding a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Atherton Channel
- Providing enhanced pedestrian crossing improvements to the Marsh Road-Haven Avenue-Bayfront Expressway intersection including:
- widened sidewalks
- replacement of curb ramps to comply with current ADA standards
- realigning the existing crosswalk on the northwest (Haven Avenue) leg of the intersection
- improving the existing median to provide a crossing refuge island.
To install bicycle lanes on Haven Avenue, on-street parking modifications will be required on a portion of Haven Avenue, as there is not sufficient width to install bicycle lanes and provide on-street parking on both sides of the street. City Council and both the Bicycle and Transportation Commissions reviewed and approved these improvements in October and August 2015.
A portion of the Haven Avenue Streetscape project will be designed and constructed by St. Anton, the residential developers for the multi-family apartments on Haven Avenue, as part of a required mitigation measure from the City’s Housing Element.