📋 Tender Overview
Description:Design and construct a moveable bicycle/pedestrian bridge across the Oakland Estuary between Alameda's west end and
Oakland's Jack London Square. A PID will be completed by mid-2024.
The project will create a safe, accessible, and convenient all ages/all abilities facility, where currently the only existing
biking/walking facility is a two-way, three-foot-wide, shared-use pathway in the Posey Tube (SR 260) adjacent to vehicles
traveling 45 miles per hour or more. This narrow path has inadequate passing space for bicyclists and pedestrians and is
not Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant.
The project will reduce the barrier effect of the Oakland Estuary on bicycle and pedestrian travel between western Alameda
and downtown Oakland; improve multimodal connectivity between the two cities; encourage mode shift away from singleoccupant motor vehicle cross estuary trips; provide a no-cost estuary crossing to better serve equity priority and
disadvantaged communities in western Alameda, downtown Oakland and Oakland Chinatown; and increase resilience to
climate change and improve disaster recovery for Alameda residents. The project will address a major deficiency on State
Route (SR) 260 which does not provide standard, adequate bicycle and pedestrian access between two adjacent
metropolitan areas, will close a major gap in the Regional San Francisco Bay Trail network, and will meet the estimated
demand for bicycling and walking trips across the estuary.
Project web page: www.estuarybridge.org
