From the Livable City newsletter of 9/20/06. Big thanks to City Staff for all their hard work on this funding application (Marshall Foster, Manito Velasco, Kris Opbroek, Dan Provence, anyone I missed). This is excellent news & means that the funding is in place to begin implementing the plan from 15th through 19th!!!

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On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Planning Commission awarded $2.6 million to the City’s Valencia Street Project. Livable City has been working with neighbors, transportation advocates, and public agencies for over a year to make sure that the planned resurfacing of the street, scheduled for the second half of 2007, brings with it improvements for pedestrians and cyclists as well. The current plan, developed by a multi-agency team coordinated by the Department of Public Works, includes wider sidewalks (up to 5′ wider), corner bulb outs, wider bike lanes, street trees, better lighting, public art, and a narrower roadway with left-turn pockets at key intersections.

The MTC funding should allow the city to add the bicycle, pedestrian, and streetscape improvements from 15th to 19th streets. The northern end of the Valencia, from Market to Duboce, should also receive streetscape improvements from surplus Octavia Boulevard funds.

(Thanks to Tom Radulovich & Livable City for the write up)

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