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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-02-14 | 11 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m. Victoria Williams: I'm going to ask Gail to do that. She's much more knowledgeable about that. Jennifer Roloff: I don't know anything about it. Is it part of the loop already? Is expansion of the loop, I don't know. Gail Payne: Okay. So the Cross Alameda Trail, is a trail that is proposed and it's a path. Jennifer Roloff: Okay. I am familiar with that outside of this commission. How does that fit in with this? Gail Payne: Okay. So it's a path that will go from Alameda Point all the way to the Fruitvale Miller-Sweeney Bridge and it'll be almost four miles long. And the part that this program is helping to fund is the part from where Jean Sweeney, Cross Alameda Trail is already basically built, west to Alameda Point Main Street. So that is an underfunded project. And the original part that was funded was just a multi-use trail that would have been shared by people bicycling and walking. When we did the outreach for that effort, people really said, "Look, we don't want a multi-use trail. I'm blind, I want to walk and I don't want to have bicycles near me, bicyclists say, "I don't want to be near pedestrians," that this is what we heard time and again. Gail Payne: So we expanded that project and created not just a bike-way from the Jean Sweeney to Alameda Point, a separate bike-way. We also created a path, well, a walkway as well as a jogging path. So now that cost more money. So now it's underfunded. So that's why we really are looking at other sources and this is a perfect source of money because people who are blind or disabled in whatever way will benefit, and people who are moving slower, seniors will benefit from having a separate path. This is a crown jewel project for Alameda that I don't think Alameda's ever had such a great project come to us. I feel like it's worth it everyone to contribute a little bit. This is a small thing that we can do for this project. Jenn Barrett: Is this kind of like how we have on Shoreline Drive, where you've got the walking and then the bike and then the cars? Gail Payne: It's mainly a path that's in the dirt path. Jenn Barrett: Okay, so it's not connected, it's not near the road? Gail Payne: No, only for a very short time, right by where Starbucks is, because it's a constrained right of way. But the majority of it, from Webster Street to Alameda Point, is in that dirt. It's just a path. Three different paths, jogging path, a bike-way path, and a walkway path. Beth Kenny: When you say "dirt", is it going to stay dirt, because it would mean, for accessibilities reasons, we'd want a paved Gail Payne: Right, I see what you're saying. I was not being clear. Right now, it's that dirt patch that's on the other side of the College of Alameda, on Appezzato Parkway. And right now, it's just nothing except dirt. So we will make it an asphalt walkway and an asphalt bike-way, and then a 02/14/18 Page 11 of 24 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf |