There have now been 3 iterations of County design plans for the Santa Cruz/Alameda corridor.  The first were published in August 2017 and the next two were published in May and June of 2019.  Below are comparative views of some of those designs.

The key issue with the 2017 design plans was that they were done within a vacuum of input from our community and widely missed the mark of addressing the safety issues we have in the corridor.  Those plans were rejected by the newly formed Task Force in the last part of 2017.  

You may observe that the plans provided to the Task Force in May 2019 were unfortunately the same 2017 plan (Alt 3) that had been rejected in Fall of 2017.  The differeces were minor.    That was both frustrating and disappointing as it seems most of the work the Task Force had done in prior 20 months was ignored.  The Task Force spent valuable time documenting and discussing the safety issues.  Task Force members provided input and draft solution options for various traffic calming and other changes that are needed to solve the serious safety issues of the corridor. Yet it appears that the majority of this input was not incorporated.

In the slides immediately below, are the County images for comparing the May and June plans.  At the end of the page, a comparison of the rejected 2017 Alt3 plans with ‘new’ plans provided the Task Force.

To compare,  drag the control slider to the left or right to compare two views.