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Piedmont OKs $748,000 ACTC grant agreement for Moraga Avenue pedestrian safety upgrades
Summary
The City Council authorized the city administrator to execute a $748,000 Alameda County Transportation Commission grant agreement to fund pedestrian safety improvements at four Moraga Avenue intersections; the city will provide a roughly $250,000 local match toward a $998,000 project.
The Piedmont City Council on Aug. 18 authorized the city administrator to execute a grant agreement with the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC) for $748,000 to fund pedestrian safety work along Moraga Avenue. The council said the award will support improvements at four intersections: Ramona, Highland, Mesa and Red Rock.
The measure matters because the work addresses long-standing sight-distance and crossing-safety problems on a busy arterial used by motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, including commuters passing through Piedmont from Oakland. The council voted unanimously among members present; Council Member Long was absent.
City Engineer John Wenger told the council the project was identified in Piedmont’s 2014 Bike and Pedestrian Master Plan and subsequent safer-streets planning and that the city applied last fall after a funding notice from Alameda…
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