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Council adopts Imperial Avenue Complete Streets Plan to add bike, pedestrian and transit improvements
Summary
The City Council unanimously adopted a Complete Streets plan for Imperial Avenue that maps a phased concept from Adams Avenue to the northern city limit, including multi‑use paths, separated bike lanes in key segments, improved transit stops and pedestrian crossings.
The El Centro City Council adopted the Imperial Avenue Complete Streets Plan 5-0 on Feb. 4, endorsing a multi-segment concept to improve walking, bicycling, transit access and street greening along the corridor from Adams Avenue to the northern city limit.
The plan — funded through a Caltrans Sustainable Communities grant and developed by consulting firm K2A with community engagement led by Catherine Padilla & Associates — lays out a preferred 30%‑level design and an implementation roadmap intended to guide future engineering, grant applications and construction.
Jacob Leon, a K2A consultant, summarized the plan’s goals: increase safety and comfort for pedestrians and bicyclists, improve equity of access, support reliable transit, and preserve automobile operations where needed for this regional corridor. The recommended design breaks the corridor into three segments (Adams to Scott; Scott to…
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