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Staff seeks feedback on three Holborn Boulevard concepts amid community concerns about traffic diversion
Summary
City staff presented Phase 2 concepts for Holborn Boulevard — three alternatives that range from bike-centered designs to full road diets — and said they had received more than 120 public comments; commissioners pressed staff for traffic-analysis details and lane-width feasibility before a fall recommendation to select a preferred alternative.
City staff presented Phase 2 of the Holborn Boulevard mobility plan to the Active Transportation Commission on June 18, outlining three draft concepts and a toolbox of interventions intended to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety along a broad commercial corridor.
The presentation, led by associate planner Lisa Wheels and city project staff, covered the study area limits, the corridor’s safety deficiencies and three broad concept alternatives: one-way separated bike lanes, two-way separated bike lanes and lower-change alternatives that keep existing through-lane capacity while adding multimodal space. Staff said the work is funded by a Caltrans Sustainable Communities grant and that they will return in the fall with traffic-impact analysis and a recommended alternative for City Council review in early 2027.
Why it matters: the corridor combines high traffic volumes, transit stops and several at-grade rail and highway crossings, and staff told the commission the stretch is on the city’s high-injury network. Improving crossings, filling sidewalk gaps and creating separated bike lanes are intended to reduce deaths and severe injuries and improve multimodal access to commercial and transit hubs.
Staff described an outreach campaign that included door-hanging flyers, focused focus groups, a month-long pop-up workshop and an online engagement forum. “Hemos recibido más de 120 comentarios,” Lisa Wheels said, summarizing community feedback that largely supported crosswalk improvements, wider sidewalks and separated bike facilities while expressing mixed views on reducing vehicular lane width.
Public comment reflected that division. Dan Allison, who identified himself as a District 4 resident, said he has not yet studied the full plan in detail and questioned whether nearby neighborhood streets could safely absorb diverted traffic, noting that “no hay calles paralelas” in parts of the corridor. Commissioners pressed staff on the timing and scope of traffic studies and on whether lane reductions would reduce speed or primarily shift volumes.
Staff responded that technical analyses are ongoing and that concepts were intentionally presented at this stage to collect community preference while traffic modeling continues. Staff said analysis will examine queue lengths, peak backups and distribution of diverted trips, and promised to include additional volume figures (not just percent changes) in forthcoming appendices.
What’s next: staff will incorporate community feedback and the traffic-analysis results into a preferred alternative and return to the commission this fall; City Council submittal is expected in early 2027. The commission did not take a formal vote on the Holborn concepts at the meeting.
