Broadway Avenue was identified as a key safe routes to school corridor in the Seaside & Marina Safe Walking & Biking to School: Complete Streets Plan, as it provides access to the majority of schools in the City of Seaside. Broadway Avenue is also an important commuter and transit route providing access to the greater Peninsula and Salinas.
In 2020, the City of Seaside received $600,000 in Regional Surface Transportation Program funding and a $12.04 Million Active Transportation Program grant to redesign Broadway Avenue connecting bicycle and pedestrian facilities on W. Broadway Avenue to General Jim Moore Blvd. The project includes converting most signalized intersections along Broadway Ave to roundabouts, adding bicycle facilities on both sides of the street and a protected path in front of MLK Jr. School of the Arts. Additional safe routes to school improvements will be made to Yosemite Ave to improve active transportation access to four schools.
The City of Seaside hired Kimley-Horn through a competitive process to assist with the development of project designs and environmental review. Community input is vital at this stage of the project to ensure the design meets the needs of the community and environmental concerns are addressed. The project team will begin seeking input on the project design and environmental review in Fall 2022 with the goal of completing this phase of the project by the end of January 2023.
Following the initial design and environmental phase, the project will go into the right-of-way certification and final design phases to be completed by April 2025. Construction is expected to begin in November 2025 and be completed by August 2027.
Attached are maps and drawings depicting the Broadway Ave Complete Street Concepts.