Active Transportation Plan

Thank you for sharing your input on connecting Auto Mall Parkway and Grimmer Boulevard to Lake Elizabeth. As you may know, the City has installed long stretches of “separated” bike lanes along Grimmer Boulevard between Fremont Boulevard (north) and Fremont Boulevard (south), and as part of new development in the Warm Springs Area, concrete separated bike lanes have been installed by developers in the eastbound direction to connect bicyclists to the Warm Springs BART station. This separated bike lane network is identified in the current Bicycle Master Plan, and it will continue to carry over into the new Active Transportation Plan (ATP). The City currently has a project under design to construct a new Class I path along the north side of Grimmer Boulevard between Fremont Boulevard (north) and Paseo Padre Parkway, which will connect users to Lake Elizabeth. For more information on this pathway project, please visit the project website at https://www.fremont.gov/government/departments/public-works/public-works-projects. The name of the project is the “Grimmer Boulevard Trail Extension Project.” Lastly, the new ATP will evaluate different bike lane separation devices (e.g., concrete curb segments) as part of the overall bikeway design guidance, which will guide further enhancement of the existing separated bike lanes along Grimmer Boulevard to improve user comfort.  

We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your overall walking and bicycling experience in the city, and identify specific locations that you would like to be considered for future improvements for bicycle and pedestrian travel on the new online interactive web map. Please sign up to the project mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development.

Thank you for sharing your question regarding bike lane usage. The City has conducted bicycle and pedestrian counts at key locations throughout the City over the past five years, and the counts do show that the number of pedestrians or bicyclists generally do increase when appropriate improvements have been constructed such that pedestrians or bicyclists feel that a “complete and comfortable” connection have been made to desired destinations. Given the overall cost, limited funding, and time required to implement such a comprehensive network, the ATP will provide recommendations and priorities for future bicycle facility investments and implementation. Public input received during the ATP development will be critical to ensure that the final recommendations and project priorities will meet the needs of the Fremont community. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your biking and walking experience and submit specific locations on the interactive web map where you see a need for future improvements. We also encourage you to share with members in your community to complete the online survey as well and provide their input. Please sign up to the project mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development process.

Thank you for sharing your input and request for protected bike parking. The installation of bike parking is currently implemented primarily by private developers as part of development projects, as bike parking is generally located on private property within a commercial center or office complex. The City recognizes that there are a number of existing office or commercial sites that don’t have protected bike parking facilities as they were developed prior to when the current bike parking requirements were adopted. Based on public input and existing inventory information, the ATP will look at options and priorities for the implementation of future bicycle parking facilities both within public right of way and on private property. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your overall experience walking and biking in the City, and submit specific locations on the online interactive map where you see existing deficiencies or need for future improvements for walking and bicycling. We also encourage you to share with members in your community to complete the online survey as well and provide their input. Please sign up to the project mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development process.

Thank you for sharing your input and request for sidewalk maintenance and repair. Based on public input, the ATP will include recommendations and priorities for new sidewalk installation and addressing existing sidewalk deficiencies. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey and using the new online interactive map about your walking experience where you can pinpoint locations that you see existing deficiencies and need for future improvements. We also encourage you to share with members in your community to complete the online survey as well and provide their input. Please sign up to the project mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development process.

A: We are very sorry to hear about your experience biking along Fremont Boulevard near Washington High School. As guided by the City’s Mobility Action Plan and Vision Zero Action Plan, our primary goal for all projects is to enhance the safety, comfort, and convenience for all street users, and we continuously work to adjust our roadway design towards that goal. As part of the ATP development process, design guidelines, including guidance around the type of separation provided between bike lanes and vehicle lanes, will be reviewed and updated to incorporate the latest best practices and options. The City was recently awarded state transportation grant funding to supplement the existing green bollards used for separated bikeways with concrete curbs at multiple locations around the City. The goal is to improve the durability of the separation devices and increase user comfort along these bikeways. Though as you can imagine, the cost to implement similar improvements Citywide is extremely high, so it is important for the ATP team to hear from the community to help prioritize future project implementation and funding investments. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your experience and submit the locations and recommendations that you would like to be considered for future improvements for bicycle and pedestrian travel. Please sign up for the ATP mailing list at bit.ly/ATP-mailing-list to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development. 

A: Thank you for providing your input regarding pedestrian safety. The ATP project will be incorporating the latest design practices, policies, and infrastructure planning to improve safety, comfort, and convenience for all active transportation modes (including walking, bicycling and micromobility), with the vision of developing a citywide network that is safe, convenient, connected, and comfortable for pedestrians and bicyclists of all ages and abilities. This may include recommendations to review best practice policies on e-bike use on multi-use trails, and review design practices around spaces that are intended to be shared by pedestrians, scooters or bicyclists. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your experience and submit the locations and recommendations that you would like to be considered for future improvements for bicycle and pedestrian travel. Please sign up for the ATP mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development. 

A: Thank you for sharing your input on upgrading the bike lanes on Paseo Padre Parkway. Identification of roadways for possible future implementation of separated bikeway is one element that will be assessed through the ATP development. As you can imagine, the cost for bikeway separation devices is quite high given the long distances that many of the bikeway corridors extend. As such, it is important for the ATP team to hear from the community to help identify and prioritize roadway corridors for future funding investments and project implementation. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your experience and submit the locations and recommendations that you would like to be considered for future improvements for bicycle and pedestrian travel. Please sign up for the ATP mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout the ATP development.

A: Thank you for sharing your input on connecting the Fremont BART station, Fremont Downtown, Centerville, Niles and Ardenwood Historic Farm to the Alameda Creek Trail. The ATP will incorporate recommendations identified in the Trails Strategy Plan, which includes locations of existing connector paths as well as recommendations for future connector paths to the Alameda Creek Trail. We encourage you to provide input on specific locations where you feel are currently barriers between the Alameda Creek Trail and various destinations in the City on the upcoming interactive web map on the ATP project webpage. Please sign up to the project mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date on when the online interactive map is available for public use.

A: Thank you for submitting your input regarding Lotus Pond Common. Lotus Pond Common in Fremont is a private road outside of the City’s control. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your experience and submit the locations that you would like to be considered for future improvements for bicycle and pedestrian travel. Please sign up on the ATP mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout this Plan development.  

A: Thank you for submitting your question regarding requiring transportation demand management (TDM) measures such as car-share services for high-density housing in TOD areas. As a planning document, the ATP is likely not going to define specific requirements for providing TDM measures for project types, but it may identify the need for developing or updating the City’s TDM policy for certain development types to promote active transportation and other alternative travel modes as a follow-up action item. We encourage you to continue to provide input on the ATP online survey about your experience and submit suggestions that you would like to be considered for future improvements for bicycle and pedestrian travel. Please sign up on the ATP mailing list at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAFREMONT/signup/36435 to stay up to date for more opportunities to provide your input throughout this Plan development.