Welcome to the El Camino Real Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plan!
The Town of Colma received a grant from the Caltrans Sustainable Communities Program to improve safety and mobility for people who walk and bike along El Camino Real, and to increase access to public transportation. Currently, El Camino Real in Colma has many challenges, particularly for those walking and biking. To address this, we are developing a draft bicycle and pedestrian improvement plan. Improvements to the corridor will enhance safety, encourage the use of sustainable transportation, and provide better connectivity to BART stations and bus stops to improve overall quality of life.
What’s Happening Now?
We have selected a concept design based on community input and Caltrans feedback. Watch our video and view the design below. You can also see what people thought about the design concept by viewing this map that we hosted in October 2020.
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About the Plan
The El Camino Real Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plan will identify walking and biking improvements on El Camino Real in Colma, from Daly City to South San Francisco. We want to enhance comfort, safety, access, and convenience for people walking and biking. Improving ways to walk and bike not only enhances your overall quality of life, but also helps us reach our sustainability goals!
Learn more about the planWhy do we need the plan?
Segments of El Camino Real in Colma are challenging to access by walking, biking, or public transit. El Camino Real has no bicycle facilities and, in some areas, there are no walkways or the walking paths are not accessible for all people. This lack of multimodal facilities presents a barrier for safe and efficient travel. This plan will assess ways for how the corridor can be improved to provide safe paths of travel for people who choose to walk or bike.
What's being considered in the plan?
The plan will identify ways for improving walking and biking in the Town of Colma and will consider safety, comfort, accessibility, and convenience. Traffic congestion and parking occupancy levels will also be considered.
What is the process for developing the plan?
The plan will be developed in partnership with Caltrans and local and regional stakeholders. We will also incorporate input from the community, which we will gather at different stages throughout the process. First, we reviewed the existing transportation conditions along the corridor and asked the community to identify their priorities for El Camino Real. Based on these findings, we developed three conceptual design alternatives for El Camino Real. In March 2020, we presented these concepts to the community, Caltrans, and City Council to identify a preferred design. After this, we started preparing a Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Plan which we will present to Caltrans and City Council for approval. Finally, we will work with Caltrans to identify potential funding sources for implementation.
How will the plan be used?
The plan will outline the infrastructure changes along El Camino Real that are needed to improve walking and biking along the corridor. The final plan will include a preliminary cost estimate, an implementation strategy, design concept, potential funding sources, partnerships and programs. We will use the plan for guidance on how and when recommendations will be implemented.
What we heard
In 2019, we reached out to the Colma community to understand your experience traveling on El Camino Real in Colma. We heard a lot of valuable information—thank you for partcipating! We asked for your input on project goals and improvements the community would like to see prioritized along El Camino Real in Colma.
We also asked you to share specific improvements you would like to see at certain locations, and barriers that prevent you from traveling by bike or on foot in this area. We reviewed those, along with recommendations from previous studies and existing transportation conditions.
Corridor Alternatives
In early 2020, we shared cross‐section alternatives that we were considering to improve travel on El Camino Real. There were alternatives for Segment A, from Albert M Teglia Boulevard to Mission Road, and Segment B, from Mission Road to Arlington Drive.
We learned that, for Segment A, the community highly preferred the alternative that removes a vehicle travel lane in each direction to provide space for a protected bike lane and sidewalk, separated from the car lanes by landscaping. For Segment B, the community showed equal preference for the alternatives with and without a road diet but agreed that bicycle and pedestrian facilities need to be added on this segment. Stakeholders strongly preferred the option to maintain the two existing travel lanes on Segment B, voicing concerns about traffic congestion and connectivity if a travel lane were removed in each direction. The section shows how these preferences became a project design.
Resources
Community outreach meetings and activities
Throughout this project, we've provided multiple in-person opportunities to provide feedback, including tabling at the Colma BART station and hosting community meetings uring phases 1 and 2 of outreach. We appreciate the community input we received at this events.
We are conducting additional community outreach virtually in September/October 2020 to get a feedback from the community on the design concept.
Project Documents and Related Efforts
Project documents
- Project Goals and Vision
- California Transportation Plan 2040
- California State Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan
- Caltrans District 4 Bicycle Plan
Related planning efforts
Contact Us
Send us a question or comment
Interested in learning more about the project?
Contact: Abdulkader Hashem
Associate Engineer/Project Manager
1198 El Camino Real, Colma, CA 94014
www.colma.ca.gov
ahashem@colma.ca.gov
650.757.8897
