California Street Road Diet - Stockton

The California Street Road Diet*  in Stockton extends from Alpine Avenue to El Dorado Street and is intended to be Stockton’s bicycle spine to connect North and Central Stockton through downtown with South Stockton. This north-south corridor will connect seven east-west backbone bicycle features throughout Stockton using various types of bike lanes in the Stockton Bicycle Master Plan 2017 update, including those physically separated from roadways. This project will create low-stress bikeways, while improving multimodal access and safety throughout the corridor. It improves access to or near 23 schools, seven parks, seven essential services destination, one theater, and an Amtrak station.

* “A Road Diet, or roadway reconfiguration, can improve safety, calm traffic, provide better mobility and access for all road users, and enhance overall quality of life. A Road Diet typically involves converting an existing four-lane undivided roadway to a three-lane roadway consisting of two through lanes and a center two-way, left-turn lane (TWLTL).” – U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration.

Safe Routes to School - Stockton

Several projects are among the highest priority in the city’s Safe Routes to School Plan based on the potential for providing equity for disadvantaged neighborhoods and schools, increasing walking and biking to school over other transportation modes, increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety, improving student health, and project readiness. The projects will construct crossings and sidewalks throughout Stockton, including new raised medians, curb and gutter, curb ramps and high visibility crosswalk signing and striping to improve safety, closing gaps in existing sidewalks, and accessibility for pedestrians. Streets will be restriped to provide new bicycle amenities and calm traffic along priority routes to schools in Stockton’s SRTS Plan.

Central Stockton Road Diet - Stockton

The Central Stockton Road Diet and Striping Connections Project in Stockton will provide multiple bicycle features in central Stockton that will create low-stress bicycle amenities to improve intercity connectivity. These would be provided on Monte Diablo Avenue/Acacia Street, Madison Street and Fremont Street. The existing two-lane Monte Diablo Avenue/Acacia Street generally has parking located along both sides of the street. The preferred, low-stress alternative would add on-street Class II bicycle lanes.