DATE: May 25, 2021
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Public Works
SUBJECT
I-880/Whipple Road and I-880/Industrial Pkwy Interchange Improvement Project: Select Preferred Alternative to Present to Alameda County Transportation Commission for the I-880/Whipple Rd and I-880/Industrial Pkwy Interchange Improvement Project
RECOMMENDATION
That Council reviews this report and selects a preferred project alternative to present to Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) to move forward to the environmental document project phase.
SUMMARY
The City in partnership with the Alameda CTC, the implementing agency, and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) propose to provide interchange improvements at the Whipple Road and Industrial Parkway interchanges along the I-880 corridor. The City of Union City has also participated in all project development meetings to date.
The project proposes improvements at the I-880/Whipple Road / Industrial Parkway Southwest Interchange (Whipple Road Interchange) and the I-880 /Industrial Parkway West (Industrial Parkway Interchange). The combined improvements are referred to as "The Project."
The Draft Environmental Document (DED) analyzed three Build Alternatives for The Project. The alternatives being evaluated are "Build Alternative 1," "Build Alternative 2," "Build Alternative 3," and the "No-Build Alternative." The differences between the Build Alternatives are related to the proposed southbound on-ramp and off-ramp configurations at the Industrial Parkway West interchange. Common to each build alternative are the proposed interchange improvements at the Whipple Road Interchange, for which there is one build alternative and one "Design Variation."
To determine the preferred alternative that will be identified in the Final Environmental Document and Project Report, the project team developed evaluation criteria based on metrics such as cost, right-of-way, operations, c...
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