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The City of Mountain View has a project to enhance safety, eliminate fatal or severe injury crashes, and increase the number of sustainable trips on California Street between Showers Drive and Shoreline Boulevard. As part of the 2024 repaving project, the City plans to install new crosswalks and sidewalk corners, and redo the lane striping on California Street. This neighborhood will first experience a Pilot Project, which will be evaluated before it becomes permanent. The California Street Pilot Project will implement:

• a four-lane-to-three-lane road diet (one vehicle travel lane in each direction)
• a two-way left-turn center lane (from Showers to Mariposa)
• protected intersections (where bikes are separated from vehicles)
• temporary bulb-outs (extra protected space at the corners)
• high-visibility midblock crossings with enhanced lighting
• parking-protected bikeways with a buffered section separating the parked cars from the bikewa
• Car parking spaces will be shifted 12 feet away from the curb

The bikeway buffer area will contain different elements in each section as we test out vertical delineators (flex posts), armadillos (small oval-shaped bumps), and planter boxes to see what works best, what is most cost-effective, and what the community prefers.

California Street is a key east-west corridor connecting downtown Mountain View to the San Antonio Shopping Center with Rengstorff Park and Community Center, the Mountain View Senior Center, and the Teen Center. California Street has a variety of housing types, including multi-family dwellings and rent stabilized units. As a calmer alternative to El Camino Real, it is in a good location for bicycle and pedestrian trips. The Mountain View Community Shuttle and VTA bus routes utilize California Street. California Street is on the High Injury Network, and on the list of the top 8 streets the City plans to improve for safety.

Project Area

Proposed Lane Configuration Cross Sections

Tentative Construction Schedule

Construction is anticipated in late summer 2024.

More Information

See the California Street Plan Line Study and Memo from the March 2023 BPAC meeting.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the project manager Hoa Nguyen at hoa.nguyen@mountainview.gov or at 650-903-6311.