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HIGHWAY EFFICIENCY AND FREIGHT INVESTMENTS The County's aging Berkeley,which will improve conditions for all highway system requires modes in both Emeryville and Berkeley. safety, access and gap The I-80 Gilman project will receive funding to closure improvements to relieve a major bottleneck and safety problem at the I- enhance efficiencies on a 80 Gilman interchange.The project includes both a largely built-out system. major reconfiguration of the interchange and grade Funding has been separation of the roadway and the railroad crossing which currently crosses Gilman at-grade impeding allocated to each highway corridor in traffic flow to and from the freeway.Improvements Alameda County for needed improvements. will also be made for pedestrians and bicyclists Specific projects have been identified based crossing this location and accessing recreational on project readiness, local priority and the opportunities west of the freeway,making this a true availability to leverage current investments multimodal improvement. and funds.A number of additional eligible The Ashby Avenue corridor will receive funding to projects have been identified as candidates fully reconstruct the Ashby Avenue Interchange by for corridor improvements,which will be eliminating the substandard eastbound on-ramp in selected for funding based on their Berkeley's Aquatic Park.The interchange will be fully contribution to the overall goals of improving accessible to vehicles traveling to and from Emeryville and Berkeley and east and west on I-80 system reliability, maximizing connectivity, will reduce local traffic congestion in Berkeley and improving the environment and reducing Emeryville and will improve bicycle and pedestrian congestion. Priority implementation of access.The project includes associated corridor specific investments and amounts will be improvements on Ashby Avenue. determined as part of the Capital , r 1,ills ea / •„m Improvement Program developed by the ,so� Alameda CTC every two years. / ,,1 Most of the projects that have been identified for funding are designed to t..-- '” > 4 03 - r improve the efficiency of and access to �� -� --i - III existing investments and to close gaps and - remove bottlenecks. ,,1 . ' t ti A total of 9%of the net revenue is allocated lik to the highway system, including 1%o, or =:- �'� r approximately $77 M, allocated specifically to '\\ �'�goods movement and related projects. , Sit 1111111 el I-8o CORRIDOR INVESTMENTS FROM 0 1 _ Iii THE CONTRA COSTA COUNTY LINE TO \l, �_i r THE BAY BRIDGE ($76 M) : \ _1 I-80 in the northern part of the County is the most _.-__ __— congested stretch of freeway in the Bay Area. - " W y Investments in the interchanges on this route were ��"'" �5-- S selected to relieve bottlenecks,improve safety and Art 0 1' , gi improve conditions for cars,buses,trucks and bicyclists and pedestrians.Key investments will be horJlurtratvopurpro.ONy 1 _Lila:�lQiid il>ite: made at the Ashby and Gilman interchanges in Alameda County Transportation Expenditure Plan I 2-15