The Otis Drive project has not made it onto the California Transportation Commission (CTC) agenda that was published online sometime today.
In better news, City of Alameda staff reached out late in the day and shared that productive conversations are ongoing between Caltrans, the CTC, and local partners.
Thank you to everyone who's followed this project. For anyone just joining now, please hold on any additional emails or letters to the CTC decision-makers. Let's see if/when this makes it to the CTC's January meeting agenda.
And another thank you to the City of Alameda for working diligently with these much larger agencies to improve this project.
If you want to skim long PDFs on this wet evening, you can peruse the agenda posted online for the CTC's December meeting — it's actually a "book" that is 989 pages in length!
04-Ala-61, which seems to be the code for Caltrans District 4 + Alameda County + State Route 61The entire 989 pages are summarized in this table at the end of the agenda:
At this single meeting, the members of the California Transportation Commission will be voting to allocate a grand total of nearly...
Of that, more than half will be allocated to "SHOPP" (State Highway Operation and Protection Program) projects, such as the repaving of State Route 61.
In California, the freeways don't actually come for free.