Issue: Transportation

What We Heard
Redwood City Residents indicated an interest in a number of transportation priorities including:

Improving the jobs/housing imbalance. Reduce in-commuter traffic

• Workers traveling to their jobs in Redwood City place critical pressure on our transportation infrastructure.
• Due to the lack of available housing opportunities, more than 42,000 workers commute to their jobs in Redwood City every day.
• More than 80 percent of Redwood City jobs are held by workers who commute from other cities and increase congestion on our local transportation system.
• The best way to address traffic congestion is through good land use decisions and smart growth.

Creating a new water transit system

• Studies are underway to provide water transit service to a newly constructed ferry terminal at the end of Seaport Boulevard.
• Ferry service will attract East Bay and San Francisco commuters reducing traffic congestion from in-commuters.

Improving access to areas east of US Highway 101

• With water transit service and a new ferry terminal likely coming to Redwood City, residents will need increased access to Seaport Boulevard in the area east of 101.
• Without improvements, the Woodside Road / Seaport Boulevard / US Highway 101 interchange cannot accommodate traffic from existing industrial users along with increased traffic from ferry terminal passengers and job growth at the Pacific Shores Center.

Reducing congestion on US Highway 101

• New auxiliary lanes are funded and will improve congestion on US Highway 101.
• However, the bottleneck between Marsh and Woodside roads will still be a problem due to Dumbarton bridge traffic.
• A parallel route to the Dumbarton Bridge east of US Highway 101 was studied and would significantly improve congestion on US Highway 101.

Developing new Public Transit Connections to Downtown

• Redwood City needs new, improved ways to connect existing residents and new developments to downtown.
• Expanded local shuttle service.
• Existing railroad tracks along Seaport Boulevard potentially provide a good opportunity for a public transit connection from Caltrain's Sequoia Station to the ferry terminal and other uses east of US Highway 101.

Expanding Bike and Pedestrian Access

• New bicycle and walking trails throughout Redwood City
• Fill the gap in the Bay Trail between Seaport Boulevard and Bayfront Park

Creating New, Improved Passenger Rail Service

• New rail service is planned from Redwood City to the East Bay along the Dumbarton Bridge corridor.
• Caltrain is working toward electrification, which will result in more efficient, cleaner, faster Caltrain service along the Peninsula.

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