In October 2025, a Livermore City Council staff report expected construction to start in summer 2026 on a bicycle boulevard through the neighborhoods north of East Avenue. A City update the following spring had already moved that to "Summer/Fall 2026." Summer is over now, and Charlotte Way still has no new markings. The City's project page now projects a construction start in summer 2027.
The route past Big Trees Park and the streets around Lucille Street now runs on the schedule of a statewide grant program, and that program schedules its projects starting in the fiscal year that begins in July 2027. The votes that decide the grant come this fall and winter, at the California Transportation Commission and at the Bay Area's regional transportation agency.
What the plans actually put on your block
The City's consultant memo from March 2025 lays out three bike-boulevard segments totaling about 2.6 miles. All of them sit inside the area bounded by the ACE rail corridor on the north, South Vasco Road on the east, East Avenue on the south and Fourth Street on the west. Two of them run along the streets around Big Trees Park at 5470 Kathy Way.
- BB26 links Jackson Avenue Elementary School to the Arroyo Seco Trail by way of Lee Ann Circle, Loyola Way, Jeannie Way, Audry Street, North Mines Road and Charlotte Way. The Charlotte Way stretch runs right beside Big Trees Park, and it's the segment closest to Lucille Street.
- BB37 runs through the Coventry neighborhood from Arlene Way to South Vasco Road along Cheryl Drive and Emily Way. Its sign list includes Big Trees Park, Arroyo Seco Elementary School, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Livermore wineries.
- BB24 stays farther west. It connects Livermore High School to Robert Livermore Park, the Aquatic Center and the Community Center via School Street, Pestana Way, Jensen Street, Stanford Way, Lincoln Avenue and Pomona Way.
Most of these are two-lane streets with no striping except at intersections. North Mines Road is the exception. There the route has to jog across two lanes of traffic and a left-turn lane in each direction, at signals on both Audry Street and Charlotte Way. That crossing is why BB26 gets the most hardware of the three routes. The plan calls for signal and striping changes at both North Mines intersections so a rider in the North Mines bike lanes can make a two-stage left turn instead of merging across traffic. On Charlotte Way the route picks up the existing bike lanes. That street already has Class II lanes and parking on both sides.
A light touch, by design
On the quieter blocks, all three routes get the same short list of changes: painted curb extensions, ladder-style crosswalks, sharrows and bike-boulevard markers, route signs and destination wayfinding. Bike boxes and extra intersection striping show up only on BB26.
The engineers considered heavier tools and left them out. Their reason says a lot about these streets as they are today. The consultant memo explains why speed lumps didn't make the cut:
"due to existing traffic volumes and speed data recorded in the neighborhoods where these bike boulevards are proposed, it was determined that speed lumps were not appropriate at this time."
Plastic delineators were dropped for the same reason, with the memo pointing to existing traffic volumes and "majority residential traffic only." The measured traffic was low enough that paint and signs were judged sufficient. So when work does begin, it should look more like a restriping crew than a road rebuild.
Why the date moved a year
Two things changed between the 2025 schedule and today's. First, the design is at 65 percent, and the City says its consultant is revising it based on feedback from the Traffic Engineering Ad Hoc Committee. Design completion is now expected by January 2027.
Second, the funding source changed. On June 8, 2026, staff asked the City Council to authorize an application to the state's Active Transportation Program, Cycle 8, for the full East Avenue Corridor project. Cycle 8 is expected to total $574 million statewide, and its projects will be programmed over four state fiscal years, from FY 2027-28 through FY 2030-31. The same staff report says construction is "tentatively scheduled to begin in Fiscal Year 2027-28," and that the scope and schedule meet Cycle 8's requirements. The state's fiscal year 2027-28 begins in July 2027, so the City's summer 2027 construction start falls in the first year of the Cycle 8 programming window.
The application went in on time. The California Transportation Commission's Cycle 8 receipt log, dated June 23, 2026, lists "East Avenue Corridor ATP Implementation CIP (TB202222)" from the City of Livermore as a small-infrastructure application, with an ATP request of $3.122 million toward a total project cost of $3.494 million. The City is also requesting $372,723 in Transportation Development Act Article 3 funds, and says any grant it receives may replace or supplement the local funding in the project budget.
The calendar to watch
Cycle 8 is decided in stages, and the first was scheduled for Monday, November 2. These dates come from the CTC's adopted Cycle 8 guidelines and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Resolution 4744:
- November 2, 2026: CTC staff recommendations for the statewide and small urban and rural components were scheduled for this date.
- December 3–4, 2026: The CTC is scheduled to adopt those components.
- February 3, 2027: MTC's staff recommendation for the Bay Area regional component.
- February 10 and February 26, 2027: Review by MTC's committee, then adoption by the full Commission.
- March 18, 2027: CTC approval of the regional program. MTC labels its schedule "Subject to Change."
The CTC posts its Cycle 8 materials on its Active Transportation Program page, so that's where recommendations and award lists will appear. The City's project page also lists Project Manager Bob Vinn as its contact.
The East Avenue half of the same grant
The same application covers the crossings you use to get out of the neighborhood. In 2023, the Tactical East Avenue demonstration put painted curb extensions and medians, high-visibility crosswalks and traffic bollards at Maple Street, 7th Street, Dolores Street, Jensen Street, Estates Street and Hillcrest Avenue. City staff wrote that the goal of slowing traffic through those intersections "has been met." The permanent version keeps those speed reductions for passenger cars. It also gives trucks, trailers, buses and fire trucks more room to turn, uses more durable materials, separates the walking and driving areas more clearly, and brings curb ramps up to current ADA standards.
Three intersections near the Robert Livermore Community Center at 4444 East Avenue are slated for similar treatments: Madison Avenue, Loyola Way and Almond Avenue. Almond also gets a painted crosswalk with a rectangular rapid flashing beacon. One part of the corridor work is already done: the City completed lighting improvements under a separate street lighting project.
Where the signs will point, and how to ride it now
None of the destinations on the future wayfinding signs is waiting on the grant. Robert Livermore Park, at 491 Loyola Way, is a 29.9-acre community park with fields, tennis and volleyball courts, a walking trail and picnic areas, and both BB24 and BB26 will sign toward it. Brookmeadow Park is on BB26's list too.
At the east end of Charlotte Way is the Arroyo Seco Trail. The Livermore Area Recreation and Park District's draft master plan, released in August 2026, describes it as a 4.24-mile north-south corridor, a multi-use paved trail with equestrian components. It connects to the Arroyo Las Positas Trail, the Patterson Pass Trail and the South Livermore Valley Trail, and parts of its middle segment have been finished alongside new development since 2016. The route the City has drawn already works as a ride today. Go from Big Trees Park along Charlotte Way to the trail, and you've covered the same stretch the future signs will point to.
The streets north of East Avenue are among our favorite parts of Livermore, and we'll be watching the December and February decisions along with you. If you're thinking about what changes like these could mean for your own home in Wagner Farms, Armario Homes is glad to walk through it with you over a Free Consultation.
