Our Accessible Community
We're making our transit, streets, sidewalks and bike paths better and safer for everyone.
Community Partner
"Furthering the General Bikeway Plan is crucial to improving the local bicycle network that connects schools, parks, housing and employment areas with safe bike paths and lanes to make Ventura a truly bicycle-friendly community."
Improved transportation safety
- Repaved 33 miles of city streets including Foothill Road, College Drive, and Market Street neighborhoods
- Repaired 2,183 linear feet of sidewalks and 5,100 linear feet of curbs and gutters
- Installed pavement flashers on Loma Vista Road at county hospital crosswalk
- Placed many "center of the street" pedestrian signs for safer crosswalks
- Added automatic flashers to Ventura River Trail bike/foot crossing at Stanley Avenue
- Installed first "Safe Routes to School" sidewalks, curbs and gutters where none existed near elementary schools to encourage students to safely bike or walk to school
Reduced automobile dependence
- Expanded linear park system by two miles of bike paths at Ventura Community Park
- Added 1.5 miles of new bike lanes to city streets
- Began $.5 million in repairs to Ventura Promenade bike/walk ways, view alcoves, and stairs
Maintained street trees along scenic thoroughfares
- Planted 500 new trees and trimmed 8,000 trees per year
- Ventura named as "Tree City USA"
- Trained the first Ventura Tree Rangers as neighborhood ambassadors to care for street trees
Improved transit options
- Installed 17 bus shelters and 150 new benches throughout the city over the past two years
- Enhanced 12 shelters with public art Streetscape Murals
- Improved ridership of city's coastal route 12 with redesigned "Woody" mini-bus from 1,200 riders per month in January 2006 to 2,500 riders per month in August 2007
The Road Ahead
- Create paid parking plan downtown to fund more public parking structures
- Enact General Bikeway Plan for a more bicycle-friendly city
- Promote automobile alternatives to better our air quality and traffic
- Improve walk, bike and roadways:
- Figueroa St./Hwy. 101 pedestrian underpass
- Olivas Park Dr. extension to better access the auto center
- California St. pedestrian bridge over Hwy. 101
- Relocate Hwy. 101/California St. off-ramp
- Repave 15 miles of city streets
- Repair 1,000 linear feet of disrupted sidewalks, curbs and gutters per year
- Cap 101 Freeway at California Street to link downtown and beach, expand retail from pier to Crowne Plaza, replace parking structure and create multi-modal transit center