Welcome to the virtual learning and feedback tour for the City of Hayward Safe Streets Downtown project!

The City of Hayward heard from you and is advancing two long-term options for the future of Downtown Hayward, and they need your help deciding which direction to take.

These are not final designs; they are ideas meant to spark discussion and help us understand what the community values most. The team will use your input to shape a preferred alternative that will be shared with City Council as the next step toward grant funding and future design work.

How to Participate

This survey is organized as a short self-guided tour. Steps 1–4 are the most important—please complete those first. If you have extra time, feel free to explore the later steps for additional context.

Step 1: Review project goals
Step 2: Review Long Term Option 1 - Note: This is option 1 of 2 long term visions being explored
Step 3: Review Long Term Option 2 - Note: This is option 2 of 2 long term visions being explored
Step 4: Share your thoughts on the contents in Steps 1–3

If you have more time:
Step 5: Review alternatives for B Street and provide your feedback on the proposed designs.
Step 6: Review alternatives for C Street and provide your feedback on the proposed designs.

Keep these goals in mind as you move through each of the steps.

The primary project goal is to:

Create Safer Streets

Eliminate severe injury and fatal collisions on the Loop and in Downtown Hayward

In addition, the project has three other important goals:

The City has developed two long-term options for the future of Downtown Hayward.

The materials below present Option 1 of the long-term vision. In this section, you’ll find:

• What this design could look like – two illustrative views of key streets
• How people would move through the street – an overview of circulation and street layout of key intersections
• Choices and trade-offs – what this option prioritizes and what it may give up
• How this option connects to Mission Blvd and Foothill Blvd – how it fits into the broader street network

Please review these details carefully, and be sure to explore Option 2 (Step 2) before moving to Step 4 to provide your input.

This section illustrates how people would move through Downtown streets, highlighting proposed circulation patterns and the street layout of A Street, Mission Blvd, and Foothill Blvd by illustrating how vehicles, people walking, and people bicycling navigate the corridor.

What This Design Could Look Like

Under Option 1, people and traffic would move through downtown in different ways. This section summarizes how movement occurs today and the potential changes:

Today

• The loop today experiences modest levels of delay, which encourages its use for through travel and high speeds

Option 1

• Most paths through downtown require vehicles to make multiple turns, increasing overall congestion

• Even if most through traffic (about 20%) choose a different route, signalized intersections in the loop show significant peak period congestion

• Building a grid creates new connections enables through vehicle trips to use more roads in downtown to make connections, including 2nd St and E St and Mission Blvd north of downtown.

• More rerouted traffic is expected to use local roads than the freeway system, compared to Option 3

New roadway connecting Main St to Jackson St

The materials below present Option 2 of the long-term vision. In this section, you’ll find:

• What this design could look like – two illustrative views of key streets
• How people would move through the street – an overview of circulation and street layout of A Street, Mission Blvd, and Foothill Blvd.
• Choices and trade-offs – what this option prioritizes and what it may give up
• How this option connects to Mission Blvd and Foothill Blvd – how it fits into the broader street network

Please review these details carefully, and be sure to explore Option 1 (Step 2) before moving to Step 4 to provide your input.

This section illustrates how people would move through Downtown streets, highlighting proposed circulation patterns and the street layout of A Street, Mission Blvd, and Foothill Blvd by illustrating how vehicles, people walking, and people bicycling navigate the corridor.

What This Design Could Look Like

Under Option 2, people and traffic would move through downtown in different ways. This section summarizes how movement occurs today and the potential changes:

Today

• The loop today experiences modest levels of delay, which encourages its use for through travel and high speeds

Option 2

• Prioritizing though travel on Foothill Blvd, creates an opportunity for Mission Blvd and cross streets to be more oriented towards local travel
• Congestion increases in the loop Traffic signals downtown operate similar to today with a modest reduction in through traffic volumes (10% reduction).
• Reduction in capacity sees some volume reduction on the loop and on connecting streets (Mission/Jackson/Foothill).
• About half of rerouted traffic is expected to use the freeway system (I-880 and I-238) with the other half using other local streets (generally Grand Ave or 2^nd St) to find alternate routes. Changes to the loop will likely require mitigations on these other roads

Idea A: D St split into two "T" intersections at Foothill Blvd

Idea B: D St continues straight through downtown

Now that you've reviewed Steps 1-3 and both long-term vision options, please share your thoughts on these options.

For this corridor, the City is presenting three design options, each offering a different way to experience B Street. We invite you to review all three and share which option you prefer.

Below, you’ll find an overview of three proposed design configurations.

We welcome your feedback on the proposed designs at the bottom of the page.

C Street is an important east–west connection in Downtown Hayward, providing access to key destinations including the Hayward Public Library, the BART Station, and Municipal Parking Lot #3.

For this corridor, we are presenting one proposed design option. Before moving forward, we want to ensure the design reflects community needs and that we haven’t overlooked any opportunities.

Below, you’ll find:

• An overview of the planned circulation for C Street, and
• The proposed street configuration for two distinct segments of the corridor.

We welcome your input and feedback on the proposed design at the bottom of the page.

The graphics below illustrate existing conditions of C Street between Watkins Street & Foothill Blvd, and proposed conditions that includes repurposing one through travel lane into a turn lane.

The graphics below illustrate existing conditions of C Street between Mission Blvd & Foothill Blvd, and proposed conditions with a Two-Way Class IV Separated Bikeway, in alignment with the Bicycle & Pedestrian Master Plan.