San Leandro Puts Focus On 'Infrastructure Week'

SAN LEANDRO, CA — "Infrastructure Week," days highlighting critical needs for such improvements as bridges, roadways and safer streets, runs May 16 to 20 in San Leandro.

"The City of San Leandro has changed in its 150-year history from an agricultural place to a post-World War II suburb, to its present urbanizing-suburban city, integrated within the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan area," Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter said.

"Consequently, infrastructure needs and transportation patterns have evolved, as well. With investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we will be able to focus on Vision Zero, an initiative to eliminate roadway collisions,"she added.

The National League of Cities, including San Leandro, said Infrastructure Week is "an opportunity for national and local leaders to elevate infrastructure as a critical issue impacting all Americans," organizers said. "This year, as infrastructure investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are available to communities across the nation, San Leandro highlights the importance of these funds."

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes $1.2 trillion toward America's "crumbling" infrastructure, organizers said.

In San Leandro, funds from the legislation will be directed at building the "Bancroft Avenue and Williams Street Crosstown Multimodal Corridor Project," an impacted area that could benefit from improvements for safety, access and mobility for roadway users along Bancroft Avenue and Williams Street, officials said.

The improvements also will support access to BART, parks and other community destinations, staff said.

Officials said the city is working in an Infrastructure Week partnership with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla.

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