Designing El Camino Real as a Complete Street (the Complete Streets Project) is part of the Grand Boulevard’s “Removing Barriers to Sustainable Communities Project” funded by a DOT TIGER II Planning grant and local support. The Complete Streets project will facilitate the design of demonstration projects on El Camino Real to integrate the roadway with sustainable development, encourage pedestrian and transit activity, and promote investor confidence.

SamTrans, C/CAG, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Caltrans are working together on four Complete Streets Case Studies.  The Complete Streets Project is focused on San Mateo communities, with VTA leading a similar effort in Santa Clara County through its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) preliminary engineering work on El Camino Real.  The Complete Streets Project team selected four case studies on El Camino Real based on applications and site visits with City staff.  The goal is to create preliminary engineering streetscape designs and to obtain approved Design Exception Fact Sheets from Caltrans for the four case studies.  The four selected case study areas are as follows:

• Daly City (Parkview Avenue to School Street)
• South San Francisco (McLellan Drive to Westborough Boulevard)
• San Bruno (San Bruno Avenue to Taylor Avenue)
• San Carlos (Arroyo Avenue to Brittan Avenue)