City Celebrates Charleston/Arastradero Corridor Completion

City Celebrates Charleston/Arastradero Corridor Completion

Published on May 11, 2025

Charleston-Arastradero Corridor Project Completion Celebrated

The City and community leaders celebrated the completion of the Charleston/Arastradero Corridor project on Saturday, May 10, 2025 during a 1-mile community ride recognizing the hard work by so many who helped advance the $20.7 million multi-year infrastructure project. Substantially completed in July of 2024, the effort has transformed the roadway with new crosswalks, wider sidewalks, upgraded traffic signals, public art, and improved bike lanes.

Almost 7% of adult Palo Alto residents commute to work by bike, and almost 40% of the students in our school district, or over 3,500 students, choose to bike to school daily. The Charleston/Arastradero Corridor Plan helps connect residents where they need to go safely. The corridor is 2.3 miles long and connects eleven K-12 schools, multiple parks, shopping centers, community centers, and a library. This community-driven project was a result of residents who asked for safer streets, calmer traffic, and a more beautiful corridor.

The improvements allow residents and visitors to move more efficiently and safely along the corridor and was completed with a focus on environmental sustainability. With funding from the California Department of Resources Recycling, the corridor was repaved with asphalt and ground tire rubber, recycling more than 10,000 tires. The project added over 80 new trees, shrubs, and bioretention plants, which not only help to make this a safer corridor, but a more climate-resilient one too.

This community achievement is something for everyone to celebrate. None of this could have happened without the tireless efforts of the Palo Alto community, City of Palo Alto staff, construction teams and residents, parents, students, and community leaders engaged throughout the entire process.

The Charleston/Arastradero Project is one of the nine original Infrastructure Plan projects adopted by the Council in June 2014, with most of the funding coming from an increase in the Transient Occupancy Tax (hotel tax) from 12 to 14 percent that was approved by more than 76 percent of Palo Alto voters in November 2014.

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