![]() ![]() On the Bay Trail, walkers and bicyclists can follow the shoreline from Emeryville all the way to the Richmond Marina and Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park. 33 reviews of McLaughlin Eastshore State Park 'Part of the 8.5 mile shoreline Park that includes Berkeley up to Richmond, Emeryvilles East Shore Park is probably one of the prettiest if not one of the better kept secrets in the East Bay. Local trails connect these creek mouths to the restored Berkeley Meadow and Shorebird Park, Cesar Chavez Park, and Berkeley Marina. Tide flats here are another popular fall-to-spring birding area. Schoolhouse Creek exits its pipe just north of the Virginia Street Extension, which is now a park trail. ![]() ![]() A new Bay Trail extension offers an excellent view of the mud flats at the creek mouth, which are often dense with migrant and wintering shorebirds between fall and spring. The park extends from the City of Richmond in the north to Emeryville and Oakland in the south, ending near the east anchorage of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Strawberry Creek reaches the Bay via a large pipe on the south side of University Avenue, a short distance west of I-80. The park includes tidelands and upland property along 8.5 miles of shoreline of the San Francisco Bay. The mouths of Strawberry and Schoolhouse creeks are both located in this park, which offers a network of pedestrian and bicycle trails. Together with increasing the ferry service from San Francisco, this policy will ensure that parking space does not need to be significantly increased at the Marina or Aquatic Park due to the abundance of alternative transportation options for new visitors.McLaughlin Eastshore State Park extends 8.5 miles along the East Bay shoreline from the Bay Bridge to Richmond. The complete streets projects would drastically increase the bicycle and pedestrian accessibility to the waterfront for local residents, while the University Avenue transit project would provide a significantly higher capacity than current AC Transit 51B service, adequate to handle both local and out-of-town crowds for the large events through sustained, reliable connections from Downtown Berkeley, the Downtown Berkeley BART Station, and the Berkeley Amtrak Station. We believe that expanding transportation options to these areas will achieve the goal of increasing the regular utilization of these recreational spaces by residents of Berkeley, and play a key role in increasing the capacity of the Berkeley Marina to host large-scale events. We also propose the study of a major transit project that could take place along the University Avenue Corridor, a designated Transit Priority Area by MTC, which would connect the key transportation hubs of Downtown Berkeley and Berkeley Amtrak Station to the Berkeley Marina and its ferry service to San Francisco. As such, we propose a more targeted form of transit development by identifying Cedar Street, Virginia Street, University Avenue, Channing Way, and Dwight Way and five priority corridors for walking and cycling infrastructural improvements in the “complete streets” typology. While the current OS-10 policy from the previous general plan calls for developing “a citywide pedestrian and bicycle network that links recreational facilities” and “increasing shuttle and weekend transit services” to them, these visions yet to widely materialize today. The waterfront district, comprising both the Aquatic Park and the Berkeley Marina, is currently not very accessible by both the general Berkeley population and outside visitors, especially for those who do not own a car. ![]()
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