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PROPOSAL STANDARD AVENUE PROTECTED BIKE LANES 3RD TO WARNER City of Santa Ana F1 IN School Youth Travel Students crossing the corridor travel to many local schools, including Roosevelt, Walker, and Madison Elementary, Lathrop Intermediate and Villa Fundamental, and Century High School. The project will consider serving north -south bicycle travel as well as student travel crossing Standard Avenue for reduced exposure at intersections. Transit Integration The proposed project will require collaboration with OCTA to develop bus stops that serve the agency needs and integrate well with bicyclist and pedestrian travel patterns. OCTA Fixed Route 55 will require continued bus stops along the buffered bike lane and the separated bikeway. We will utilize lessons learned in Santa Ana from other current and planned floating transit islands in the City. The boarding/alighting area required by OCTA is an 8-feet x 40-feet envelope. While likely not applicable for Standard Avenue, OCTA seeks bigger boarding areas if there are overlapping bus routes, layover areas, or 60-feet long buses utilized on the route. Additional transit considerations include accommodating bus turns in the design at St. Gertrude Place and Chestnut Avenue. We are currently implementing transit islands along the Garden Grove Boulevard protected bikeway in Westminster. The project design includes a road buffet (or road diet) along Standard Avenue, so buses stopped at transit islands will temporarily stop through traffic in the single travel lane. Our team anticipates centerline hardening or median treatments may be needed to manage illegal passing of the bus in the two-way left -turn lane. ITS elements may also be considered to modify signal timing if a bus is stopped and blocking traffic using a detector loop. Parking Supply Parking continues to be a premium community concern in the City of Santa Ana where a high density of people live and work. The design will need to minimize potential parking loss and provide increased parking opportunities where possible. However, the addition of parking may have reduced yield than envisioned in the concept plans due to setback requirements from driveways, alleys, fire hydrants, and other utilities. Lastly, the project will need to evaluate preferential parking supply such as loading zone (one location observed north of Chestnut Avenue), accessible parking, and other time restricted parking.