Item 16 - McFadden Avenue Protected Bike Lane and Bicycle Boulevard: Harbor to Grand

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MCFADDEN AVENUE PROTECTED BIKE LANE AND - BICYCLE BOULEVARD PROJECT CITY OF SANTA ANA fflo-', Concurrent Project Coordination We acknowledge that the City of Santa Ana is vigorously investing in this area of the City with several different projects currently going through different phases of design. Specifically, we note that there will be two concurrent projects in development of plans that may potentially be combined with this project's bid documents to form a single bid package for construction. We commend the City on taking this approach to minimize impacts to the traveling public and efficiently using taxpayer dollars to obtain an "economy of scale" by putting more work on the street at once. We find that a good majority of our projects involve collaboration with other design firms, developers, or local agency projects. We enjoy this collaborative effort and find that our projects end up better developed and more complete in the long run making the teamwork well worth the effort. As stated in the RFP, two projects on McFadden Avenue have overlapping work limits with potential for bid documents to be combined into a single bid package as follows: 1) The Standard Bike Project with plans to install a future protected bike boulevard on Standard Avenue from Warner Avenue to Third/31d Street 2) The McFadden Rehabilitation Project with plans to install minor roadway/grading, parking divider, median, ADA ramps, and bulb -outs on McFadden Avenue from Fairview Avenue to Raitt Street In developing our concept exhibits for this proposal we highlighted the work to be done by others in these areas along with another project we came across that will install protected bike lanes along Bristol Street from Edinger Avenue to First/1s' Street. At this intersection the importance of collaboration between projects to achieve bikeway network connectivity is clearly illustrated. With the Bristol Street Bike Project providing protected bike lanes in the North -South direction it will be incumbent upon the designers of the McFadden Avenue Project to provide East-West connectivity along this vital, multi -use corridor. Bike boxes at the intersection may be one option to allow cyclists to turn left at these traffic signals. Through our review of the draft plans developed for the Bristol Street Bike Project it appears that this intersection will be installing video detection as part of that project, which alleviates that responsibility from the McFadden Bike Project. MCFADDEN AVE QUO— BRISTOL ST I [IIIYIIII�1111 ,Mab�.E,� Rzs9ti<, 4 rT R§DOKKEN Page 1 to ENGINEERING