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<br />PROPOSAL STANDARD AVENUE PROTECTED BIKE LANES <br />3RD TO WARNER <br />City of Santa Ana <br />School Youth Travel <br />Students crossing the corridor travel to many local schools, including Roosevelt, Walker, and Madison <br />Elementary, Lathrop Intermediate and Villa Fundamental, and Century High School. The project will consider <br />serving north-south bicycle travel as well as student travel crossing Standard Avenue for reduced exposure <br />at intersections. <br />Transit Integration <br />The proposed project will require collaboration with OCTA to develop bus stops that serve the agency needs <br />and integrate well with bicyclist and pedestrian travel patterns. OCTA Fixed Route 55 will require continued <br />bus stops along the buffered bike lane and the separated bikeway. We will utilize lessons learned in Santa <br />Ana from other current and planned floating transit islands in the City. The boarding/alighting area required <br />by OCTA is an 8-feet x 40-feet envelope. While likely not applicable for Standard Avenue, OCTA seeks <br />bigger boarding areas if there are overlapping bus routes, layover areas, or 60-feet long buses utilized on the <br />route. Additional transit considerations include accommodating bus turns in the design at St. Gertrude Place <br />and Chestnut Avenue. We are currently implementing transit islands along the Garden Grove Boulevard <br />protected bikeway in Westminster. <br />The project design includes a road buffet (or road diet) along Standard Avenue, so buses stopped at transit <br />islands will temporarily stop through traffic in the single travel lane. Our team anticipates centerline hardening <br />or median treatments may be needed to manage illegal passing of the bus in the two-way left-turn lane. <br />ITS elements may also be considered to modify signal timing if a bus is stopped and blocking traffic using a <br />detector loop. <br />Parking Supply <br />Parking continues to be a premium community concern in the City of Santa Ana where a high density of <br />people live and work. The design will need to minimize potential parking loss and provide increased parking <br />opportunities where possible. <br />However, the addition of parking may have reduced yield than envisioned in the concept plans due to <br />setback requirements from driveways, alleys, fire hydrants, and other utilities. Lastly, the project will need to <br />evaluate preferential parking supply such as loading zone (one location observed north of Chestnut Avenue), <br />accessible parking, and other time restricted parking. <br />12