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City of Santa Ana I First Street Multimodal Corridor <br /> Technical Memorandum <br /> Providing a bus lane provides benefits to vehicular traffic and buses. Vehicles may enter the <br /> bus lane to make a right turn at intersections. <br /> This moves the decelerating vehicles into the bus lane and reduces the potential for rear end <br /> crashes. With buses in a dedicated lane, there would be no queuing of vehicles behind <br /> buses at bus stops. Vehicles maneuvering around stopped buses is also a potential cause of <br /> rear-end and sideswipe crashes that would be reduced with this option. Bus on-time <br /> performance and delay would also improve. Coupled with bus priority, travel time for buses <br /> along the corridor are forecast to improve significantly. This City has discussed with OCTA <br /> options to increase frequency of bus service along the route if dedicated. Additional <br /> discussion and analysis are needed to determine if expanded or more frequent service is <br /> possible. <br /> East Side Design Concepts <br /> From Cabrillo Park Drive to Tustin Avenue, the City will be constructing new medians and <br /> buffered bicycle lanes. This project will also reduce First Street from six lanes to four lanes. <br /> While this will improve the bicycle amenities on this portion of the corridor compared to <br /> existing conditions, feedback during community outreach meetings suggests that bicyclists <br /> would prefer to be at sidewalk level as opposed to street level. Figure 29 provides the cross <br /> section and the pedestrian and bicycle zone illustrations. <br /> Figure 29. East Side Illustrations <br /> I <br /> ti f 40 <br /> T T ` <br /> 1r 20' <br /> lNcprth] V.0pook�- 65 �•n, I5o�rll <br /> 102'First S1 Right-of-way <br /> i PK:�� <br /> Sidewalk with <br /> Separated Bikeway <br /> 50 <br />