Location North K St and Needles Hwy City or County Responsible for Project Needles Author Marc Richards Organization City of Needles Address 817 Third St. Needles, Ca. 92363 Phone 760-220-9027 Project Description This bridge crosses the Colorado River from California to Arizona and maintenance is shared with Arizona. The bridge needs to be raised to original specs and also needs resurfacing.
Location Chilco Street near Constitution Drive City or County Responsible for Project City of Menlo Park Category Complete Streets Projects Author Nicole Nagaya Organization City of Menlo Park Address 701 Laurel St Phone 6503306770 Project Description The Chilco Street Streetscape project is an example of a successful partnership between private development and government to complete major street improvements. In early 2015, Facebook submitted an application for the proposed redevelopment of a site located at 301-309 Constitution Drive, which included construction of 2 new office buildings of over 900,000 square feet, a 200-room hotel, and publicly-accessible open space and a new pedestrian bridge over Bayfront Expressway. Chilco Street is a two-lane roadway connecting Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood, across the inactive Dumbarton Railroad right-of-way, and Bayfront Expressway. Chilco Street had a posted speed of 40 miles per hour and standard bicycle lanes, but no sidewalks or walking facilities. Being a link […]
Location N. Santa Monica Blvd, between Wilshire Boulevard and Doheny Drive City or County Responsible for Project City of Beverly Hills Category Complete Streets Projects Author Michelle Tse Organization City of Beverly Hills, Public Works Department Address 345 Foothill Road Phone 310-288-2821 Project Description As one of the main thoroughfares through the City of Beverly Hills, N. Santa Monica Blvd. has helped define Beverly Hills since the 1930’s and remains the ‘Mother Road’ to Beverly Hills. This famous road had deteriorated, sidewalks cracked, sections of curb/gutter and drainage inlets damaged and/or missing from decades of use (50,000+ vehicles daily) requiring a full reconstruction from subbase to surface for 1.5 miles of roadway extending from Wilshire Blvd. to Doheny Drive. The project represents a Complete Street project that includes aesthetically pleasing native landscapes, environmentally efficient LED street lights, fiber optic conduit, new curbs, gutters, and sidewalks with new ADA approved access […]
Location Miller Avenue from Sunnyside to Almonte City or County Responsible for Project City of Mill Valley Category Complete Streets Projects Author Andrew Poster Organization City of Mill Valley Address 26 Corte Madera Avenue Phone (415) 384-4800 Project Description Miller Avenue functions as a central corridor serving the circulation, commerce, recreation, and experiential needs of Mill Valley. The Miller Avenue Streetscape Plan balanced a need to improve critical infrastructure and safety features while preserving the unique character of Mill Valley. The 2-mile thoroughfare is filled with unique character and five “rooms” that define the history of the street. The development of the Plan involved an extensive community-based planning process that incorporated multi-modal features along the corridor and highlighted historical conditions, surveyed community sacred places, identified minimal change options, evaluated existing trees and introduced water quality features to improve the quality of storm water released to the Corte Madera Creek Watershed. […]
Location Madonna & Los Osos Valley Road City or County Responsible for Project City of San Luis Obispo Category Roads: Efficient and Sustainable Road Maintenance, Construction and Reconstruction Projects. Author Brian Nelson Organization City of San Luis Obispo Address 919 Palm Street Phone 805-781-7113 Project Description The City of San Luis Obispo recently completed the largest roadway maintenance and rehabilitation project in its history on two heavily utilized arterial streets: Madonna and Los Osos Valley Roads. The roads service approximately 25,000 vehicles daily and are crucial to mobility connections for residents and thousands of commuters. This project enhanced the City’s multimodal transportation improvement goals and utilized a variety of techniques to save taxpayer money and reduce environmental impacts. Part of the City’s comprehensive Pavement Maintenance Plan (PMP), the $2.6m project covered an area of 1.17m SQFT, and was designed to emphasize maintenance of arterial streets. One goal of this plan […]
Location Coleman Avenue to West Julian Street City or County Responsible for Project City of San Jose Category Complete Streets Projects Author Lam Cruz Organization Department of Transportation Address 200 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Phone 408-794-1962 Project Description The Autumn Parkway Project is a vital transportation investment which supports the City of San Jose’s long term economic success strategy. The City has identified the development of the Diridon Station Area as an important area of job growth and the Autumn Street Parkway provides a new connection to this area. The Diridon Station Area currently includes the SAP Center as well as transit services such as Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail, VTA bus service, Caltrain, Capitol Corridor, ACE rail, and AMTRAK. In the near future Diridon Station will expand as a major Bay Area transit hub with new transit service including BART and California High-Speed Rail […]
Location Ocala Avenue City or County Responsible for Project City of San Jose Category Safety or Intelligent Transportation System Projects Author Lam Cruz Organization Department of Transportation Address 200 East Santa Clara Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Phone 408-794-1962 Project Description The Ocala Avenue Improvements Project implements a variety of traffic safety, roadway configuration and infrastructure improvements along Ocala Avenue between Daytona Drive and Capitol Expressway. Ocala Avenue is a key corridor within the East San Jose area that serves a large residential neighborhood, Meyer Elementary School, Overfelt High School, Hank Lopez Community Center, and nearby parks. The project improves the connectivity for all users by providing a safer walking and biking corridor to and from key destinations, including Valley Transportation Authority’s (VTA) transit system. Previous roadway conditions consisted of a very wide street with one lane in each direction and a median striped turning lane, standard Class II bike […]
Location Various locations throughout the City of Elk Grove (see supporting documentation) City or County Responsible for Project City of Elk Grove Category Roads: Efficient and Sustainable Road Maintenance, Construction and Reconstruction Projects. Author Jeff Werner Organization City of Elk Grove, Department of Public Works Address 8401 Laguna Palms Way, Elk Grove, CA 95758 Phone 916-478-3602 Project Description The City of Elk Grove undertakes a roadway rehabilitation and resurfacing project annually, to extend the lifespan of streets, bike paths, repair sidewalks, concrete curb ramps and other hardscape features, and improve traffic calming features. Over the past three years, the City hired Psomas as construction manager, to assess streets programmed for rehabilitation or resurfacing, assist with alterations to project plans and specifications, and manage the project during construction. The assessment process begins each winter with construction occurring during spring through early fall. This preventative maintenance approach saves the City money by […]
Location City of Sunnyvale – Citywide City or County Responsible for Project City of Sunnyvale Category Safety or Intelligent Transportation System Projects Author Shahid Abbas Organization City of Sunnyvale Address Department of Public Works – 456 West Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3707 Phone 408-730-7330 Project Description The purpose of this Project was to replace the City’s existing outdated and proprietary client/server central traffic management system with a modern web-based Advanced Adaptive Traffic Management System (AATMS) Central System Software that uses state of the art web-based technology on the server and thin clients which use leading browsers with no additional client software needed on the client workstations. In 2015, the City of Sunnyvale implemented a pilot project by installing AATMS system controllers and software at one of its busiest roadway segments Mathilda Avenue and State Route 237 interchange (a.k.a. The Monster). The pilot project showed great success in managing traffic safely […]
Location Citywide City or County Responsible for Project City of Rancho Cordova Category Safety or Intelligent Transportation System Projects Author Albert Stricker Organization City of Rancho Cordova Address 2729 Prospect Park Drive, Rancho Cordova, 95670 Phone 916-851-8713 Project Description The City of Rancho Cordova (City) is pleased to submit our Citywide Intelligent Transportation System project to the League of California Cities for consideration for an Outstanding Local Streets and Roads Project Award. The City invested $5.5 million to construct an intelligent transportation system (ITS) that fully connected the City network, paves the way for a future with autonomous vehicles, increases safety, and transcends jurisdictional boundaries by providing integration with neighboring Sacramento County (a first of its kind in the region). In 2010, the City of Rancho Cordova prepared an Intelligent Transportation Systems Master Plan that led to two major grants from Caltrans and SACOG for a combined total of $4 […]
