REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Action on Award of Contract for the Mission College Boulevard Bike Lane Project and Related Budget Amendments
Report
BACKGROUND
On November 21, 2017, the City Council approved and authorized the City Manager to execute the Congestion Management Program Transportation Fund for Clean Air Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority for a grant of $109,500 to the City to complete the design and construction of the Mission College Bike Lane Project. Combined with a local match of $265,500 in funding from the City's Traffic Mitigation Program Fund and with total funding equaling $375,000, the Mission College Boulevard Bike Lane Project ("Project") proposes to add a Class II bicycle lane facility further explained below along Mission College Boulevard from Great America Parkway to the Santa Clara/Sunnyvale City Limit near Wildwood Avenue. The Project will close the Class II bicycle facilities gap between the existing Class II bicycle lanes on Mission College Boulevard east of Great America Parkway and the existing Class II bicycle lanes on Wildwood Avenue in Sunnyvale, as seen in the Project Location Map included as Attachment 1.
The Project consists of applying approximately 257,876 square feet (3.2 lane-miles) of pavement slurry seal, removing and replacing approximately 13,500 square feet of failed pavement areas, removing and replacing existing thermoplastic traffic striping and pavement markings, and installing 4,935 feet (or 0.93 miles) of new bicycle lanes, green painted bicycle lanes in conflict areas (areas where weaving of vehicles and bicycles occur), and corresponding bicycle lane signage. It will also include traffic signal bicycle detection loops at the intersections of Mission College Boulevard at Mission College Entrance and Great America Parkway.
The proposed bicycle lanes will complete an east-west corridor between Lawrence Expressway and San Tomas/Montague Expressway north of Highway 101 for b...
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