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Staff Report for a Resolution Accepting the Work for the BART-Downtown Pedestrian Interface, Project No. 11-150-38-331, Federal Aid Project No. CML-5041(036)
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the City Council accept the work and authorize the City Manager to file the Notice of Completion, release the maintenance bonds for the subject project upon successful completion of the one-year maintenance period.
BACKGROUND
This project installed pedestrian-friendly improvements in front of the San Leandro BART Station along San Leandro Boulevard (SLB) between Davis Street and Williams Street. These improvements are consistent with the goals presented in the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy's "Development and Implementation Guidelines" for improving BART Station Access, and include the following features:
* Five vehicle travel lanes on SLB (a reduction from seven existing lanes) with new on-street parking and a bike lane in each direction
* Pedestrian bulb-outs at intersection corners
* Ornamental streetlights with supplementary pedestrian level lighting
* New street trees and expanded landscaping areas in the center street median and in planters adjacent to the pedestrian sidewalk
* A new traffic signal at the intersection of Parrott Street and SLB and accessibility upgrades to the intersections of SLB and Davis Street, SLB and West Juana Avenue, and at the BART station entrance
* Asphalt concrete pavement re-surfacing and re-striping crosswalks with decorative patterns
* New pedestrian curb ramps and high-visibility crosswalk striping on East 14th Street in the Downtown core area between Davis Street and West Juana Avenue
Analysis
Construction is now complete and was performed in compliance with the contract documents.
Project acceptance was protracted pending repair of punch-list corrective items, primarily graffiti removal on completed sidewalk panels. These repairs are now complete and th...
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