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Staff Report for a Resolution Approving Plans and Specifications and Calling for Bids for the Fiber Loop Project
Staffreport
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends approval of plans and specifications and a call for bids for the subject project.
BACKGROUND
The City has been informed that the I-880 HOV project is scheduled to commence in Fall 2012. The project will add a 3-mile long High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane to I-880 southbound from Hegenberger Road in Oakland to the Marina Boulevard exit in San Leandro. As part of the project, the I-880 interchanges at Davis Street and Marina Boulevard will be reconstructed to allow for the wider freeway. Unfortunately, the project will disconnect the fiber optic cables at the east end of the overcrossing on Davis Street, thereby eliminating communication to all of our traffic signals and facilities west of I-880.
Analysis
By adding fiber optic cables on Washington Avenue between Springlake Drive and Fargo Avenue, the communications going through Davis Street to Doolittle Drive will be routed through East 14th Street, Hesperian Boulevard, Halcyon Drive, Washington Avenue, Fargo Avenue, Farnsworth Street, Manor Boulevard, Wicks Boulevard, Merced Street, Williams Street, and back to Doolittle Drive. The result will be the establishment of a complete redundant fiber optic ring throughout the city. This will allow us to maintain communication with our traffic signals and facilities that are located west of I-880 during the construction of the I-880 HOV project.
The work will include pulling fiber optic cable on Washington Avenue between Springlake Drive and Fargo Avenue. The 288 strand fiber will be pulled through existing conduit underneath the I-880 freeway. New splice connections will be made at the terminations at all signals and facilities along the loop. All of the transceivers at signals and facilities connected to the fiber optic system will be retrofitted to allow for bi-directional information flo...
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