To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Jacques R. LaRochelle, Public Works Director
Prepared By: John Ferons, Senior Civil Engineer
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Linda Vista Avenue Bridge Over Napa Creek Project Update
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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Receive update from staff regarding Linda Vista Avenue Bridge Over Napa Creek (BR14PW02) and request direction from City Council on how to proceed.
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DISCUSSION:
City Council last heard a project update on Linda Vista Avenue Bridge Over Napa Creek at the regularly scheduled council meeting December 2, 2014. See Attachment 1 for a project location map. At that meeting, Council was presented three road/bridge alignment options developed from engineering study and input from community meetings. The result was a motion selecting Option 3 of the alignment alternatives and direction to staff to return to Council with an informational update to answer questions raised by Council at the December 2, 2014 meeting. It was understood at the time that the City was updating its Citywide Travel Demand Model and staff would return to Council once the Model was updated, calibrated and running. The Model is necessary to answer questions related to future traffic projections. Option 3 was determined to be advantageous because it has the greatest potential for slowing vehicle traffic, it will require the least amount of overall right-of-way acquisition area, and the least number of trees to be removed. Option 3 is included as Attachment 2 of this report.
This staff report provides information utilizing the Citywide Travel Demand Model as well as information regarding Fire Department Travel times and call distribution by fire station.
TRAFFIC PROJECTIONS
To better analyze the City's local travel demands, Public Works staff, in conjunction with Omni-Means, Ltd., developed a new Citywide Travel Demand Model to supplement the Regional Napa-Solano Travel Demand Model managed by Solano Transportation Authori...
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