City of San Jose, CA Transportation, 22 Sep 2022

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From YouTube: Español: Ciudad de San José En Movimiento proyectos de rápida implementación

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Este video proporciona una visión general sobre los diseños de proyectos de rápida implementación incluidos en “En Movimiento”, el plan de la ciudad para mejorar el transporte multimodal en el este de San José. Estos proyectos de rápida implementación están enfocados en varias calles, para convertirlas en calles más seguras para los peatones, las personas que montan bicicleta y las personas que utilizan transporte publico.

Estos seis proyectos cubren segmentos de las siguientes calles:

1. 21st Street
2. 28th Street
3. 33rd Street
4. Jose Figueres Avenue, Scharff Avenue, and Packing Place
5. Sunset Avenue
6. William Street and Court

Si quiere saber más sobre estos proyectos y para acceder los planes completos visita nuestra página web: https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/transportation/projects-planning/east-san-jos-mtip/en-movimiento-quick-strike-project

Music Credit: Mixaund Music, https://mixaund.bandcamp.com/

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Hello Thank you for your interest in the on the move, quick strike project. This presentation will walk you through the treatments you can expect to see in the seven corridors of the on the move, quick strike project and provide a guide to understanding the complete sets of plans for each corridor that are available for review on the quick stride on the move project website.

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The goal of this project is to make these seven corridors safer and more comfortable for all people, whether walking,, biking, or driving a car. We want people to slow down on these streets and take care of each other.

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This project is funded by a grant from the mtc metropolitan transportation commission. In early 2021, the mtc awarded the city of san jose 1.4 million dollars to design and build seven Bike Boulevard projects.

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The grant requires that projects s are ready for turnkey construction within a year of the grant agreement. We are on track to achieve that partial goal and expect construction of these corridors to begin in spring 2023.

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If you are not familiar with the East movement, is a community transportation plan finalized by the Department of Transportation in 2020 and adopted by the San José City Council in February 2021. The plan builds on previous planning efforts and proposes projects that support both transit and walking and biking in san jose east on the move is where the seven corridors of the quick strike project were originally conceived.

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Here we see the seven corridors of the project from northwest to southeast. We have the following: twenty first street, william street and william court street and pretty avenue street cameron avenue sunset Avenue and corridor José Figueres shorts, Avenue parking, Place and Doberman Ave nue.

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This map also shows another project within the planning boundaries of on the move. Taken as a whole, you can visualize a multimodal network that will allow you to get around in a variety of ways.

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As you can see here, the design process to date has included a extensive community participation, For more information on the participation process. You can read the summary of participation posted on the movement's quick stride project website, as well as view some recordings of past meetings. A link to the quick stride project website is included in the notes below this presentation. You can also google moving san jose and find it that way. You.

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May be asking what is a bike boulevard in general? A bike boulevard is a street that has no room for bike lanes and neither for traffic lanes, so people in bicycle and drivers must share the lane.

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For this to be safe and comfortable, we employ what is called traffic calming traffic calming consists of infrastructure and signage that creates greater awareness among drivers and motivates them to slow down project goals. Quick strike are to make these seven corridors safer and more comfortable for walkers and bikers and to get drivers to slow down.

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This project was originally conceived with building materials quickly fast construction means cost-effective paint and plastic treatments that can be used in the short term to see the benefits of the project without delay. If you have been following this project from the beginning, you may know that there was some hope that we could get more funding to implement a full build with concrete and other more materials durable. This funding did not materialize, so we are going with quick, build materials. As originally conceived.

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We will use the fg 300 sidewalk system shown here on the right. The fg, 300 posts and sidewalks are highlighted on the plan sets by a 1 with a box around it. As shown here on the left now I'd like to walk you through the different treatments that you're going to see and give you an idea of , where you're going to see them AND.

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Also what they're going to look like once they're built the first treatment that we have are the known curb extensions in english as bolbouts, curb extensions increase visibility by preventing parking near intersections or mid-block crossings. They also reduce crossing distance for pedestrians and encourage drivers to slow down.

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Here is an example of curb extensions from the set of the plan for the chunieves street. You can see the number one in two boxes indicating two sets of fg 300 sidewalks to create the sidewalk extensions. Sidewalk extensions are a common treatment. We have them on Last 24th, Twin, Street Street on pretty Avenue Cameron Avenue, Sunset, Avenue and William Street.

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Now I'd like to show you How can be seen Here we see the corner of Street and witn Avenue as it looks today.

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This is what could have been after the project was built. You will notice that the car on the right would have been prevented from parking so close to the intersection, if the curb extensions had been. Instead, when the original photograph.

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Below was taken, we have hardened centerlines by hardened centerlines, we mean we will install the fg 300 sidewalk system along the centerline of the roadway at intersection approaches hardened centerlines prevent Drivers. Turning left make quick left turns. a intersection where people may be.

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Crossing This is what the hardened centerlines look like on the plan set. This image actually shows two curb extensions with a hardened centerline in the middle again notice. The number one with the box around it indicating fg300 sidewalk system hardened centerlines, are included in most project corridors. Including, the following: 24th Street 28, Street, Pretty, Avenue, Cameron, Avenue, shorts, Avenue, Sunset, Avenue, William, Street,.

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Let's see what this would look like on 28 Street This is a photo of Twenty Street and San Fernando.

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Now we see what it would look like with added crosswalks and a hardened center line. You can see that it would be unlikely that the truck on the right would have parked so close to the corner and line central hardened, because it would have been blocking traffic.

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The next treatment we have are called bottlenecks. Bottlenecks are a combination of the first two treatments, curb extensions and hardened center lines. Bottlenecks reduce vehicle speeds by visually, narrowing the roadway think when driving through a toll booth. There are plenty of room to fit your car, but most people slow down to ensure their passage.

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We already saw an example of a bottleneck in the shot set when we looked at the hardened center lines.

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Block in Cameron we have bottlenecks at 24, Street, Bonita, Avenue, José, Figueres, Avenue, Cameron, Avenue, Sunset, Avenue, William, Street.

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Now, let's see how a bottleneck would look on camera. Here we have the current configuration and looking east.

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We now see the fg 300 poles that border the outside of the driveway and the center line visually narrowing the roadway and motivating drivers to slow down.

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The next treatment we have are median islands. They are somewhat similar to the hardened center line, but instead of a row of bollards, we use three wide. Just like the hardened center lines, encourage slower, turns and safer crossings also narrow in the travel lane to encourage slowing down.

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Here we have a median island in the plan set. You can see two rows with an additional bollard at the tip and end as you can see list here. Plan sets show median islands in almost all corridors except Street and parts of the corridor in José, figueres,.

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Let's see some renderings of a median island using the fg 300 sidewalk system. First, we have sunset boulevard in cameron. Looking towards the north.

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This is what it would look like with the median island.

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Here is another visualization n. This time we are on william street and lightint looking west first without the median island.

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Now, with the fg 300 island, you can see how the roadway narrows to encourage drivers to slow down.

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The next treatment we have is the chicanes the chicanes they occur when we use curb extensions to create an s-curve in the roadway. This motivates drivers to slow down, because the roadway is no longer straight corridors with chicanes later and First Street, Bonita, Avenue and William Worth. These three corridors have parking on one side of the street. Treatment of chicanes will include alter parking from side to side. Let me show you what I mean with some laser views. Resort Street, So I, know see story street. Today we are looking north towards st james.

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We have cars parked at along the left side of the road and two travel lanes on the right side.

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Here. We see the Chicana creating a curve in the roadway, as we head south on Florard Street towards the bottom of the image we see. The lanes, traffic shifts and parking shifts to the other side of the street. Here is another view from street level. First of all, as seen.

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Here today, with the chicane changing the travel lanes from right to left.

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Our final treatment is the mini roundabout or neighborhood roundabout. This treatment slows vehicles through uncontrolled intersections and decreases the types of dangerous collisions.

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We recently installed several quick-build roundabouts along San Antonio Street. We will use different materials for the roundabout. That is part from the quick strike project. Instead of painting ceramic domes and plastic poles, we will use a system of plastic and rubber sidewalks with bolts Here. We see an example of one of those roundabouts in the San Francisco presidio.

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We only have one roundabout included in the project designs, quick strike. It will be at the intersection of José, figueres and alexian Drive. Here you can see that this intersection is quite wide.

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Looking at the maps, we can see that drivers will no longer be able to speed directly through this intersection. Instead, they will have to slow down to maneuver around the roundabout and access the islands.

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So what comes next? As I said at the beginning, the quick strike project schedule has a relatively quick timeline that may be why they called it quick strike, quick strike We expect construction to begin in spring 2023. As we build improvements to the quick strike project. City staff will also seek funding in order to develop the long-term vision or timeline for these corridors.

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We are happy to have the rapid, build treatments and their benefits in the short term, but we will not be satisfied with that. We will also evaluate the rapid, build treatments to understand if and how we can improve the designs.

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Thank you for viewing this presentation. I recommend checking out the quick strike project website If, you have any questions or comments. Send, an email to peter punto rice at San, joséca.com Thanks have a nice day.