Council advances separate roadwork projects
Repairs, upgrades planned for the long term
Three separate road repair and landscaping projects were advanced by the Woodland City Council this week, although none of the work is scheduled to get underway until later this year and even into 2022 or 2023.
The roads include East Main Street, Gibson Road, and Matmor Road from West Street to Gibson as well as East Gum Avenue.
All have had some upgrades in advance of major rehabilitation. Gibson and East Main, for example, have had new water lines and other utilities undergrounded over the past year while Matmor has had some minor patching done because it is so badly degraded. Here’s what’s planned:
East Main Street Improvement Project
The council approved the plans and specifications authorizing bid advertisement
for the work, which is budgeted at $5.9 million. Funding includes $2.956 million of Bike and Pedestrian and Local /Regional Transportation Grant funds from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, $50,000 of Water Enterprise Funds, $1 million of Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, $1.6 million of Measure E funds, and $265,000 from Caltrans. The project budget includes the costs for design, project management, construction management/inspection, and construction.
The project is located on East Main from East to the Interstate 5 northbound off-ramp. Part of the project is located within the State of California right of way and work within the state’s right of way will need to be completed under an encroachment permit.
As envisioned, the project will install a landscape separated, off-street bike path on the north side of East Main between Pioneer Avenue and Matmor Road. The project also includes microsurfacing the pavement and restriping the road between East and the I-5 overcrossing of East Main Street. Restriping will include the narrowing of travel lanes to reduce vehicle speeds and the widening of existing on-street bike lanes and adding bike lanes where there are none.
Additionally, the project will install curb and gutter, landscape, fencing, irrigation and storm drainage on the north side of East Main between Pioneer Avenue and East Street.
This project was delayed in late 2015, when the city was awarded funding for the reconstruction of West Court and West Main streets.
Staff is anticipating a bid opening and a return to council in May for construction contract award. The project is anticipated to be complete in late 2021.
Gibson Road Improvement Project
The council authorized bid advertisement for the Gibson Road Bicycle/Pedestrian Mobility Project, which is between East and West streets. The project will tie in with the Safe Routes to School effort, which is upgrading Gibson between West Street and County Road 98.
The overall budget is $11.826 million. Funding includes $6.933 million from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments Regional Program grant funding, $600,000 in SACOG Regional State Active Transportation Program grant funding, $216,000 in Highway Safety Improvement Program funding, $150,000 in Water Enterprise funds, $150,000 in Sewer Enterprise funds, $300,000 in Measure E funds, $1.7 million in Measure F funds, and $1,777,700 in Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account funds.
Construction funding for the projects will be updated in the 2022 Capital Budget.
The project budget includes the costs for design, project management, construction management/inspection and construction.
Some advance work got going in 2020 and more will be done this summer.
Ultimately, the reconstruction will involve a two-mile-long corridor on Gibson Road from County Road 98 to East Street. The improvements include pavement rehabilitation, restriping narrower travel lanes to slow traffic, adding buffered bike lanes, constructing ADA-compliant curb ramps and sidewalk repairs, installing drainage improvements, and completing traffic signal improvements to include bicycle and pedestrian actuation. The projects also include installing a pedestrian-actuated lighted crossing at California Street and lane reconfigurations between Cottonwood Street and West Street from four-lanes to a three-lane corridor consisting of two narrow travel lanes and a two-way left turn lane.
The work is meant to upgrade this segment of Gibson Road by providing improved bicycle, pedestrian, and vehicle facilities to meet all modes of travel.
Matmor Road and E. Gum Avenue
The council approved a consultant agreement with Bennett Engineering Services not to exceed $400,000 for road maintenance and rehabilitation. The approved budget for the entire project is estimated at $7.48 million and includes $4.005 million from the city’s Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account, $2.275 million in Measure E funds, $1 million in Measure F funds, $100,00 in Water Enterprise funds, and $100,000 in Sewer Enterprise funds.
All of the project funding is programmed in fiscal year 2022 or later. In order to begin the project now, staff recommended that $100,000 be allocated to the 2021 fiscal year.
The project will improve the mile-long corridor of Matmor Road from Main Street to Gibson Road, and the half-mile-long corridor of E. Gum Avenue from East Street to Matmor Road. The work includes pavement rehabilitation, restriping narrower travel lanes to slow traffic, adding buffered bike lanes, constructing ADAcompliant curb ramps and sidewalk repairs, installing drainage improvements, and completing traffic signal improvements.
These improvements will transform the Matmor Road and E. Gum Avenue corridors into complete streets providing improved bicycle, pedestrian and vehicle facilities to ensure the corridors meet the needs of all modes of travel.
Staff anticipates project design to be completed and construction to begin in 2023.