Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional engineering services contract with Bird & Houk Associates Inc./OHM.
The City of Columbus has developed a Bicentennial Bikeways Plan (BBP) which was adopted by City Council on June 2, 2008. The Plan identifies specific bikeways improvement projects located throughout the City. The Division of Mobility Options is responsible for the management and implementation of these improvement projects.
The consultant will deliver work products including such items as conceptual designs, preliminary alignments, traffic analyses, preliminary cost estimates, preliminary environmental analyses, as well as determinations of feasibility and constructability. Preliminary engineering reports shall serve as the source document for future detailed design efforts.
There are a variety of individual projects to be analyzed as part of this contract. These improvements are mostly within the right-of-way, and will consist mainly of projects identified in the Bicentennial Bikeways Plan such as shared use paths, bike lanes, and shared routes and spot improvements. Potential projects to be analyzed include, but are not limited to, the following:
Bikeways:
Citywide Lane Striping and Road Diet Analysis
West Broad Street Bike Lanes (Central Avenue to COSI)
Livingston Avenue Bike Lanes (High Street to Brice Road)
Intersection Improvements
Railroad Crossing Improvements
Town Street and Rich Street Two-Way Conversion (SR315 to Scioto River)
Work also includes conducting the necessary traffic engineering and parking analysis to refine BBP recommendations in to practical "complete street" solutions. For example, road diets that require the removal of travel lanes and/or parking lanes must be analyzed for safety and capacity impacts as well as impacts to adjacent residents or businesses. Recommendations from the traffic engineering and parking analysis will be illustrated in a...
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