Soquel Corridor Safety Project

The City of Santa Cruz (City) has completed a draft Safety Action Plan that identifies transportation safety needs and potential projects within the City. The City is evaluating a potential application for Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Cycle 13 funding to implement safety and multimodal improvements along Soquel Avenue between River Street South and Seabright Avenue.

The Consultant shall coordinate closely with City staff and use the City's draft Safety Action Plan, available traffic data, development-related traffic studies, and other available information to evaluate the proposed improvements. The City seeks a qualified transportation engineering consultant (Consultant) to evaluate the proposed project, develop planning-level design information sufficient to support cost estimating, and provide traffic analysis and documentation necessary to support the HSIP Cycle 13 grant application.

The potential project aims to increase corridor safety by reducing speeds and providing greater separation and visibility of modal users within existing right of way. This project would include the following elements:

Signalized Intersections:

• The proposed project would add no-turn on red prohibitions, leading pedestrian intervals and modify existing coordination plans to reduce the vehicle progression speed.

• Soquel Avenue and River Street South: modifications to intersection geometry and traffic signal to remove slip lane, and reduce lanes on eastern approach.

• Soquel and N./S. Branciforte: Remove split phasing on Soquel and modify to protected left-turns and evaluate split phasing or protected left turns for both Branciforte approaches.

• Soquel and Seabright Avenue: addition of a northbound right turn overlap.

• At intersections, the City desires to maintain separation for bicycles with protected intersection style treatments. The City would accept a Class 2 bike facility where separation is not feasible.

Unsignalized intersections:

• Additions of RRFB and associated signage, striping, and concrete work as needed at

• Soquel/Doyle

• Soquel/Pennsylvania

• Soquel/Ocean View

• Additions of pedestrian median islands at existing marked crossings where feasible

• Addition of median noses at side street crosswalks to serve as gateway features for changing roadway context

Roadway Segment

• Minimum condition: Addition of separated bike lanes the length of the project area.

• Parking should be maintained on one side of the road where feasible River South to N./S. Branciforte: Remove two travel lanes, add center turn lane, add separation to existing bike lane