Cathedral City Active Transportation Plan

Project Title
Cathedral City Active Transportation Plan

Invitation #
22-003

Bid Posting Date
06/03/2021 2:30 PM (PDT)

Project Stage
Bidding

Bid Due Date
07/06/2021 10:00 AM (PDT)

Response Format
Electronic

Project Type
RFP (Request for Proposal)

Response Types
Response File
Cost Proposal (required)
Conflict of Interest forms -Prime and Subs (required)

Type of Award
Lump Sum

Categories
91846 - Feasibility Studies (Consulting)
91892 - Urban Planning Consulting
91894 - Traffic Consulting
91896 - Transportation Consulting
918963 - Transit & Non-motorized Planning & Analysis
918964 - Transportation Management & Coordination
918967 - Transportation & Economic Development
918968 - Transportation Investment Analysis
918969 - Transportation Modeling Support

License Requirements


Department
Contracts

Address
900 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1700
Los Angeles, California

County
Los Angeles

Bid Valid
90 days

Liquidated Damages


Estimated Bid Value


Start/Delivery Date
September/October 2021

Project Duration
18 months

Bid Bond

Bid Bond
0.00%

Payment Bond
0.00%

Performance Bond
0.00%

Pre-Bid Meeting Information

Pre-Bid Meeting
No

Online Q&A

Online Q&A
Yes

Q&A Deadline
06/15/2021 3:00 PM (PDT)

Contact Information

Contact Info
Lori Tapp 213-236-1957
tapp@scag.ca.gov

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Owner's Agent


Description

Scope of Services
The City of Cathedral City (“City”) has the objective of creating a Citywide Active Transportation Plan (“Plan”) that will establish and prioritize improvements, programs, and policies to support active transportation goals for the community. The Plan will incorporate input from local and regional partnering community groups and agencies. The City anticipates that an adopted and implemented Plan will increase active users, improve general health of residents, and promote safe alternatives for transportation. This will be done by increasing bicyclist and pedestrian access to regional transit facilities and by establishing Safe Routes to School policies for the City.

Other Details
Background:
The transportation system is essential to the functioning of the City and the well-being and prosperity of the community. It connects people and businesses to goods and services, and links them to the region, state, nation and world. Although transportation is often measured in terms of mobility, it also creates access to opportunity. The way we build our City has an impact on our mobility and, by extension, our access to opportunity.
While strides have been made in regional opportunities for active transportation; local streets around schools, the City Center and bus transfer station lack continuous sidewalk and bike lanes. Dirt pathways are used by students for walking and biking with missing to non-connecting sidewalks, and seasonal flooding creates hazardous footpaths in the absence of curbs or gutters. The City’s major arterial roadways located in industrial and commercial centers have some designated bike lanes and sidewalks, but there are gaps in these continuous safety features between residential and commercial areas in both the north and south portions of the City, which include many employment and transit centers. An analysis of the local high school found that 3,100 feet of sidewalk and 8 curb ramps are needed for safe movement of students.
Lack of sidewalks, curbs and gutters force students and residents to walk in the streets near traffic vehicles. During inclement/rainy weather, there are sheets of muddy areas which cause walking and bicycling difficulty. Additionally, some connecting streets do not have sidewalks, curbs and gutters to ensure continuous “pedestrian friendly” pathways to transit and other nearby destinations. Dirt pathways along residential streets with no sidewalks limit walking and bicycling opportunities for both pedestrians and students.
The City of Cathedral City’s Active Transportation Plan shall supplement and enhance the regional ATP by providing a detailed localized plan. It shall specifically improve mobility for people walking and biking by providing a comprehensive plan for active transportation that includes bicycle elements, pedestrian elements, Safe Routes to School (SRTS) elements, first mile/last mile connections to transit options and major destinations in the area. The City would further encourage active transportation by having bike and running races and other events that increase the sense of mobility; this can range from having 5k walks/runs to having wayfinding signage to the nearest hiking trails, in the attempt to promote physical activity within the community.
The City has had the foresight to include much of the above cited non-designated routing into the current Draft General Plan Update. The City has completed the Draft General Plan update “Imagine 2040” and which may be adopted in summer 2021. In the General Plan are detailed transportation analyses which designate the City proposed pedestrian, bicycle and Neighborhood Electric Vehicle routes. The main goal of the proposed Active Transportation Plan is to identify biking and walking strategies as well as projects deemed relevant to this region. It will address specific issues related to bicycle elements, pedestrian elements, Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS), and wayfinding signage.

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