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Bicycle, Pedestrian & Trails Committee Agenda Report January 23, 2023 Item 5 SUBJECT: STATUS UPDATE ON THE WEST LAS POSITAS BOULEVARD BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR PLAN SUMMARY In 2018, the City of Pleasanton adopted an update to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. The updated Master Plan includes provisions to make the City more pedestrian and bicycle friendly by adopting a low stress “all ages and abilities” design philosophy and promote pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure that can be used by the entire population. The Master Plan identifies the West Las Positas Boulevard corridor between Foothill Road and Fairlands Drive as the highest priority corridor for pedestrian and bicycle improvements. The City Council identified West Las Positas corridor improvements as a high priority project in 2019 and reaffirmed this in 2021. Accordingly, the West Las Positas Corridor Improvement Plan was developed with extensive public input, and endorsed by the Bicycle, Pedestrian and Trails Committee (BPTC) in December 2019 and the project was ready to be presented to City Council in February of 2020. Presentation of this project to the City Council was delayed due to the pandemic. At the same time, the City has continued to advance the planning and design for reconstruction of West Las Positas to address the ongoing issue of settling of the roadway surface. In 2021 the City Council, through the Work Plan process, combined the West Las Positas Reconstruction and the West Las Positas Corridor Improvement projects into a single project. The WLP Corridor Improvement Plan was presented to City Council and approved on November 15, 2022. Approval of the WLP Corridor allows for appropriate design direction during the 35-percent design drawings of the WLP Reconstruction project. Staff also requested and Council authorized a more limited set of “quick build” pedestrian- and bicycle improvements that can be implemented in the near term, at relatively modest cost. To expedite the project, the quick build will be constructed by O’Grady Paving, Inc. as part of a contract add-on to last year’s Annual Street Resurfacing project. The contract add-on goes to City Council for approval on February 7, 2023. At the time of Council approval, the quick build was estimated at $255,000. Based on the current proposal, the estimate for the project is approximately $200,000. Staff is providing the striping plans for the quick build section of WLP for BPTC review (see Attachment 1).