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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: June 4, 2012 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 12 -181 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.K. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Uchenna Udemezue <br />Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: David Baum <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE: Staff Report for a Resolution Approving Plans and Specifications and Calling <br />for Bids for the Fiber Loop Project <br />N* is]JiIJiI;10IIL ,II[a]0K <br />Staff recommends approval of plans and specifications and a call for bids for the subject <br />project. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The City has been informed that the 1 -880 HOV project is scheduled to commence in Fall <br />2012. The project will add a 3 -mile long High- Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane to 1 -880 <br />southbound from Hegenberger Road in Oakland to the Marina Boulevard exit in San Leandro. <br />As part of the project, the 1 -880 interchanges at Davis Street and Marina Boulevard will be <br />reconstructed to allow for the wider freeway. Unfortunately, the project will disconnect the <br />fiber optic cables at the east end of the overcrossing on Davis Street, thereby eliminating <br />communication to all of our traffic signals and facilities west of 1 -880. <br />Analysis <br />By adding fiber optic cables on Washington Avenue between Springlake Drive and Fargo <br />Avenue, the communications going through Davis Street to Doolittle Drive will be routed <br />through East 14th Street, Hesperian Boulevard, Halcyon Drive, Washington Avenue, Fargo <br />Avenue, Farnsworth Street, Manor Boulevard, Wicks Boulevard, Merced Street, Williams <br />Street, and back to Doolittle Drive. The result will be the establishment of a complete <br />redundant fiber optic ring throughout the city. This will allow us to maintain communication <br />with our traffic signals and facilities that are located west of 1 -880 during the construction of <br />the 1 -880 HOV project. <br />The work will include pulling fiber optic cable on Washington Avenue between Springlake <br />Drive and Fargo Avenue. The 288 strand fiber will be pulled through existing conduit <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 512912012 <br />