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that maintenance work does not endanger the health and safety of the public or <br />cause hazards to the safety of landscape maintenance employees. Construction <br />signs, lights, barricades, etc. shall conform to the latest revision of the Manual of <br />Uniform Traffic Control Devices, by the California Department of Transportation. <br />Traffic lanes shall be kept open at all times except when maintenance work may <br />require temporary closing of the lane immediately adjacent to the work area. At <br />no time shall there be less than one traffic lane open in each direction. The <br />Contractor shall minimize closing of traffic lanes by parking maintenance vehicles <br />for loading and unloading of materials and landscape maintenance equipment in <br />the left hand turn lanes(s) at the beginning of the median taper. Appropriate <br />safety devices such as traffic cones, warning signs, early warning safety directional <br />boards and/or barricades shall still be used as required. <br />Whenever the Contractor's operations create a condition hazardous to traffic or to <br />the public, the Contractor shall, without cost to the City, furnish, erect and <br />maintain such barricades, lights, signs, and other devices and take such other <br />precautions as are necessary to prevent damage or accidents or injury to the <br />public and the Contractor's employees. The Contractor shall also furnish such <br />flagmen as are necessary to give adequate warning to traffic or to the public of <br />any dangerous conditions to the public. All flagging costs shall be born solely by <br />the Contractor. <br />It is the Contractor's responsibility to provide for the safety of traffic and the public. <br />This includes responsibility to inspect, and identify conditions that render any <br />portions of the jobsite unsafe. The City shall be notified immediately of any unsafe <br />conditions that requires major correction. The Contractor shall be responsible for <br />making minor corrections, including, but not limited to; filling holes in turf areas and <br />paving, using barricades or traffic cones to alert the public to the existence of <br />hazards, and replacing valve box covers. <br />Pedestrian travel shall be maintained at all times along both sides of all streets or <br />streets where work as part of this contract is being performed. All temporary <br />pedestrian walkways shall be at least four (4) feet wide and fully accessible to <br />handicapped pedestrians. In all cases, pedestrian walkways shall be separated <br />from vehicular traffic by a clear area of at least six (6) feet. <br />Fuel Conservation and Low Emission Equipment <br />The Contractor shall implement strategies in work operations to reduce fossil fuel <br />consumption and emissions such as: use hand powered equipment when possible; <br />minimize use of gas -powered blowers; select the smallest, most fuel-efficient <br />equipment to accomplish the work; consider vehicles that operate on natural gas <br />or biodiesel; maintain equipment properly and keep it well -tuned; and emphasize <br />employee carpooling to jobsites. <br />RFP 55027 CITYWIDE TURF MAINTENANCE Page 62 of 63 <br />