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<br /> <br />1970 Broadway, Suite 740 <br />Oakland, CA 94612-2219 <br />510.763.2061 <br />www.dksassociates.com <br /> <br />Seattle, WA ꞏ Portland, OR ꞏ Salem, OR ꞏ Oakland, CA ꞏ Sacramento, CA ꞏ Anaheim, CA ꞏ Austin, TX <br />TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: November 2, 2018 <br />TO: Reh-Lin Chen, PE, PTOE, City of San Leandro <br />Dean Hsiao, PhD, PE, PTOE, City of San Leandro <br />FROM: David Mahama, PE <br />Maria Tribelhorn, PE <br />SUBJECT: Fairmont Drive Class IV Bike Lane Installation Project P# 18035-000 <br />This memorandum summarizes the analysis undertaken for the installation of Class IV bike <br />lanes along Fairmont Drive in the City of San Leandro. <br />HISTORICAL BACKGROUND <br />As recommended in the Bayfair Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Study and the City’s <br />Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan (adopted in March 2018), the City is interested in the <br />installation of Class IV bike lane facilities on both sides of Fairmont Drive between Hesperian <br />Boulevard and East 14th Street (SR 185). A Class IV separated bikeway, often referred to as <br />cycle track or protected bike lane, is for exclusive use of bicycles, physically separated from <br />motor vehicle traffic with a vertical feature. The separation may include, but is not limited to, <br />grade separation, flexible posts, inflexible barriers, curb medians, or on-street parking. <br />Installation of a Class IV bikeway on the study corridor necessitates implementation of a road <br />diet, which is a reduction in the number of travel lanes used for automobile traffic. The right <br />lane, previously used for automobile traffic, would be reallocated to bicycle use on the <br />separated bikeway. Currently, this segment of Fairmont Drive has three lanes in each <br />direction. This road diet project would result in a reduction to two lanes in each direction. <br />The purpose of this memo is to present a conceptual design for the Class IV bikeway and to <br />assess the potential traffic operational impacts of reducing the number of lanes as a result of <br />the proposed project. DKS assessed the impact on the Fairmont Drive study corridor between <br />Hesperian Boulevard and East 14th Street, for the existing year and the cumulative year. The <br />analysis included both arterial level of service (LOS) analysis and signalized intersection LOS <br />analysis. The signalized intersections included in this study are: <br />1. Fairmont Drive/Hesperian Boulevard <br />2. Fairmont Drive/Bayfair Drive <br />3. Fairmont Drive/East 14th Street (SR185) <br /> <br />Figure 1 illustrates the study area. <br />164