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: p City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: November 7, 2011 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 11 -223 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.G. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Lianne Marshall <br />Interim City Manager /Executive Director <br />BY: Uchenna Udemezue <br />Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: James O'Leary, Interim Finance Director <br />TITLE: Staff Report for Approving Plans and Specifications and Calling for Bids for the <br />Bancroft Avenue and 136th Avenue Traffic Signal Project, Project No. <br />11- 150 -38 -330; State Project No. SR2SL- 5041(038) <br />:7 Elsie] LTA LTA l:401l17_ II_Q01K <br />Staff recommends approval of plans and specifications and call for bids for the subject <br />project. <br />Background <br />The intersection of Bancroft Avenue and 136th Avenue is currently a four -way <br />stop - controlled intersection on a route connecting the San Leandro High School Main <br />Campus and the Korematsu 9th Grade Campus. Before and after school hours, the <br />intersection is highly congested due to the large number of pedestrians and vehicles <br />converging on this location. <br />Analysis <br />To increase safety at the intersection, staff determined that converting this intersection from <br />four -way stop - controlled to signal - controlled would be the appropriate method to control <br />vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic. <br />The project will construct a new traffic signal system with bicycle detection and a separate <br />pedestrian signal phase that will permit simultaneous pedestrian crossings in all directions. <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 11/1/2011 <br />