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Modesto council awards $13.6 million Measure L contract for street repairs, trail work and traffic calming
Summary
The Modesto City Council on Feb. 4 accepted a packaged bid for six Measure L-funded street, trail and traffic-calming projects and authorized contracts with Bay Cities Paving & Grading Inc. for construction and TRC Engineers for construction management.
The Modesto City Council on Feb. 4 accepted bids and authorized contracts funded by Measure L to perform multiple local roadway, trail and traffic-calming projects across the city, awarding a construction contract to Bay Cities Paving & Grading Inc. and a construction-management contract to TRC Engineers.
City staff described the award as a single packaged contract that includes six projects: Scenic Drive pavement rehabilitation (Bodem Street to Oakdale Road), the Neighborhood ADA Improvement Program (67 curb-ramp locations), Dry Creek Trail Phase 2, Orangeburg Avenue resurfacing (adjacent to McHenry/Coffee corridors), Kansas Avenue pavement work, and the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program Cycle 1 (11 street segments to receive speed cushions or other calming measures).
Toby Wells, director of engineering services and city engineer, said the base construction bid accepted from Bay Cities was $12,319,904 with authorization for change orders up to $1,231,990 for a total not-to-exceed construction amount of $13,551,894. A separate agreement with TRC Engineers for construction management, inspection and materials testing was approved for a not-to-exceed $957,578. Wells said the projects are locally funded by Measure L and the city expects to begin construction in late spring to early summer.
The neighborhood ADA work includes 67 locations chosen for ADA ramp upgrades, prioritizing areas near schools. The traffic-calming work covers 11 street segments and will deploy speed cushions (designed with gaps to allow large emergency vehicles to straddle them) on streets that met the program’s volume-and-speed criteria; staff identified about 6–7 of the 11 locations as being in or near school neighborhoods. Examples listed in the staff presentation include Islay Way (four cushions), Pine Tree Lane (three cushions) and segments near Franklin Elementary and other schools.
Deputy Chief Shannon Evans of the Modesto Fire Department responded to council questions about emergency response and speed cushions, saying from his experience the modern speed-cushion designs “don’t seem to cause any damage to fire apparatus” and that he did not believe they would create significant response-time penalties. Wells also told councilors that the bids are locked-in for a 90-day period after receipt and that typical contract change-order rules apply for unforeseen scope changes.
Council members asked specific questions about locations and program funding during the presentation; council approved the resolutions to accept the bids and authorize staff to execute the contracts. The staff report and council action cite Measure L local funds as the source of project funding.
