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Costa Mesa to use federal grant to upgrade nearly all traffic signals for pedestrian safety
Summary
Using a roughly $4 million federal grant with local match, council approved a project to upgrade 128 of 131 traffic signals with features such as retroreflective backplates, countdown pedestrian signals, leading pedestrian intervals and battery backup; construction and inspection contracts were approved.
The council approved staff recommendations Aug. 4 to move construction forward on a citywide signal-modernization project funded principally by a federal grant (about $4 million) with a local match from OCTA Measure M2 funds.
Transportation Services Manager Paul Martin said the project will address safety using improvements including retroreflective border backplates, countdown pedestrian signals, larger signal heads, leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs), battery backup systems and emergency-vehicle preemption. "Almost all of the signals are gonna be touched," Martin said—128 of the city’s 131 signals are in the scope.
Staff reported they received 10 bids and recommended the lowest responsive bidder (Econalyte Systems) for construction at a contract amount just under $3 million and recommended C2PM for construction management and inspection services at about $450,000. Council approved the construction and CM contracts and authorized a small additional local contribution to leverage extra grant funds to expand eligible improvements. The project’s estimated construction completion is next spring.
