City of Campbell September 2019 BPAC Updates
Editor’s note: Thanks to BPAC Chair Carmen Lynaugh for her dispatches from the front lines of Campbell bicycle and pedestrian policymaking! Want to learn more about your city’s Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee? Click here.September 2019 Update from the City of Campbell BPACWritten by Carmen Lynaugh, City of Campbell BPAC Chair
San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail: Campbell City Council at their August 21, 2018 approved the alignment for Reaches 1 & 2, and approved moving forward with completing the environmental assessment including CEQA and preliminary design for only these reaches. The approved alignment for Reaches 1 & 2 is along the top of bank of San Tomas Creek between Westmont Ave. and San Tomas Aquino Road (bend). Staff is continuing to work with stakeholders on preliminary design and environmental documents.
Dell Avenue Bike Lane/Bike Route Project: Staff has secured TDA funding to install bike lanes and sharrows on Dell Avenue between East Sunnyoaks Ave. and Knowles Dr. and on Hacienda Ave. between Winchester Blvd. and Dell. The work will consist of installing bike lanes where the street width allows for their installation and sharrows where the width is insufficient to support a bike lane. Additional signage will be installed to inform drivers of the new installation and to educate them as to “Share the Road”. The project will be under construction in October 2019.
Eden Avenue Sidewalks: This project will install sidewalks on the east side of Eden Ave. across from Rosemary Elementary School. The project will provide a necessary safe route to the school. The project started construction on Sept. 3, 2019 and anticipated to be complete in 9 weeks.
Harriet Avenue Traffic Calming Project: This project will include the installation of speed humps; bulb-out sidewalks and a pedestrian hybrid beacons system at McCoy Ave. The project will also include green bike lanes with painted buffer marks. The project was bid and awarded. The contractor started on August 26, 2019. Due to a long lead time to order the flashing beacon the project will not be completed until January 2020.
Winchester Blvd. Overlay Project: This project consists of overlaying Winchester Blvd. from the northern city limit line (approximately 171 feet north of Rosemary Lane) to the southern city limit line (at the intersection of Knowles Drive). The work will also include striping to install bike lanes where the width of the traveled way allows for them. In areas where there is not enough room for bike lanes sharrows will be installed. The work is scheduled for a start approximately in April 2020.