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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to enter into Agreement No. 07-4825 with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for a rehabilitation project along I-710 freeway within the City of Long Beach and execute any amendments thereto. (Districts 7,8,9)
DISCUSSION
In 2005, Caltrans resurfaced the 1-710 freeway from Pacific Coast Highway to the 1-405 freeway. At the time, the project implemented a number of leading measures, including a new construction management plan that called for closing half of the freeway during weekends and splitting the open side of the freeway to carry two-way traffic. During the implementation of that project, City traffic engineers and traffic signal technicians worked weekends to modify traffic signals as necessary to keep traffic flowing optimally around freeway ramp closures and on primary detour routes. Caltrans reimbursed the City for its overtime and equipment costs for the work performed. Thanks to the cooperative effort of Caltrans and the City of Long Beach, this new traffic control concept has become the model for major freeway resurfacing work on many projects throughout Los Angeles County.
Caltrans has recently approached the City to again work cooperatively on their latest project to resurface the 1-710 freeway from the 1-405 freeway northerly to Firestone Boulevard in the City of Southgate. Caltrans anticipates that their contractor will need up to 34 weekends to complete the entire project, of which, about half of those weekends could impact traffic operations within the City of Long Beach. Traffic impacts in Long Beach will most likely be concentrated near closed freeway ramps and primarily along Atlantic Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard in Districts 7, 8 and 9. City traffic engineers have reviewed the proposed traffic management plans in coordination with Caltrans engineers and it has been jointly estimated that, should the City provide similar engineering an...
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