South Santa Cruz 9 Capital Preventive Maintenance Project

South Santa Cruz 9 Capital Preventive Maintenance Project

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) proposes to preserve 14.668 lane miles of existing Class 3 Flexible Pavement on State Route 9 in Santa Cruz County from the intersection with State Route 1 (Cabrillo Highway) to El Solyo Heights Drive in the community of Felton. The project would use a Capital Preventive Maintenance strategy, including but not limited to dig outs, cold planing followed by placement of Hot Mix Asphalt to avoid decreasing the vertical clearance, upgrading guardrail to Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware standards, repairing or replacing culverts as needed, replacing census stations, replacing sign panels, and upgrading curb ramps to the Americans with Disabilities Act standards where applicable. In addition, through coordination with the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, the project includes some pedestrian and bicyclist improvements outlined in the Highway 9/San Lorenzo Valley Complete Streets Corridor Plan and the San Lorenzo Valley Schools Access Study. These elements include Americans with Disabilities Act curb ramp upgrades, new sidewalks, curb extensions at selected crosswalks, remodeling of transit stops, a new crosswalk, upgraded crosswalks using high-visibility striping, modification of traffic signals/phasing, adding a two-left-turn-central-lane between Graham Hill Road and Hihn Street in Felton, striping new bike boxes, restriping existing intersection guidelines, and creating or upgrading pedestrian islands. The project would require work off the paved roadway, trenching, grading, and other ground disturbance, access roads, temporary construction easements, drainage work/alterations, night work, utility relocation, and tree and vegetation removal. All of the proposed improvements are at spot locations (see Section 1.4.1, Build Alternative). State Route 9 geometric features (horizontal alignment, vertical profile, superelevation, sight distance, and cross slope) would remain unchanged.

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz

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Transportation:Highway/Freeway (Maintenance)

Roadway maintenance

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