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Recommendation to Award a One-Year Contract in the Amount Not to Exceed $261,544, including Contingency, to Park Engineering for Construction Management Services during the Construction Phase for the Cross Alameda Trail Project (Main Street to Constitution Way), No. P.W. 03-18-11; and Receive an Update on the Status of Completion of the Cross Alameda Trail (Main Street to Constitution Way). (Public Works 310-91402)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Recommendation to Award a One-Year Contract in the Amount Not to Exceed $261,544, including Contingency, to Park Engineering for Construction Management Services during the Construction Phase for the Cross Alameda Trail Project (Main Street to Constitution Way), No. P.W. 03-18-11; and Receive an Update on the Status of Completion of the Cross Alameda Trail (Main Street to Constitution Way)
BACKGROUND
Since 1991, the City has worked to implement the Cross Alameda Trail (CAT) project, with many segments now in design or constructed. Once completed, the entire CAT will be a premier east-west walking and bicycling corridor, with many sections completely separated from cars that stretches from the Seaplane Lagoon at Alameda Point to the Miller-Sweeney Bridge at Tilden Way for a total of four miles. Earlier this year, the Jean Sweeney Open Space Park segment from Constitution Way to Sherman Street was completed and it will open this fall.
The development of the Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway (RAMP)/Atlantic Avenue segment from Main Street to Constitution Way began in 2014. In 2015, the Transportation Commission (TC) and Planning Board approved the preliminary design for the Main Street to Webster Street segment, but the project was put on hold pending further soil analysis and the development of a soil remediation plan to meet the requirements of the Alameda County Department of Environmental Health (ACDEH). Meanwhile, in late 201...
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