Search Results

Filters

8120 Results Found

Costco Comments from 10/17 - 10/22

Agenda - October 25, 2019

Paving Work on 2nd and 3rd St

The City's contractor will be doing road work on Second Street at Shaver Street on the afternoon of Monday, October 21st. Road work on Third Street at Shaver Street will occur on the mornings of October 22nd and 23rd. Crews will be closing one lane at a time to repair the roadway surface. The work...

SMART Track Testing Operations Update: Saturday, October 19, 2019 – 5:00pm – 11:00pm

SMART will be testing pre-revenue operations in San Rafael this coming Saturday, October 19, 2019. The hours of operations are scheduled from approximately 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Operations will occur from the Larkspur station to Myrtle Avenue (near the south portal of the Puerto Suello Tunnel), including the 4th Street, 5th Avenue, and Mission...

Comments Oct 16-17, 2019

Form to Request Assistance Removing Vegetation

AmeriCorps Waiver Fall 2020

2019-10-21 Agenda Packet

Costco comments from October 15, 2019

Paving Work on Fifth Avenue

Wondering what all the action on Fifth Avenue is? Starting tomorrow morning, October 16 the City’s contractor, Ghilotti Bros. will be performing maintenance work on Fifth Avenue between J Street and Happy Lane. They'll be removing sections of about six inches of asphalt and replacing it with six inches of fresh asphalt. Signs displaying parking...

Curb Ramp Requirement

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires the City to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to the pedestrian routes in the public right-of-way.  Under ADA law, when a street, roadway or highway is altered, curb ramps must be provided where pedestrian walkways intersect the altered street.  Over the past several years, we have...

How does DPW select the streets for treatment?

Every two years, we hire a consultant to inspect and rate the condition of every city-maintained roadway.  The consultant then calculates each roadway segment’s “Pavement Condition Index” (PCI).  The PCI for each road is an initial starting point for us to identify roadways to include in upcoming resurfacing projects. PCI values range from 0-100 with 0...

What is Street Resurfacing?

The City of San Rafael has over 175 miles of roadway.  Our roadway system consists of asphalt concrete (AC) and concrete streets. Over the last 40 years, these roads have seen an increase in the vehicle traffic as well as a decrease in the amount of funding available to adequately repair and resurface these roadways. ...

Can you please add a second southbound right-turn from Hetherton Street onto Third Street?

Adding a second southbound right-turn lane from Hetherton Street onto Third Street would potentially increase the risk of pedestrian-vehicle conflicts in the crosswalk on the west leg of this already very congested intersection. To ensure the maximum safety of pedestrians, the City does not recommend installation of a second right-turn lane for southbound Hetherton Street...

How much will the project cost?

The estimated costs of the proposed project is $500,000, of which approximately half will be subsidized with a federal grant and the City contributing the remaining half.

When will the work be completed?

The City anticipates advertising the project in January/February 2020 to solicit construction bids with construction planned to begin in late Spring 2020.

Third and Hetherton Intersection Improvements

The City has received grant funding through the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP), as administered through Caltrans, to make improvements to the intersection of Third Street and Hetherton Street. Both streets are major arterials and serve as critical corridors with connections to the US 101 southbound on- and off-ramps, Downtown San Rafael, West Marin communities,...

Costco comments received 10/10/19 - 10/14/19

70 Irwin Drainage Improvements and Lane Closure

Valentine Corporation is starting work on the installation of additional drainage improvements for the 70 Irwin Street slide repair project on Monday. This will include 750 feet of v-ditch and approximately 1,000 feet of asphalt berm adjacent to the location of the slide. This work will take approximately 2 months to complete and will require...

East San Rafael Parking: Public Meeting on Monday, October 21st

Last October, new time limits were established in East San Rafael as part of the short-term strategy identified in the 2017 East San Rafael Parking Study, as a way to increase parking supply and improve parking. Since then, data has been collected on the turnover of parking seen in both the commercial & residential areas....

Close window