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Page 1 MEMORANDUM To: Jessica Manzi, City of Redwood City From: Ben Huie, P.E., Kimley-Horn Date: October 3, 2016 Subject: Farm Hill Boulevard Street Improvement Pilot Project: FINAL Project Evaluation Introduction The Farm Hill Boulevard Street Improvement Pilot Project started in September 2015. The pilot project reconfigured the travel lanes on Jefferson Avenue and Farm Hill Boulevard from Alameda de las Pulgas to Woodhill Drive. Figure 1 shows the project limits and vicinity map. The overall goal of this pilot project is to increase safety for all roadway users by increasing driver compliance with the speed limit and by reducing exposure to multiple lanes of traffic. Prior to the pilot, there were two lanes of traffic in each direction. For most segments of the corridor, the pilot configuration has one lane of traffic in each direction and a two-way left-turn lane (TWLTL). As part of the pilot project, the City of Redwood City (City) committed to monitoring and reporting project results to the community and City Council specific to vehicle traffic, vehicle speed, and usage by people walking, riding bikes, and riding transit. Kimley- Horn was tasked to provide an independent review of the data and provide a summary of the results. Although the format of this report may be similar to the format of the Interim report, the data analysis and results were conducted independently. An evaluation plan was created to assess the effectiveness of the pilot project. The evaluation plan was developed with input from the community and was adopted by the City Council, as discussed later. City staff collected input on the evaluation plan from a variety of sources, including comments from the January 2015 City Council meeting, emails and letters to City staff, feedback from the City’s informal bicycle and pedestrian working group, and input via an online survey. The online survey determined that the top three priorities of the respondents were: improve safety, improve ease of crossing the street, and decrease traffic congestion. It should be noted that decreasing speeding was a close number four priority. 8.A. - Page 12