Agenda - City of Santa Monica

Community and the Disabilities Commission particularly noted the benefit of
these elements, while other stakeholders requested that the design be
further refined.
The Wyndham Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn), Sears and Santa Monica Place
representatives requested specific design details to ensure access to their
driveways, and PWP and City staff have responded with design elements to
optimize driveway access such as: bike box and s top bar striping, pedestrian
bollards, differentiated driveway pavement treatments, and a combination of bicycle
signal heads, vehicle signal heads, and pedestrian indications which will allow the
flexibility of signal operations at the Colorado/Main/2 nd Street intersection. There
was a specific request for traffic analysis to ensure that the proposed one-way
vehicle design did not impact the efficiency of vehicle traffic. The traffic study found
that due to the simplification of intersection movements, traffic flow was improved.
Some trips dispersed to parallel streets north and south, including the new Olympic
Drive extension between Main Street and Ocean Avenue, but were sufficiently
diversified so as not to create impacts.
Funding: The street cross section, including both sides of Colorado and the Main to
Second Street realignment, is essential to the remaining design components, and is
therefore recommended as part of the core project.
B. Cycle Track: The previous version reviewed by Council explored bicycle facility
options to connect the areas between Ocean Avenue and the Pier to the Expo
Station, and included alternatives on both sides of the street and a separated bike
facility (“cycle track”) located adjacent to the south curb. Working closely with
Santa Monica Spoke and City staff, P WP is designing the City’s first separated
cycle track based on staff and stakeholder input and industry best practices.
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