 Mission Bay Development Project |
San Francisco, CA |
Mission Bay is the largest urban infill development project (303
acres) in the City of San Francisco. It was previously a South
Pacific Railroad Company’s railyard. The San Francisco Planning
Department has approved a master plan developed by Catellus Corporation,
which will turn this area into a new mix-use community with over
6,000 housing units, 9.7 million square feet of development. This
area has convenient freeway access and transit services (Caltrain
commuter rail services, two light rail lines and several MUNI
bus lines. It is also adjacent to the PacBell Park, the home for
the San Francisco Giants baseball team.
Catellus Corporation hired CHS as the traffic engineer for the
Mission Bay roadway and infrastructure design project. CHS' responsibilities
include signal design (16 in total), signing and pavement delineation
design (23 city blocks), and preparation of traffic control plans.
Most of the traffic signals for this project are located along
Third and Fourth Streets, which are the routes for the MUNI Third
Street LRT project. CHS coordinated with MUNI and the San Francisco
Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT) on signal designs, intersection
geometries, and a signal priority system for MUNI LRT vehicles.
CHS successfully obtained design approvals from MUNI and DPT on
the 11 intersections along both of these streets. CHS also prepared
signal design for a complicated at-grade railroad crossing (7th
and 16th Streets), and several signal designs at the freeway ramp
junctions.
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