Comprehensive Pedestrian Sidewalk Inventory Plan (II)
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Project Update
Posted: February 2023
The project has been completed! To see the results, please select the "Take a Walk" tab at www.gosbcta.com/activesanbernardino and/or see SBCTA's Sidewalk Inventory page.
Posted: January 2023
Feedback from stakeholders and advisory group members has been incorporated into the final ePlans for each agency, as well as additional contextual data that can add value in understanding the built pedestrian landscape as it relates to sidewalks and curb ramps. The final ePlan was presented to the General Policy Committee in mid-December and the Board in January 2023.
Posted: September 2022
The project team has been soliciting feedback from stakeholders and advisory group members of the past 1-2 months. Feedback is currently being incorporated into the final ePlans for each agency, as well as additional contextual data that can add value in understanding the built pedestrian landscape as it relates to sidewalks and curb ramps.
Posted: May 2022
Sidewalk, curb ramp, and high resolution imagery feature data has been curated into a draft ePlan in the form of an Esri Story map and Web App Builder. The draft ePlan includes the following sections: • a broad overview of the project intent, • a sidewalk and curb ramp data snapshot which highlights distance and percent of sidewalk that meet or do not meet a specific ADA-related criteria, • ADA transition plan guidance and the steps that each agency needs to take to achieve a complete ADA transition plan, • a sample schedule for removing pedestrian barriers along facilities in the public right-of-way, • a section explaining the attributes contained within the sidewalk and curb ramp data, • and a data viewer where users can view, interact, and download features Additionally, supporting text and data will be added to the existing Active San Bernardino Open Data Application.
Posted: March 2022
Sidewalk data collection is wrapping up and a near final dataset has been consolidated for further review and analysis. This dataset is inclusive of a variety sidewalk- and ADA-related measurements and indices such as roughness, running slope, level change, a segment route accessibility index (RAI), pavement conditions, and a pavement index. The final dataset containing the existing high-resolution aerial imagery features have been received and is inclusive of bus shelter, truncated domes, tree canopy, roadway centerline, and traffic lines (turn lanes, through lanes, shoulders, planning strips, on-street bike lanes). The consultant and data collection teams are coordinating efforts to best use the collected data to conduct an ADA transition plan analysis aimed at providing recommendations to remediate existing barriers to pedestrian connectivity.
Posted: January 2022
Sidewalk data collection is still underway and has now moved on to the more rural communities within the County. Due to some COVID-related delays with the sidewalk data collection team, the completion date has been pushed back to March 2022. Additionally, the existing high-resolution aerial imagery features have been extracted through artificial intelligence and are currently being processed and reviewed for final submittal and approval.
Posted: November 2021
As requested at the 11/1/21 TTAC meeting, below is the contact information for the consultants hired to collect and help analyze ADA data should anyone care to purchase additional data outside the scope of this project.
- PathVu : Eric Sinagra, CEO & Co-founder, eric.sinagra@pathvu.com, or
- Bureau Veritas : Bryon Scott, ADAC, Lead Project Manager, ADA Coordinator, Bryon.Scott@BureauVeritas.com
Posted: September 2021
The sidewalk data collection is currently underway. Since beginning in the summer, the survey data collection team has collected over 300 miles of detailed sidewalk and curb ramp data within the project survey areas. The data collection process is documenting existing changes in level, horizontal openings, upheavals, or other pathway events that may be a barrier or potential hazard on the sidewalk. Curb ramp grades and cross slopes are measured, while barriers or lack of ramps are also being documented. The data collection will be completed by February 2022 followed by the sidewalk data analyses phase. Stay tuned for future project updates!
Program Overview
Phase I Recap
In 2018, SBCTA secured a Caltrans planning grant to develop a Comprehensive Pedestrian Sidewalk Connectivity Plan to assist regional and local agencies in active transportation planning, decision-making, and construction of priority sidewalk projects. The Phase I Plan was completed in early 2020, which cataloged approximately 17,000 miles of sidewalk highlighting sidewalk presence, width, and material throughout the county.
Need for Phase II
Throughout Phase I, the Advisory Group, the County, and several cities voiced how the data from Phase I was of interest to their local active transportation planning efforts, especially related to initiatives such as Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS), climate adaptation planning, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plans. As such, SBCTA recognized additional data features should be collected to support the local agencies in planning and implementing pedestrian improvements.
A grant application for Phase II was subsequently awarded to SBCTA under the Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning Program. This data will be added to the Phase I data set within the public-facing dashboard created in Phase I. The dashboard will display easy-to-understand data to provide broad access and improve the efficiency of data collection and management at the regional and city level. The project will also take advantage of economies of scale at the County level by creating a planning tool that captures consistent, countywide pedestrian infrastructure data and outlines a process for agencies to use for future pedestrian planning and priority infrastructure projects and grant applications.
Project Objectives
The overarching goal of the data collection project is to more easily and safely connect residents, workers, and students (especially vulnerable populations dependent upon walking/biking as their primary means of transportation) to jobs, schools, parks, community facilities, and commuter rail, via a comprehensive system of seamless sidewalk corridors. The planning tool will also help to facilitate improved public health, social equity, and provide other important community benefits. The primary objective is as follows:
Expand a countywide geographic inventory database to provide local and regional agencies with more accurate pedestrian infrastructure data to use for active transportation planning, policies, and construction of priority projects. This plan will be used to achieve the following sub-objectives:
A. Enhance multimodal neighborhood mobility by identifying existing and planned sidewalk systems, identifying gaps, and identifying how residents can better access businesses, retail centers, schools, parks, recreational facilities, and community services, through a seamless active transportation network;
A. Improve active transportation safety by identifying areas where no current sidewalks exist, and exploring linkages of residences, schools, and other activity centers via pedestrian corridors;
B. Improve “First/Last-Mile” transit connectivity to Transit Stations by increasing active transportation accessibility. This will be achieved by identifying existing barriers to walking or biking and exploring linkages that can connect existing corridors to rail stations and other transit hubs as identified by SBCTA in conjunction with the consultant and other stakeholders;
C. Foster livable and healthy communities and promote social equity by improving access to walking and bicycling modes of transportation to desired destinations, which builds off the set of existing plans that not only identified destinations already to implement changes for social equity, but also provide the framework to identify more destinations for future work in expanding such initiatives. These plans include the County’s Safe Routes to Schools, Pedestrian Points of Interest, and the Non-Motorized Transportation Plan, all of which adopt SBCTA’s “placemaking” strategy to use data so that planners can focus on providing people opportunities to achieve a healthier lifestyle and create a sense of community using pedestrian infrastructure.
Project Schedule
Proposed Survey Area
Please zoom in to see which sidewalks are being survey through this project
Phase I
For more information about Phase I, please see: SBCTA Developing a Comprehensive Pedestrian Sidewalk Inventory Plan - SBCTA (gosbcta.com)