Broadway Expansion

The Broadway overpass expansion is picking up steam from the looks of things.  We noted the original demolition of the 76 station almost a year ago here and the building on the west side corner here.  The is plenty of dirt piled up on the east side and the west side lane closure and work in the breakdown lane has accelerated through the holiday season.

You can read up on the project on the city web site here, but here is the bottom line

The new interchange will be a seven-lane Broadway overcrossing approximately 170 feet to the north of the existing four-lane structure. Broadway will be realigned to extend straight across US-101 from the Broadway/Rollins Road intersection on the west to Bayshore Highway on the east. The northern terminus of Airport Boulevard would be moved approximately 100 feet to the north to meet the new overcrossing. The existing on- and off-ramps would be replaced. The project would retain the existing pedestrian overcrossing just south of Broadway and provide additional pedestrian and bicycle improvements at the new interchange itself. The total length of the project is 0.76 mile (from mile post 16.30 to 17.06).

I'm still looking for a drawing that would be worth the 1,000 words on the project. 

Comments

[pat giorni]

pdf page 29....
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/documents/101_broadway_interch/ea_235840_101bdwy_fed_1_front_matter_thru_chapter_6.pdf

and
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/photography/images/14_11462d/

photo 042

[Burlingamer]

Funny thing is, the pdf at the first link is over 300 pages long. Might as well be a hundred thousand pages. Who has the time these days?

The second link requires Flash.

Hence the author said he was still looking.

[pat giorni]

The picture in the 1st link is on pdf page 29 which is a 2 second scroll down.

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/projects/broadwayrecon/index.htm shouldn't need Flash

[pat giorni]

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/projects/broadwayrecon/docs/map.pdf

[Bruce Dickinson]

Maybe Bruce Dickinson needs a new prescription for my glasses, but I would be remiss if I didn't say that it doesn't look like this overpass is passing over/under the Broadway railroad tracks? If it isn't, then what exactly is being accomplished here, as that is the real bottleneck in my opinion?!?

[Cha-Ching]

Bruce,

The purpose of this $75M+ project was to replace the former overpass, which received an "F" grade of resiliency.

Keighran pitched it as if hotel developers were holding off on more hotel construction because they didn't like the "F" grade. Who made this assessment? Were they encouraged?

But, she did her job, get government funding (tax dollars) directed towards your community and generate new construction jobs for the Unions that she admittted to getting paid to represent the interests of.

The Broadway railroad intersection will have to be updated...Caltrain wants to close down many of the other railroad intersections (like Peninsula) which will funnel a ton of traffic down California and through Broadway...perfect if you own a bunch of commercial property on Broadway or California. Cha-Ching.

[hillsider]

Did anyone see the photos of the flooded underpass in San Bruno during the last storm? I'm sure it will be totally forgotten by Caltrans and Caltrain when the time comes to dig in Buringame.

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You would think that this long overdue project would/should have been planned around HSR passing through Broadway.

[Bruce Dickinson]

HSR, SSR, Electric R, SuperCaltrain, what have you, trains going by across Broadway are the reason for the bottleneck. I get the seismic and safety issues, but Bruce Dickinson is befuddled, yes, perplexed on how the very agency which has erotic dreams about proper traffic flow doesn't even consider one of the key issues, namely trains stopping traffic all the time, into its proposal or at least an effort of attempting to address this. I know different rights of way are involved, but therein lies the problem. Every agency is focused on their piece of the puzzle, without considering what the puzzle will look like. In other words, there is no communication or holistic planning as it were, of the totality of the picture.

About the only flow this improves is the flow to El Torito and probably a few other lousy restaurants, but anyone who thinks that this will help hotel occupancy just got sold a bridge, literally! Let Bruce Dickinson remind you the best flow of anything related to El Torito is to just forget about eating it and throw it straight down the toilet instead! That my friends, is a prescription that may actually be better for the people of Burlingame than by something coming from Cal-Trans. You can take that advice right to the bank!

[David]

Judging by the pdf that Pat Giorni posted, it looks like this is going to be like the Peninsula Ave. overpass - more stoplights and thus more time to get on and off 101. Traveling NB, I now use the Dore Ave exit a lot more than I used to. Can't help but wonder what unintended traffic flows will result from this project.

[Joanne]

I always use Dore as well for the same reasons mentioned. Guess more bells and whistles from Caltrans.

[Joe]

The DJ has a general overview of the project here

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/articles/lnews/2015-02-19/construction-underway-at-broadway-overpass-new-configuration-is-expected-to-make-road-less-confusing-and-easier-to-navigate/1776425138663.html

To me the interesting news is about the metering lights (very LA, but probably necessary):

Workers rebuilt the overpass in 1971, and seismically retrofitted it in the 1980s, but many local residents felt navigating the overpass can be awkward.

There will be new metering installed at the off ramps feeding onto Highway 101, as part of the project.

Nearly 23,000 vehicles cross Broadway every day and nearly 225,000 are on the interchange daily. The total length of the project is about three-quarters of a mile long.

Caltrans spokeswoman Gidget Navarro said in an email the project is roughly 15 percent completed, and that there have been no major delays since work began.

The project is slated to be completed in 2017, as long as weather permits, said Navarro.