The full scope of services is to be negotiated, and some responsibilities of the Proposer may be shifted in whole or in part to the City to address budget constraints, best utilize the Proposer’s resources, and maintain overall project effectiveness. The final scope of work, including deliverables for each subsequent task will be developed in Task 1 following project kick-off meetings. Meetings may be attended virtually or in-person. The City is looking for a qualified Firm to develop Active Transportation Best Management Practices and Design Standards as part of the Safe Streets 4 All Supplemental Planning grant from USDOT. This includes developing a City specific Bikeways Design Manual, updating the City’s Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, and creating a strategy and implementation plan for constructing bicycle infrastructure. The City of Spokane Bikeway Design Manual will create design standards and standard plans for local adoption and use by City staff and contractors in the planning, design and construction of projects identified through the Six Year Comprehensive Street Program, Comprehensive Plan, Regional Transportation Plans, and other bicycle infrastructure design efforts. This document will include locally adopted standards for Protected Bike Lanes, Intersection Designs, Bikeway-Transit Stop Integration, Neighborhood Greenway/Bicycle Boulevard Intersection Design and Mid-Block Treatments, Trail/Shared Use Path Crossings, and more as necessary. Additionally, the bikeway design manual should include strategies for constructing and maintaining the recommended bicycle facility types. The Comprehensive Safety Action Plan Update includes necessary updates to the comprehensive safety action plan such as additional safety analysis and expanded data collection and evaluation using integrated data, follow-up stakeholder engagement and collaboration, updating plan components required from an action plan, and consolidation of key safety and equity elements in various plans including the City of Spokane’s Comprehensive Plan, Bike Master Plan, Downtown Plan, and regional plans such as the Spokane Regional Transportation Council’s Horizon 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan. The Comprehensive Safety Action Plan update should include a Strategy and Implementation Plan that will create process for prioritizing projects for future implementation based on targeted assessments of safety, connectivity, and health equity conditions.
