Wilshire Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit

City of Los Angeles

Project Description

ADVANTEC as a member of the PSOMAS project design team, prepared plans, specifications and engineer’s estimates for signing, striping and traffic signal modifications along the project corridors. The limits of the project were Western Avenue to San Vicente Boulevard (3.6 miles) and San Vicente Boulevard/Federal Avenue to Barrington Avenue (0.15 miles).  Work encompassed thirty-three signalized intersections along Wilshire Boulevard, 3 ¾ miles of signing and striping on a major arterial highway and project coordination with Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering and the METRO Westside Subway design team. The plans were designed to include new 2070 traffic signal controllers and the installation of special loop detectors (Metro loop detectors) for Metro’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System.