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<br />City of Santa Ana | First Street Multimodal Corridor <br />Technical Memorandum <br /> <br />50 <br /> <br />Providing a bus lane provides benefits to vehicular traffic and buses. Vehicles may enter the <br />bus lane to make a right turn at intersections . <br />This moves the decelerating vehicles into the bus lane and reduces the potential for rear end <br />crashes . With buses in a dedicated lane, there would be no queuing of vehicles behind <br />buses at bus stops . Vehicles maneuvering around stopped buses is also a potential cause of <br />rear-end and sideswipe cras hes that would be reduced with this option. Bus on-time <br />performance and delay would also improve. Coupled with bus priority, travel time for buses <br />along the corridor are forecast to improve significantly. This City has discussed with OCTA <br />options to increase frequency of bus service along the route if dedicated. Additional <br />discussion and analysis are needed to determine if expanded or more frequent service is <br />possible. <br />East Side Design Concepts <br />From Cabrillo Park Drive to Tustin Avenue, the City will be c onstructing new medians and <br />buffered bicycle lanes . This project will also reduce First Street from six lanes to four lanes . <br />While this will improve the bicycle amenities on this portion of the corridor compared to <br />existing conditions, feedback during community outreach meetings suggests that bicyclists <br />would prefer to be at sidewalk level as opposed to street level. Figure 29 provides the cross <br />section and the pedestrian and bicycle zone illustrations. <br />Figure 29. East Side Illustrations <br />