The Santa Rosa Highway 101 bicycle and pedestrian crossing will create a safe active transportation route over US 101, closing an important gap in the local and regional transportation network and providing many new direct connections, such as between SMART and the Santa Rosa Junior College. Construction is expected to begin this summer.

SGA led teams for the Feasibility Study and PID phases and worked in partnership with the same team we selected for Rohnert Park—BKF, BCA, DJP&A, W-Trans, and PARIKH—for the PA&ED and PS&E phases. SGA’s work included facilitating extensive engagement with community members, city staff, advocacy groups, SMART, Santa Rosa Junior College, private property owners, and Caltrans. 

The project site is highly constrained geometrically by existing development, major utilities, and heritage trees. The alignment ultimately selected, following years-long consideration of multiple alternative locations and alignments, is possible due to the acquisition of private property and major redevelopment of a corner of the SRJC campus. 

The tight geometric constraints dictated a thin deck structure depth, while important freeway views indicated high visual transparency for the bridge architecture. The cable-stayed structure type selected by the city for these reasons features a single 120’ steel pylon located on the north side of the deck in order to save heritage trees along Elliott Avenue and provide for fire lane clearance in the new SRJC housing parking lot.