Riverside council awards $7.7 million street paving and downtown bollard contract, advances Third Street underpass
Onyx Paving Company won the Aug. 25 contract to rehabilitate sections of five major streets and install 132 bollards downtown. The council also hired a construction manager for the Third Street rail underpass.
The Riverside City Council voted unanimously Aug. 25 to award a $7,677,000 construction contract to Onyx Paving Company Inc. of Yorba Linda for street repairs across the city and pedestrian bollards downtown.
Councilmember Falcone made the motion and Councilmember Conder seconded it, according to the meeting minutes. No one from the public spoke on the item.
The contract runs 130 working days from the start date in the city's notice to proceed.
What gets paved
A Public Works staff report says the project will rehabilitate 3.7 miles of arterial and collector streets:
- Southbound Day Street, between the 60 Freeway ramp and Eucalyptus Avenue
- Brockton Avenue, between Indiana and Arlington avenues
- Wood Road, between Van Buren Boulevard and John F. Kennedy Drive
- La Sierra Avenue, between Gramercy Place and Cypress Avenue
- Washington Street, between Indiana and Victoria avenues
Another 2.7 miles of smaller streets in four neighborhoods will be resurfaced.
The work also includes 132 pedestrian safety bollards in the downtown area, 26 edge-lit stop signs, seven speed feedback signs that run on solar power and a curb extension pilot using pavement markings.
Four companies bid. Onyx was lowest, below the engineer's estimate of $8,015,587.40, the report says. The total project budget, with design, inspection and contingencies, is $8.2 million.
Most of the money comes from the state's SB 1 road repair account. The council also appropriated $755,050 out of Measure A fund balance for the bollards.
Third Street underpass
On the consent calendar, the council approved a $4,516,980.16 agreement with DCCM Infrastructure Inc. of Riverside to manage and inspect construction of the Third Street Grade Separation, plus a 10% change-order allowance.
The project will lower Third Street from Vine Street to Park Avenue and build a bridge to carry BNSF trains over it, a staff report says. Commerce Street will be realigned.
The report says DCCM ranked first among six proposers after interviews and cut its price from $5,995,625.37 during negotiations.
The council also added $473,625 to the contract of HDR Engineering Inc., the project's designer, bringing it to $3,282,267.56, and accepted $4,285,561 more in regional Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee funding, for a total of $18,035,561 from that source.
Design and right-of-way purchases are finished, according to the report. It says construction is expected to begin in January 2027 and take two years.
Tree contract
The consent calendar also included a $9,174,765 agreement with West Coast Arborists Inc. of Anaheim for citywide tree maintenance from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2029, the minutes show.