“She’s the squeaky wheel that wants to get things done,” Matt Bigler, an anchor and reporter at KCBS Radio, said of Quittel. RELATED: A homeless encampment crowded an S.F. But she is the only one who contacted a local radio journalist about the traffic safety issue, and got results. She believes she’s not the only one who’s been contacting the state transportation agency about the roadway hazard. Quittel says she contacted various departments of Caltrans 75 times in the past eight months, by email and phone, demanding a cleanup and recommending fencing to keep rolling objects at bay.
And you’re going to kill yourself … or another person.” “I thought, some poor sucker, maybe a senior like myself, is going to drive through that, and that tarp is going to blow free. “That really was the crowning point of what I felt was becoming more dangerous,” said Fran Quittel, a Jewish resident of Emeryville. In the spring, an unmoored tarp appeared at the entrance to the underpass, blowing in the wind, inches from passing vehicles. A homeless encampment sits along the interchange, which in recent months has been filling up with abandoned shopping carts and orange-colored bins that threaten to roll down a slope and into traffic.
During our yearly review with Caltrans management, Kleinfelder was informed that we were “setting the standard” that Caltrans expects from consultants.If you’ve ever taken the Ashby Avenue exit off I-80 in Berkeley, you have seen the filth piled along the east and west sides of the interchange, which is overrun with garbage and visible human waste. Kleinfelder is currently providing rapid response to challenging staffing and scheduling demands-staffing the projects with excellent field personnel specifically suited to the needs of any given project. Additionally, our team is very familiar with the project site(s) and challenges related to design-sequencing projects. Kleinfelder’s expert engineers and inspectors are executing a thorough review of all plan specifications and producing detailed documentation of the work in the form of daily diaries, quantity sheet, contract change orders, responses to Requests for Information, and letters to the contractor. This contract requires proactive inspection of special provisions and plans well in advance of construction activities coordination with the project contractor, inspection of the work at the earliest possible stages and the capacity to look ahead for potential changes or conflicts when comparing field conditions to plan specifications. Our team has worked on more than 100 projects throughout Caltrans District 11, including the $110 million I-5/805 Merge Widening the $270 million I-15 Managed Lanes (Units 1-5) the $139 million SR-125/54 Gap and Connector, the $32 million SR-7 project and the I-5/Lomas Santa Fe Interchange and Auxiliary Lanes projects. Kleinfelder is currently augmenting the Caltrans District 11 Construction Division with 31 individuals.
Kleinfelder was selected for the third consecutive time to serve as the prime consultant for the Caltrans District 11 On-Call Construction Management contract.