Transportation

We're helping Caltrans and the San Diego Association of Governments with <b>complex environmental planning</b> associated with the North Coast Corridor project designed to improve rail and highway efficiencies along the Los Angeles-San Diego route. The program involves six jurisdictions and proposes to phase-in multiple projects over 40 years. We provided an environmental team to the San Diego Association of Governments for <b>biological services, wildlife corridor analysis, and land use analysis</b> of alignment alternatives for a proposed 11-mile light-rail extension to improve access to a region with growing employment and education resources. The Port of San Diego uses our environmental planners for <b>on-call CEQA/NEPA</b> services to meet mandates for projects on port-owned tidelands, submerged lands, and uplands around San Diego Bay. Our environmental planners prepared the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan for the Los Angeles/Ontario International Airport on behalf of the City of Ontario. A key deliverable was developing the project’s mitigation monitoring and reporting program for the <b>legally-defensible CEQA documentation.</b> Our biologists and native habitat experts turned an abandoned, derelict trailer park into a five-acre native riparian habitat as part of <b>a major off-site wetlands mitigation project</b> for construction of the North County Transit District's 22-mile Sprinter light-rail line from Oceanside to Escondido. The award-winning project included installing 3,200 native plants. A team of <b>Dudek biologists, native habitat experts and construction managers</b> helped the City of Carlsbad successfully complete the major expansion of a two-lane road into a six-lane crosstown arterial passing through sensitive natural resources. We provided the City of Desert Hot Springs with <b>engineering design to fast-track a road improvement project</b> to leverage available federal funds. Key design issues included incorporating existing facilities (driveways, water meters, and power poles) and making the improvements compatible with existing curb and gutters.

We provide environmental planning, permitting, associated technical studies and long-term environmental mitigation—often in partnership with large transportation engineering and construction firms—on a variety of projects, including highways, rail lines, ports and airports.

Our environmental documents address specialized approaches to avoid or minimize impacts to sensitive habitat and special-status wildlife resources that are often impacted by linear transportation projects. Through our established relationships with municipal, state and federal clients and resource agencies, we understand California’s complex permitting expectations and hurdles, and are skilled at developing tailored approaches to difficult projects.

Our engineering and construction management staff support our environmental team during the permitting process and provide site engineering and construction services on an as-needed, extension-of-staff basis to municipalities.

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