 Just to confirm everyone can see my screen. Yes, yes, sir. We can thank. All right. Well, good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining this call. This is the call for the community design meeting for the intersection improvements of North Term Parkway at North Beach Street. This project is located in Council District Number 4. At this time, is there any representatives from the Council District? I believe there was earlier. I do apologize. I'm here to take notes either way. I'm with Councilman Carlos Flores District 2. But in any case, we'll take notes and we'll share them with the Council District Appropriate 2. And I have no notes from the Councilman and we thank you staff for being here and I'll leave it to Project Manager Ivan Lopez. Thank you and we'll clarify if it is Council District Ward 2. So, what any further communication, miscommunication. But yes, so the city of Fort Worth project number is 103309. My name is Ivan Lopez. I am the project manager with the city of Fort Worth for this project. And the project engineers are Freeds and Nichols. We do have 2 representatives from the project engineers here on the call today. So, at the end of the presentation, if anyone has any specific questions regarding the design, they'll be more than happy to help answer those. The agenda for today's meeting is as follows. We'll start off with a little bit of the project background and the goals of the project. We'll show the existing layout of the intersection today. And then go into what the proposed design is and how it'll change the intersection. We'll go over the project tool and then I'll share the project contact information. And then at the end, we'll open it up for questions. So, the project background and objectives follow the 2022 city of Fort Worth bond program. And a couple of the objectives we do hope to accomplish with this project is mainly to improve the capacity of the existing intersection. Today is it's a pretty busy intersection. And so there are a couple of ways that we can improve that. One of them being mainly improving the turning movements. And we will be doing this by the addition of dedicated left and right turn lanes on each leg of the intersection. If somebody could please meet themselves, everyone, just please make sure that they're muted. Thank you. So the project location, we are talking to the intersection of Tarrant Parkway and Beach Street that is on the north side of Fort Worth and on the side of I-35. Believe there's a Walmart on the northeast corner, a chase back on the northwest corner, CVS, and I can't remember what the gas station on the southeastern corner. I'm going to try to mute a couple of people. Chad, if you could please hand me one. Thank you. Yes, sir. So the existing intersection is as today looks as shown. There are going west and eastbound. There are two through lanes in each direction with one turn lane, one left turn lane, and one right turn lane. Going north and south, you do have three through lanes and a turn lane. And so this slide shows the improvements we are proposing at the intersection. The hatches shown in black are areas where we are proposing additional pavement or reconstruction of the existing medians. I will be going into more detail for each leg with the following slides. We are looking at North Tarrant Parkway. This is if you are going eastbound. The improvements we are proposing are on the median in the middle of the intersection. We are going to be cutting into that to allow for an additional left turn. So there will be 11 going eastbound along Tarrant Parkway. Additionally, as you approach the intersection, if you are going southbound, we will be cutting into that existing curb. And we will be introducing a median, which will allow right turn lane. And what this, what we hope to accomplish with this design, previously before this, as you were approaching the intersection, if you wanted to make your right turn, you had to come to a complete stop at the intersection. With new design, we do have more of a yield condition. And then if there is room to go, you will be able to access the through lane more effectively than just waiting once you come to a complete stop. This segment of the median will also kind of allow for more storage of the turn lane. So we do hope that this kind of helps expedite the amount of turning movements going southbound. Going westbound along North Tarrant Parkway. We are doing similar improvements. We will be cutting into the existing Parkway on the north side of the road to allow for a longer right turn lane. We will be introducing the fork chop as you approach the intersection to allow for that channelized right turn movement that I just explained. With that, we will be redoing the driveway, the Walmart driveway. And then along the southern portion of the road, we will be cutting into that existing median pretty significantly to allow for dual left turn lanes going southbound. By doing so, we will be striping off one of the existing lanes. We will be striping it off. I will go back to the slide just to kind of prove a point. Going to the westbound, hopefully y'all can see my mouse. There are only two receiving through lanes. So in order to continue that, we are going to have to stripe off one lane to allow those two lanes to continue forward and then having two dual left going southbound. Now we're looking north and south along Beach Street. So John chose going northbound. Once again, we will be cutting into that existing median to allow for an additional left turn lane. So going northbound on Beach, there will be two dual lefts. Today there already does exist a channelized right turn lane. So all we'll be doing in that area is expanding the median a little bit more for pedestrian access and then just kind of redoing that curb with it. The image on the right, going southbound along the street. Similarly, we'll be cutting into the median to allow for dual left turn lanes. And then on this side, we will be cutting into the parkway going westbound pretty significantly in order to accommodate that channelized right turn lane. And we will be introducing a median in that corner as well. I'll go back to the overall layout as one more time. Apologies if it's a little hard to see, but we will be traffic signals. This will still be a signalized intersection. We will be relocating the traffic signals to different locations. Additionally, with all these improvements, we will be redoing all pavement markings, the intersection, approximately 300 to 400 feet in each direction. That will include all the crosswalks, all the arrows, all the lane designation. So the project schedule is as follows. Currently, we are still in the design phase. This is a community design meeting to get input from the community. This is the first of two that plan on having. The second one will probably take place in about two to three months. Right away will be required for this project primarily on the southwestern corner. And we do anticipate being able to acquire and complete that acquisition by the end of the year. Along this corridor, there are plenty of franchise utilities, primarily a lot of overhead electric poles and lines. We are working with Encore to get some of those relocated so that coordination is ongoing. Once the design is complete and we are ready to go to construction, we will be having a pre-construction public meeting. We do anticipate that being in May of next year. And a couple months after that, we do estimate to be able to start construction August of 2024. Currently, we have estimated a duration of construction for about 15 to 18 months. But that is subject to change depending on material availability and just the overall status of the market. And we do finally have an estimated construction cost of just under $3 million. On the screen is the project contact information for the project. As mentioned previously, my name is Ivan Lopez. I'm the project manager with the City of Fort Worth for the project. On the screen is my contact information if you wish to reach out to me regarding anything regarding the project. And if you have any questions about the design or anything like that, Todd Buckingham, his information is on the screen. He's the project engineer with Frieza and Nichols. And just a quick plug for the service request, the My Fort Worth app. This is a great tool for citizens to give input on their city, primarily the intersections or any other projects that they are of interest. You can download the app. They have it on the Apple and Google stores. Or you can text that number on the screen, call the call center, or just go to the website and use the chat box. So that's the end of the presentation. We will now open it up for questions. I will be going back to the overall slide. And if anyone has any questions, we can talk about any of the different aspects of the project. Hey, Ivan, I have one question if I could jump in. This is Laura. Yes. Hi, everyone. I'm communications with TPW and glad to support Ivan tonight. I was just curious if anyone's on from the North Fort Worth Alliance. Okay. And I don't think so. Thank you. Actually, we had someone in the chat say, yes, I'm here from that group. It's Kayla, I believe is who chatted. Let me make sure. Yes. Kayla said she is. So go ahead, Laura. Are we just taking a poll? I am just saying hi. Nice to meet you virtually. Okay. You're just taking a poll. Okay. We want to be sure we're keeping you all looped in and giving you enough notice. So I'm going to do that. We made the mistake of not giving them enough time for a previous public meeting. So it looks like we did it correctly this time. Thank you, Laura. We do have a question in the chat. Ivan, can you hear me? Yes, I can. The question is, here's the question. The area that is strapped off on Westbound Terrant by the Walmart entrance. Is that just paint straps where you strap off the lane? Yes, that is correct. It will be, correct me if I'm wrong, Todd. Will that be white or yellow? I believe it will be yellow, right? Yeah, it'll be white strapped off. Sorry, yes, white. Yeah, that'll separate the through lanes from the dual left turn. That answer the question? I think so. Folks can also, well, the chat, I guess, is best. I was about to say, I'm not sure if everyone has been muted or if they would like to speak or if they would just like to chat, but the chat's working well, I guess. I believe we got another one or a comment. Yes, the next comment is from the same person. It says we get a lot of congestion there because people try to come out of Walmart to the left turn lanes. Yes, they do because I'm one of those people. I live up here. Yeah, so hopefully with this, all these improvements, it'll kind of guide people a little bit more and a lot, additionally for those left turning movement, by providing all these dual lefts, hopefully it kind of reduces the amount of queuing that occurs along the streets today. That's right. And I just want to say that, yes, that is strapping. So it's no physical barrier to keep people from getting into those left turn lanes from that driveway. I just wanted to point that out if that's what that person was sort of getting at. Here's another question in the chat. This is from Richard. Will the lights be timed longer to allow more flow? Probably our transportation management for that question. I'm not quite sure on that. I don't know if Aziz or Sagar are on the call. Yeah, the intention is to have more capacity, meaning adding more capacity. So we will of course try to optimize the green for the left turn movements or other movements as well. So you can optimize the green for all movements and this will be run on the sensor, traffic sensor. Got it. So there will be some changes to the timing. A follow-up he says currently or in the future. So after the improvement, yeah, we're going to revise or adjust the timing based on the name. Yeah. So the timing will be adjusted after the project is built based on the traffic out there. Aziz, for some reason I have it in my mind that y'all go out and adjust timing and intersections on sort of an interval around the city. How often do y'all do that? Yes, regularly. Transportation management have a program, annual retiming program. Part of that, we time one third of the traffic signal of the city annually. Amazing. Yeah, that is our goal. So it'll be timed to optimize the intersection when it's built and then it sounds like every three years or so, yeah, it'll be adjusted. Perfect. Or if there's like a citizen concern or something, so we can go out again for addressing the timing. Other than that, a regular base routinely will go like every three years. But there's a kind of any complaint, we're going to go right away. Yeah, exactly. We can see that. Okay. That's great. So another question is from Neil in the chat. Here's his question. Are the existing lanes going to be removed and replaced? Or will we just have new lanes added? Yes. So on this image on the screen, this is the overall project design. So that are hatched are areas where we are proposing new pavement or modifications to the existing pavement. All the other existing lanes will remain as is. But for the most part, all the lanes will remain. There's just a portion on the southeastern corner. We are kind of redoing some of all that corner right there. But other than that, majority of the existing lanes will remain. Hey, Ivan, I'm going to jump off for another public meeting now. If you all need me, let me know. All right. Thank you, Laura. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks, Kayla. Good night. We have any additional questions? I don't see any other questions in the chat right now yet. Well, Ivan, I really appreciate you. I think you did a great job explaining the improvements that are being proposed. So good job and to the team for answering these questions. It's been great. We're in no hurry to end this meeting or jump off the call. We're here for everybody. But to answer questions, but I don't see any additional questions right now, Ivan, in the chat. Oh, here's one. This is Kayla. She said, is the dip on North Terrant going to be fixed? Are we aware of that dip? I am not. Todd, do you know? Going towards Fossil Ridge High School. I'm trying to look it up in Google Maps right now. But the limits of this project are just mainly along this intersection. Giver, take 300, 400 feet. Going in a new direction from the intersection. So if that does fall outside of that, that unfortunately will not be part of this project. Yeah, it looks like it's further to the west. Too far to the west. Chad, is that something that they can use as a service request for? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I was just about to say that. Thank you. Don't you have that information on your last slide? Yes, I do. So, Kayla, we have the, Ivan's going to show you how to download the app. And our folks are really good at responding to the app. So this is a request you could put in the app if you'd like to report this dip in the lanes. And then Neil has a comment he put in the chat. He says, we will hate the interruption for a bit. I know, I know exactly what you mean, but the result will be worth it. It looks great. Thanks. So Neil, thank you so much for, you know, the positive input like that. We really appreciate it. Yeah, and I'll just say one last thing. This, we are meeting is being recorded. So this meeting will be uploaded to the city website in the project, the project page. And then additionally, as we just mentioned, if you have any questions or anything, here's the contact information one more time. You can reach out to me or to Todd for any questions you may have, and we'll do our best to answer them or find someone who can answer them. Okay. Does anyone else on the call or on the phone or in the meeting have any other questions? Okay. I have a question. Well, since the project is only going to go about 400 feet, I work at Walgreens. So I was just wondering, is the entrance over to Walgreens going to be better? It's on North Tarrant. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is the Walgreens on the southwest corner of the intersection? Is it this red building right here? Walgreens is on the south southeast, is the Walgreens. This one? Yes. Which one? This one or the other one? Southeast, yes. Where that word existing right of way is, according to Google maps, that's the Walgreens. There's a CVS on the other corner southwest. Yeah, they're usually always across from each other somehow, but yes. That driveway, as you can see, doesn't have any pavement improvements associated with it. There will be some striping modifications done in front of it. So I believe access will be tried to maintain, will be tried to be maintained at that driveway at all times. So people should still be able to use that. Okay, thank you. Are there any more questions? Thank you for all those who joined the call and participated. Makes it a lot easier to pass the time on these meetings. So I appreciate everyone's cooperation and participation. Okay. Chris Archer has one comment that says, looks like a great project. Thanks for the community outreach. Thank you, Chris. We really appreciate it. And I guess we can go ahead and end, Ivan, if there's no other questions. And Ivan, again, I think you did a great job. And thanks Aziz and Sagar for joining and for Adam and Todd. Thank you so much. Thank you all. Everyone have a good night. Thanks, Ivan. Good night.