 City of Fort Worth project. I'm the project manager for this project, the construction of North Riverside Drive between Shiver Road and North Tarrant Parkway. We normally do this in person, except for, of course, the pandemic that we've all been enduring so, but I'll try to make this the next best thing to being in person. Just a couple of housekeeping things, and then I want to make a couple of introductions. If you could hold your questions, in order to make this presentation as clear as I can, because I get distracted very easily, so if you can hold your questions to the end, we'll have a question and answer session then. If you would like, you can use the chat function and type your questions as we go. That way, we can all keep up current and my colleagues are going to be monitoring the questions and we'll address them at the end as well. The formal presentation is going to be a short PowerPoint. It's not very long, so your questions, we'll get to your questions very quickly. Couple other things first is just, again, it would help if you could mute your microphone, just to reduce the background noise. So the connection seems pretty stable, so that's a great thing. And then during the Q&A, you can unmute yourself and ask questions. I noticed that tonight joining us are Council District Four Director Alicia Ortiz and Council Member Moon, Cary Moon, and I'll ask if either of you would like to say a few words up front. You are doing fine. I know we've got a good group attending and listening in, and this North Riverside project is important to a great Northwest arterial that we are anxious to get finished. We completed the first section there just south of North Terrant, so looking forward to getting this section north of North Terrant improved and appreciate the folks attending. Thank you. Also tonight, helping me tonight are the lead designer for the project, the lead design engineer, Casey Stevenson is a professional engineer from Peloton Land Solutions, consultant here in Fort Worth, and also Raul Lopez, he's the program manager for arterials in transportation and public works. And last but not least is Jeff Allen. He's transportation and public works communications specialist. I wanna make sure everybody understands this is being recorded. So I think Jeff mentioned that earlier. I'm sorry I didn't mention it up front, but we are recording this and it will be posted on the website. Sorry, I'm having a little technical problem, but I got it here. Okay, so tonight we're just gonna provide as much information as we can in a reasonable amount of time about the scope of this project and update you in a little bit on the schedule. Kinda give you a heads up about what to expect with the upcoming construction and provide you with the necessary contact information for you to get questions answered as we move forward. So the agenda, what I'd like to cover tonight, I'll describe the project scope from the higher level and then we'll kinda zoom in on some of the key details of the project. And then we'll discuss the funding and the schedule, the bid phase results. And then again, I'll share my contact information with you and try to answer any questions that you're gonna have about this project. So the goal of this project is to, again, to improve the capacity and efficiency along the North Riverside Corridor by improving the roadway along the project limits to four lane divided right roadway. The project limits are Shiver Road roundabout on the North End and it's gonna extend to just south of the North Turn Parkway intersection where we will connect with the previously accomplished work south of North Tarrant on North Riverside. So that will complete the corridor, so to speak. The approximate length of the new roadway sections about 3,000 feet. And so it's a little bit over a half a mile of, and it'll be standard thoroughfare cross section, standard city of Fort Worth cross section. The intersection at North Tarrant will be upgraded with new signals and left turn lanes and signal protected accessible crosswalks. Small section of North Tarrant approaches are gonna be upgraded to accommodate the new left turn configuration. But the extensive lengths of North Tarrant are not included in this project. Just as an aside, the intersection was first considered as a candidate for a roundabout, but after a lot of study and traffic projections at the end, signalized intersection was the best option at this location and that's what we're gonna provide here. The project is funded primarily by contributions from local developments in the area and they benefit of course from good durable roads and the reduction of congestion. Impact fee assessments have also been applied to this project to offset the impacts of the additional users. The segment of the North Riverside is the final phase of the improvement of this corridor is of course you've experienced the recent construction south of North Tarrant. Once complete, the corridor will allow more efficient movement and comfortable travel especially for pedestrians and cycling additionally for pedestrians and cyclists as well. Increase in safety at the intersection is also a major benefit that everybody should notice pretty quickly here once we get it going here. The slide here is kind of an overview a higher level look at the entire project. The red lines, let me see if I can show you. The red lines, sorry, represent the approximate limits of the project. North is to the right of the page so your Shiver roundabout is here, Shiver Road and the intersection with North Tarrant, here's North Tarrant, here's the police facility here on the west side of North Riverside. Riverside villas are in here. Just kind of an overview to orient us a little bit. If I go in a little bit closer, we can see a schematic of the roadway portion. This is the four lane divided roadway that we're going to build. Again, Shiver Road is to the right of the page here. West is to the top, so this is the police station here. The divided roadway will accommodate left turn lanes so that they won't delay the through traffic. So we'll have two through lanes each direction. There's heading northbound, I'm sorry, heading southbound, which is this direction. There's going to be two left turn lanes, one into the villas here and one into the church, Lutheran church here. And again, heading northbound, there'll be this left turn lane into the police facility. So this is about a half mile, as I said. Might be easier to visualize the cross section if I, on the next slide. So this is the detailed cross section of the roadway. North Riverside is going to be a four lane divided roadway with a shared use trail on each side. The right-of-way standard is 110 feet total, the city right-of-way. The roadway section is 23 feet from the back of curb. So the curbs are six inches. So each lane is 11 feet. So there's 22 feet of roadway there in each direction. 10-foot wide trails, as I mentioned, for cycling and pedestrians. There's a median 15-foot meet, and it's going to be grassy. And then, except where there's a left turn lane. And so there'll be variable widths on either side, but it's symmetrical about the center line of the median generally, except for if it varies slightly in the right-of-way. That's kind of esoteric, but here we, anyway. And the roadway concrete is, it's a concrete roadway, which is a high-quality roadway, high-quality concrete on top of a stabilized subgrade. And this kind of roadway yields a good long life, especially with very good quality control over the materials and the construction, which we expect to have during this project should last a good long time. Here's another segment of the project, which is the intersection. So in this view, North Riverside runs vertically. So North Tarrant is in the east-west on your, North is to the top of the page on this view. The large medians that exist now on North Tarrant kind of make left turns kind of cumbersome and a little bit more difficult in operation for an efficiency of the intersection. So the left turn lanes from North Tarrant are going to be caught into the median in both directions, and it gives better visibility for oncoming traffic for left turners. And it just makes the time and the intersection much less than you would if you came from well on the other side of the whole entire median. So it improves the operation of the intersection and the safety. There's going to be dedicated right turn lanes on all four corners. The crosswalks and the curb ramps are going to be in accordance with, of course, the American Disabilities Guidelines and they'll be much easier to use and safer safe for the pedestrians. And of course, we're going to provide access for local businesses and we'll work very hard during the construction to minimize any impacts to the businesses during the construction. So it's a very high priority for everybody in the construction industry. It's pretty much our, what makes us an engineer. So anyway, that's the intersection. Coming to this project milestones and the schedule, we've completed the design efforts and procured a contractor. The contract has gone through the city's legal and financial vetting and the contract has been awarded. The right of way is acquired for the project. However, there's just lingering utility relocations that are being finalized now. We're working through the, and we expect those to be cleared by May about four weeks or so, May into May. So that will be the final hurdle that will allow us to go full bore into this. The next steps for us will be a kickoff meeting with the contractor that's going to proceed the start of construction. The construction's contract is 14 months of duration. Again, we try to do the best we can and beat that and try to, our substantial completion, try to accelerate that as much as possible. So, but the worst case is that we expect that substantial completion to be done in August of 2022. But again, we're gonna try to do everything we can to provide it as soon as possible. So this shows some of the bid phase results. We opened the bids in November. And again, there's a legal, we make sure that the bids meet the legal requirements. And that took a little time, it takes a little time, but the low bidder was McMahon Construction from Grand Prairie. I believe there's a representative on here tonight. And the bid was responsive to all the requirements that we have. So they have a very significant experience with the city of Fort Worth. And actually they are the contractor that are completing the work on the segment of the North Riverside Drive that's south of North Tarrant. So they're very familiar with the area and hope we can gain some efficiencies there. So, I'll do it with briefs. We're excited, I'm excited to move from design into construction on this project. And my contact information is there. Should you have additional questions that we don't get to tonight? We'll be posting again more information on the project website as the project moves forward. I urge you to follow that if you're interested and we'll post additional contact information for other members of the project, such as the inspector, the construction inspector and the superintendent on the site after they get assigned. So we'll have that information for you as well. But I would be the main contact and I could get that information for you. So anyway, we look forward very much to improving this continuing to improve the infrastructure in Fort Worth. And I appreciate your time tonight. I'll try to answer any questions you have along with my colleagues. So now is a good time. So maybe we should start Raul with the chat questions. But thank you, Raul. I'm Raul Lopez, I'm the program manager that oversees the thoroughfares. Good evening, everyone. So yeah, there's a couple of questions in the chat. Question number one is any option for double left turn lanes of North Terran on the river side? Brad, I don't believe that double left turn lanes are warranted based on the volumes of the operation of the proposed signal. Is there anyone from Casey here or maybe someone from a version of the dawn that can speak to the proposed operational signal? Yeah, hey, Raul. This is Casey Stevenson from Peloton. No, based on the level of service and the population projections, double left turn lanes were not warranted on this intersection. Okay, that's what I thought. Thank you, Casey. Yes, sir. Yeah, the next question is, how firm is the schedule? Previous percentage schedules have been missed by months. The schedule is firm. The only caveat that I'm gonna throw into that is that we have on course deal on the west side of the roadway. They promised that they would be out of the way by the end of May. So if they are out of the way by the end of May, we will start construction in June. Should they not be able to fulfill that commitment? If we don't have any opportunities anywhere else to start construction, they may have to shift the, but I don't expect that to happen. Like now, Mcmown can tell us if, maybe they can start intersectional well the utilities are still in the way. Is anybody, I think they're so, James, are you in the call? Yes, sir, I'm here. This is James Sprouse with the construction. James, if let's say Angkor was not able to remove the power poles on the east west side, is there any work that can be done within the intersection? Of course, we could, I was actually looking at the phasing plan and there may be a way that we could actually reverse the phasing plan and go ahead and get construction started and basically just build it nearly in the opposite fashion in which it's presented in the current phasing plan. And that would possibly, I need to dig into that a little bit deeper to make sure everything works with the traffic phasing. And we probably need to have a coordination meeting ahead of time. So I think we could roll and get things progressing. So we don't just sit at a stagnant standstill. Absolutely. And let me tell everybody, we are really excited that McMown got this job, not only because they have the job immediately south, but James himself in all of esteem is an excellent team. I, you know, this is Southern portion is the first time I worked with McMown Construction and I have to tell you, I'm really impressed. James is an excellent staff member and very flexible and always comes up with new ideas, new options. So I'm really excited that McMown got this construction project. Well, thank you, Raul. We're, you know, McMann is excited as well. And I can't take all credibility. We got Manuel Roches on here tonight. It's our site superintendent. He's going to be the site superintendent for phase four as well as he participated heavily and is still finishing out phase three just to the south. But I think we've got a very successful project ahead of us. It's going to have its challenges like any others, but you know how we are, we'll figure it out together and build it as a team. Absolutely. We appreciate it, James. There's a few more questions. Is the intersection at Dalton Street in Prairie is that going to be redone? No, the project limits are from Shiver Road to North Garant. I believe Dalton is further north. And no, that is not part of the scope of this project. Turning left onto Riverside of either Street is upward. Not really sure what that is. That was related to the previous question. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, that's not considered as far as this project. As far as I am aware, we were not proposing improving Dalton at this time. What is the activity at the roundabout? What is the activity on at the roundabout on the west side of Shiver and Riverside? That might be a developer type project. West side of Shiver and Riverside, yeah. See, you know, that's it. I'm looking at a good picture of that. I'm sorry. I'm looking at the Google Maps and of course Google Maps is probably six months old. But if there is a roundabout west of the Shiver roundabout, is that what Mr. Jones is saying? Yeah, I'm not aware of what's happening west of the Shiver roundabout. And that might be development. If it's being extended, it might be a development type project. And unfortunately, I'm not aware of what's going on there. No, it is bright. We can chase it out and see if we have anything on there. Our development services department. Oh, yeah, I'll make a note to look to see what's not now. But I'm not, again, I'm like, I was that I'm not kind of that right now. But yeah. What we'll do is we'll take these questions that we can't answer tonight and we'll post answers in the product site on the website. West of recently completed projects south of the chair and completed on time, now they're actually, it's not fully completed because we added an extension of Summerfield School of Art, but they're actually well ahead of time. The completion of the project was September 2021. And James, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're going to be through June or July of 2021, including that traditional scheme. Depending on, you know, I know there's another possible change there at the Summerfield addition for a turn lane and a crossover. Without that going into effect, if that doesn't happen, I think we'll be substantially complete by the end of May with the original contract. Yes, that little change will happen, James. And for everybody in the in the call, we will be cutting a medium opening on the extension of Summerfields to provide access to Carolina or Carolina and Trada called us out and I'll call this act. I think it goes all the way through. That small pocket subdivision there will be providing a left turn pocket to the state, the westbound traffic in turn west and the northbound traffic in turn. And without being said, I could, we can anticipate a good substantial completion by end of June for the entire project so also keep in mind the original completion that you stated for that project was for the original contract only with these years changing. We've had over a million dollars for the change orders and we still complete it by the end of June. I think that's a pretty good achievement for everybody involved. We're in the best hands here with construction. Completed that project, the original scope, probably six to nine months ahead of time and they're still there because we've added a few other things that were not in the original contract. So and they'll still be able to finish that before the original contract time. And yeah, the original contract time. So Lance Griggs, Summerfield Neighborhood Association. One quick question. Was there any consideration being given to the ability of officers to ingress and egress out of their sector while this construction is going on? I'm sorry. I think I missed something you said. Is there any consideration to something officers? I missed the word. I'm sorry. Yes, in a police sector there where they hold their road calls and go out to the neighborhoods. I'm just wondering if there were some considerations given to ensuring that they'll always have access, good access to and from North Riverside. Brad, do you want to take this? Yes, that will be maintained. The access is going to be maintained at all times, of course. I'm not sure that if it's a certain time of day and you're talking about perhaps a large egress and so like with the directions and so forth with an officer on foot or something, is that what you mean? Or are you just mean access in general? I just meant access in general. Just wanted to make sure that there were considerations that officers have to come and go out of there and hopefully we won't restrict that movement. Right now, during construction there will be access from the police station at all times. You know, there may be a time when we're pulling one of the driveways but there will still be access through the other driveway. We're cognizant, it's a police station and we need to maintain egress and egress. I'm well-coordinated directly with the police department staff, contractor and the city will coordinate directly with them when we're pulling their driveways. Good for you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We'll try to coordinate with all people that have access to the roadway and of course especially public service like that. So yes, great, thank you. So there's one more question, Brad. How will traffic be impacted during the day while construction is on their way? You want to take this one or maybe with Casey's help? I'll start but then perhaps Casey can fill in. I know that at least there'll be a single lane as it currently exists each direction at all times. So maybe there'll be some small stops when trucks move in and out and so forth. But I believe the intent is to have at least the lane at a time that we have now fully open. I don't know if that's pretty general but maybe Casey has a better answer but more detailed or anything that you want to add, Casey? Yeah, sure. In general, the idea is that we will install temporary, some temporary asphalt and some facilities to transfer traffic between lanes. But the idea is that the lanes will be built, northbound lanes first and then southbound lanes. And then I mean that's the full extent of the traffic implications. At this time we're not proposing any detours and it's a of utmost importance to keep access to the police station and all the commercial businesses around there. I hope that helps. If there's any other questions, I'd be glad to go into more detail. I have a couple questions. Sure. My name is Gary Wright. I'm the HWA President for Manor Hill at Alliance. We're situated just east of North Riverside at Shiver. So the park that runs through there, that's the development there. Will there be any closures of that circle at Shiver at all during the construction and we'll be able to get in and out of Shiver the complete time? Yeah, we're not proposing any closures to the Shiver roundabout. You should be able to maintain full access to that intersection. Okay. And it will be four lanes the entire distance, right? Yes, sir. Okay. And one last question. There just south of Shiver on the east side, there's a bridge where the water runs underneath from the west side to the east side in the park there. That bridge, they have an iron, a black iron fencing atop it. And will that be impacted in any way whatsoever? For all holidays, we put our flags on that. I'm wondering if there'll be any changes of that or any removal of that at all? No, sir. Okay, thank you very much. We're not going to impact that head wall or the iron fencing above it. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Yes, sir. Any other questions that we can help you with? There's one more question in chat. Oh, okay. You've heard that two or three of the local cement producing plants are down. Is there any concern with getting concrete for the project? Raul, would you like me to speak on that one? Yes, absolutely. So again, this is James Pruitt with McMahon Contract. He has the contractor on the project. So we are experiencing a industry-wide shortage of cement due to one of those facilities being down. But McMahon Contract, one thing we have going for us on this project, too, is we own our own concrete batch plant. And as you saw on the other phase of North River Side to the south, we were able to knock that paving out in an extremely timely fashion by producing our own concrete onsite. And we have every intention of doing that again in this upcoming phase. And as of right now, we, as a company with McMahon, is not experiencing any issues getting cement from our suppliers to batch our own material. If we have to buy concrete from another supplier, that's the issue where we may run into some problems. But for 90% of this job, we will be producing our own concrete. I hope that helps you with your answer. Thank you, James. That's a good question. Hey, Brad Rowell, if you don't mind, I think I might be able to add some or hear some information about the development on the west side of the Shiver Roundabout. Oh, that's, yeah, go ahead. Construction on that won't be started until later this year. But right now, it's going to be more mixed use development. And like I said, the construction on that should start later this year. Okay. And that's immediately west of the Shiver Roundabout, right? Yes, sir. Okay. Appreciate that information, Casey. If anybody has another question, they please unmute yourself and go for it. Sounds like maybe that's all. There's no more chat, right, Rowell? No more chat questions. There's a west of Shiver Apartments retail so it's going to be both. It's mixed use. Sorry, Casey said mixed use. Yeah, just to be fine. Mixed use is actually both residential and commercial. Correct. Yeah. So that is the last question that we have in the chat. Thank you very much. Thank you, everyone, for their attendance. Thank you, Gov. Great work. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.