 On the call know that we are recording this meeting, Laura will process it afterwards and she sends it out to folks. I think it might be put on the website, but we just want to let you know that we are recording the meeting. Good evening, everyone. Thank you all for joining us to talk about the best with an old town to pay traffic signal. It's 605. So we will go ahead and get started. And this meeting will be recorded. So, this is the pre construction community meeting for the traffic signal, pedestrian improvements at Basswood Boulevard and old Santa Fe trial, which is in council districts 2 and 7. Before we get started, are there any representatives from these council districts that would like to give a few words. A macho. I'm district director to the office of council member Carlos floris district 2. Hello. I just wanted to give a quick message. Councilman floris apologizes for not being able to attend today's virtual meeting. He's paying his respects attending a wake at a, at the moment. He wants to thank staff for working with him and making this. Traffic signal a possibility and also the community for their involvement and continue participation. And we were happy we keep working with everybody here and continuing to improve the safety of the community. So, thank you. So, my name is fantastic and the design engineers is a engineering. Who's also on the so our agenda for tonight will go over the project background, the project update the project schedule and also project contact information. Just a little on the background so this project is funded by the 2022 bond and the objectives include improving the traffic flow during peak hours, reducing delay and overall safety for all users. Pedestrian safety improvements at the intersection, including the petition, actuated signals with push buttons as well as a compliant curb ramps. The project location we are in North Fort Worth. This is West of 35 and we had a design phase public meeting back in March. We had a really great turnout and a few concerns that were brought up. We just want to give an update. So, one of the things that came up was why is the traffic signal needed at this location and the volumes on Basswood Boulevard. They're, they're so high and so it's hard for the side street traffic on old Santa Fe to get gaps to access Basswood Boulevard. Um, there was concerns regarding the backups backup from single West. To round about at horseman road and so with this signal, some queuing is anticipated. However, we're we're not expecting it to extend all the way to the roundabout, which is. 1900 feet to the West other concerns from that meeting were drainage issues just east of the intersection. And so the city has conducted preliminary review of the drainage issues. So we've reached out to a consultant. We've received that study. And so we're looking at options to address the drainage concerns and we'll, we'll see whether or not that can be included into this project or a future project. Because the scope of this project is for that traffic signal. However, we are looking at our options to address the drainage issues. There was concerns about backup at 35. And the city will coordinate the new signal with the existing traffic signal at 35. And also the city has submitted a request to text out for a dual eastbound left turn lanes at 35 in Basswood. In regards to the check traffic on Basswood. Currently, there are no track restrictions on Basswood east of Santa Fe. However, there's a no track right turn sign at West of the intersection. And the city is reviewing options for track traffic and then the last is the U turn traffic. The existing U turn restrictions will remain and city will look to conduct additional enforcement operations at this intersection. So, now for the current design, we are planning on implementing left turn exclusive lanes for each direction. And then we'll have crosswalks in our for directions as well as 88 ramps and pedestrian signals. Update on the project schedule. So the plan construction start is September 2023 with an estimated duration of 8 months with no right of way required. And in regards to utilities, we are in coordination with on core. The estimated construction cost is about $900,000 conditions to expect during construction overnight closure for all medians requiring concrete work various daily lane closures, shoulder closures for a north and southbound traffic. And no detour rods needed project contact information. We have our design engineer with engineering Scott. His number is 4, 6, 9, 6, 2, 1, 0, 7, 1, 0. Myself Fanta Kaba, I'm the city project manager. My number is 8, 1, 7, 3, 9, 2, 8, 0, 2, 2. And then we have our construction contractor, this number is 8, 1, 7, 5, 6, 1, 7, 4, 0, 0. We have a few options. So, we love getting your feedback. Um, an example is the drainage issue that was brought up in our previous meeting. So, other options to bring to our attention concerns are we have the Mike Fort Worth up for Apple. My forward that for Google both links are on this slide. You can also text hello to 817835 my Fort Worth or 6, 9, 3, 9, and then you can also call the city cost center 817, 3, 9, 2, 3, 3, 4. And there's also the chat box on the city of Fort Worth website. Fanta, I don't think I don't think I have the ability to mute folks on the team. Laura probably did that. I'm not sure if you can or not. I know she assigned you some privileges, but it seems like we're getting some feedback from maybe a couple of our participants. Okay, let me, I will have to stop, stop sharing really quick to do that. I'm going to open it up for questions while I try to mute. Okay, so I believe I was able to mute everyone. So. If anyone has any questions, please go ahead and ask. You can also enter questions into the chat. I'm looking at the chat. I'm not sure Fanta can see it right now. We have a couple chats from Rusty Fuller asking us to please send him a copy of the presentation. And he's included his email address so we can definitely do that Fanta right now. I don't see any other questions in the chat. Hope I didn't mess up by muting everyone and now they're not able to ask questions, but I was just trying to. Help get rid of that background noise. So, um, Rusty Fuller is asking why this is taking 18 months to build. I mean, excuse me, 8 months to build. Do you want to try to address that Fanta? And there's a couple other questions in here too. So the 1st question is, why is this taking 8, 8 months? Yes, so we are. Experiencing some delays and material procurement. So, what we've done is we've gone ahead and ordered some long lead items, things like the polls and masterms that are taking. Really long times to be delivered and that's in the hopes of. Limiting the construction duration, however, we are. We're trying to get the signal built testing as possible for you. Okay. That's right. Material acquisition is a problem and we've really worked hard to start that process early actually for this project and all of our traffic signal projects that are happening right now. We have a question from D and K. It says, hi Fanta. How will the construction limit Santa Fe enclave's ability to get out during the 8 months of construction? Are you familiar with where that is Fanta? Yeah. Cody, if you're still on the car, do you want to take that question? I can't I'm actually pulling up the drawings here. So, Chad, could you repeat that 1 more time? Yeah, so the question is, how will the, how will the construction, how will the construction limit Santa Fe enclave's question moved up. How will the construction limit Santa Fe enclave's ability to get out during the 8 months of construction? Okay, I guess I'm not, I'm not certain on Santa Fe enclave. What that is you just talking about on Santa Fe drive. That's the community south of the intersection. Okay. So pretty much where we're just going to be doing daily lane closures. So, if anything, we'll be restricting. You know, a right turn or a left turn, but there's 2 lanes there. There's 2. Lanes there now, so you would be able to turn right or left coming out of there. And it's just a daily lane closure. So it'll be opened up, you know, on. Non working hours, so we'll try to limit the. The lane closures as much as possible, but. At the same time, we do need to protect our employees while they're out there. You know, installing this work, there always be access. Okay, that's perfect. The next question is, do you expect any days where there will be major disruption to the normal traffic flow? During the construction process? So, I kind of think you just covered it, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty much going to be daily lane closures. The only other time that, you know, that it'll be. Could be a little congested is when we go to stand the signal polls. Because at that point, I'll be when we're. We're standing in the signal poll, I have to stop traffic completely. While we're erecting the signal poll and getting it secure and safe to allow cars to travel underneath it. That's very minimal and we'll do that pretty quickly. So. You know, it's pretty much going to be daily lane closures throughout the duration of the project. Okay, and then I'm Sean is asking, could you please review the anticipated start date? He missed that slide. So the can you tell us again? Fanto when we're expected to start construction. Yes, construction is anticipated to start in September with the duration of 8 months and I can actually go back to that slide. I think you may have accident. Oh, sorry. And then our next question is thanks for showing that slide Fanta. Our next question is, will the workers be allowed water breaks? Absolutely. Did that did the answer come from Cody? Yes, yes, the question was, are my workers going to be allowed water break? Yes, sir. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. So Cody is our contractor for the traffic signals and you just heard it from straight from him. Yeah, we always, especially when it's hot outside, we'll always have a canopy or something of that nature for. For them to pull out of and get underneath and get some shade. Get some drinks, get some electrolytes in them. You know, safety is our number 1 thing here. Okay, we have another question from Sean. It says also quickly, he says, I'm an engineer. So I understand the term daily lane closures, but the rest of the audience may not. So can we please clarify that? And talk a little bit more about the traffic control. Yeah, so pretty much on that. So. So say we're taking, I don't know if y'all familiar if y'all, if you can pull up the plan or not. So, pretty much we'll be setting out barricades, restricting vehicles, say, travel. He's found on Santa Fe and it'll just have a long taper with cones, you know, saying, right lane closed with arrow boards, shift and traffic over. And that is will be between the hours of most likely 9 to 4. And we do that that way we can locate utilities for, you know, boards crossing the street so we don't hit anything things of that nature. And so, once we get done there. With that, then we'll, you know, move on to a different section. So. Daily lane closure won't last more than 8 hours, typically. And traffic will still be able to move through that area because there's multiple lanes. So our intent is never to completely shut down the road. And also. Not to require any detours, is that correct? Correct. That's correct. Not only the only place where we'll have some, some barricades up, you know, overnight will be when we go to cut back those median noses. Because we have to barricade those off, you know, sufficiently. So, you know, vehicles don't drive off in there because we have to have time to remove the concrete and then place the pavement back. And then, you know, to get those, get those medians, draw it back. Okay, perfect. I don't see any other quit. Oh, wait. Our next question is from Monica. She says, do you know what type of signal lot will be going up? Will there be arrow signals to turn left or right? Yes, I can answer that. Yes, there will be, there will be arrows for your left turn. You'll have Fanta. Can you show us that slide that shows the intersection improvements? We're talking about it. Thank you. You're on T must say signal head for. And they will be flashing yellow arrows. Let me go to the so we have left. Left turn lanes and exclusive left turn lanes in all direction and the side street will the main sheet will have flashing yellow arrow. That's correct. No, be protected. Monica also asks another question. Okay. And the same rule applies. No, you turn allowed. Yes, so we had that on 1 of the previous slides. So the existing you to restrictions will remain. Are those are just, are those just signs on the arms that say no, you turn. I think they're are they located in the medians? Yes, so the those signs will be located on the mass arms. Okay, and Monica has a concern. She says, honestly, people ignore the signs. Um, I know you mentioned on 1 of your slides that we were working with the city to provide more monitoring out there. I thought I saw something about that. Yes, so we were going to have to look into. Additional 1st man options for this intersection because. What what what the signs we do understand that compliance is not. 100% so yes, we are we are looking into those options. Chad, this is rusty fuller. I wanted to say, well, we've got all of the folks online here. How much we appreciate this city having listened to the input from the. From the design meeting and so. And taking those into consideration and answering them and even trying to find solutions. So. Thank you very much. It it shows that participation in these things works both ways. Thank you. We appreciate you saying that I was going to say the same same thing to Fanta Fanta. I really appreciate you putting those on these slides and addressing them the way you did. You did a great job. Yeah, that's a team effort. We really enjoy this community outreach and. And putting all your feedback into all of our projects. Okay, there's a couple other things in the chat 1st, Monica says she's very grateful that this is finally happening. So that's great. We love to hear that. And then Tim says. Is he's asking this question, how will the traffic lots be timed for the green, red, et cetera. Excuse me. Yeah, so the traffic lights that we'll have a video detection here. So, you'll be running off of that and I'm sure there's timing in the plans for. How the signal will run so that will all be the city of 4 or traffic engineers will they'll tweak and tune that. Depending on the traffic flow, they'll watch it and see and then make necessary adjustments, but. Everything will be running be based off of. Video detection, so say you have somebody. You know, sitting there coming out of 1 of the. The side streets or say you don't have anybody and you'll never. You know, the main drag will never get a they'll never. Get a red, you know, they'll continue to flow until a vehicle pulls up into that zone and they don't send a call to the controller and say, hey, we got somebody here. We need to. When he start timing it down to let these guys out. Thank you for that. And also just to add on to that, so. Because the proximity to the signal at 35 in Basswood, so the signal will be coordinated with that as well. Just so that you're not, you know, you're making it their 1st signal only to have a red at the next signal. So all of that is going to be taken into consideration along with the detection that Cody was mentioning. Okay, and we have another question in the chat from Carla. She says, when you said flashing yellow turn indicator, are you meaning the flashing yellow will come after a dedicated green arrow? Correct. She says very good. Thank you. Thank you. Carla, this is Rusty Fuller again. I would be remiss and not saying thank you for attending this meeting. Yes, sir. We truly appreciate the involvement in the community support we get from from the builders and the construction folks and your professionalism. So thanks for joining us. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks. And I'm trying to copy all of these great questions so that we have records of it. And I just noticed I missed something earlier from Monica. She was asking us about the no U turn signs. And she, she said that, you know, she was asking those questions because she was involved in an accident there or somewhere else due to that same very sort of condition of. You know, folks making U turns when they shouldn't. So I forgot to read that earlier. I apologize. Monica. I just now saw that. Can chair. This is, this is rusty again. I've noticed that on rare occasion. The city has used LED lights to outline stop signs. And I was wondering if it would be possible to consider outlining the no U turn sign with such a device so that it, it draws people's attention to it. Could you look into that? Cigar Fanta, you may you may have information about that, but also cigar is on the call. Yes. Yes. The city sometimes does install the LEDs on the outline of stop signs. But they're typically done and on post mounted signals. And and these, you know, you would be mounted on the on the traffic signal mashed on on the top. So that is not typical to have those. But like Fanta said earlier, we would do enforcement, you know, to prevent the no U turns does that answer your question sir? I mean, it's it's not done or it does. Let me just let me just say my experience over the past 10 years up here. Since we've gotten the North division is traffic enforcement for traffic violations is about as frequent as Oh, snow storms in the Sahara. We don't, we don't get the attention we need for law enforcement. So I was wondering if y'all could go back and take a look at how you could make the U turn signs. No, you turn signs more prominent. And hopefully get the attention. Okay. People defy them will defy them anyway. I don't. You could just look into that. Yes, yes. Yes, I didn't mention earlier. Sorry about that. But we are looking also into looking at if we can modify the left turn lanes so that that you turn. It's not feasible. So that's also one of the other options that we're looking into Monica supports that she top that into the chat. Okay, right now I don't see any other questions in the chat. Fanta. Oh, wait. Yeah. It says Monica says it. Yes, anything to discourage those you turn she supports. Yes, we understand that's a concern and we're doing. We're doing as best as we can to find find a solution for this. And then finally, Monica says that she lives in Santa Fe enclave just south of the intersection. Thank you everyone for joining us tonight. Are there any other questions comments or concerns. Okay. Thank you all for joining. And again, we, we really appreciate the feedback that we receive from the community and these are the options to. And put any requests. So we have the might forward that for Apple might forward that for Google. And then we have the text and hello to 817835 might forward. And also you can call the city call center at 8173921234. Thank you, Fanta. You did really great. You're really good at this. I appreciate you doing these meetings. And then we have just some additional things in the chat just saying they really are looking forward to the traffic signal and thank you for this meeting. So we appreciate everybody attending and participating. And thank you Fanta. Sure. Thank you everyone. All right. Have a good night.