 I'm Triangle and Keller Hicks. My name is Mark McCoy. I'm the project manager for the city of Fort Worth. Also on the call, just in case you hear some voices in the background, we have Alex Zayalov, who's another project manager, Rob Lopez, who's our program manager for the city of Fort Worth. Dan McLendon, who will be the contractor on this project, and Joe Bradley, who has been a design engineer and will continue to be. All right, here is the project map. This project is on North or West Side Drive between Golden Triangle and Color Hicks Road. For those of you not familiar with the area, there's a commercial or it's a medical office building here towards the south end of the job. It's a storage facility, Met Church, and also there are 2 schools on Color Hicks east of this map, but that would be Trinity Meadows Intermediate and Trinity Springs Middle Schools, which could potentially be impacted by this project. Okay, the main objective of this project is to widen the two lane roadway on North Riverside between Golden Triangle Boulevard and Color Hicks Road to a four lane roadway. Another objective is to improve mobility, to provide a shared bicycle and pedestrian path and to improve safety and intersection with Color Hicks Road. Currently, this is the only section of North Riverside that has not been improved to four lanes, so this will complete the widening between Golden Triangle and Chamberlain Boulevard. I'll show you what's going on here. You can see from Color Hicks down, you can see in the aerial that it's the only section. If you ever drive it, you know, that's only 2 lanes. So here we go. Currently, there's significant backups on the southbound lanes of North Riverside at Golden Triangle Boulevard. The current roadway is a 2 lane undivided section with no turn lanes. Currently, there's no sidewalk along the east side of Riverside. And also currently, there is not a traffic signal at Color Hicks. Here's a picture of what I was trying to describe the existing conditions. Not that North is left on this strong Color Hicks here. And there's about a 500 foot section down here in the south end close to Golden Triangle that has not been widened to match the rest of the current roadway. Ability will be improved during this project at Color Hicks, as I mentioned a minute ago, by adding a signal here. Okay, here's a picture of the proposed improvements in the pink color. You see that we're going to be adding separate northbound travel lanes in the pink, as I mentioned. Here's the existing southbound. Not not colored. We'll be adding a raised median. And there will also be a new shared bike and pedestrian path on the east side, which is showing gray here in this area. A new signal will be installed here at Color Hicks Road. And the signal will be opt, the timing will be optimized for this signal. You can see here, as I mentioned, the southbound, which would be the west side. In this exhibit, there's no improvements planned to that roadway. It's basically going to stay like it is, except for the tie-in to Golden Triangle. And of course, this project also the pedestrian facilities will be approved both at the intersections with new crosswalks, for example. And also the shared bike and pedestrian lane on the east side of North River side, as I mentioned. For those of you who might think like engineers, we included a. Exit of the proposed typical section, which is basically just showing this is looking south. So this is what the existing lanes look like, if you can see my cursor here. And the left side of the drawing would be the north proposed northbound traffic. You can see it. We're showing this 10-foot shared bike, pedestrian lane, and two new. Northbound travel lanes and a race meeting. Okay, some of the objectives of extra control during construction are to maintain one lane of traffic in each direction and to keep at least 1 driveway open at every business. The main place that could be impacted is the medical buildings on the east side of the road, which is right here. You can see that the storage facility and the church construction isn't going to really touch the southbound lanes so their driveways should not be impacted. But the medical building here has 2 new driveways that will be installed. So, but the idea is to keep 1 of those and putting it all times, at least 1. Okay, so we don't have the objectives of the project, but 1 more time to show how we're going to achieve those objectives is increased capacity, which means increased traffic flow. By widening as you come up to those intersections, obviously it's going to increase traffic flowing capacity through the intersection. The new signal at Keller Hicks will also help capacity and traffic flow and the signals having to be optimized. And additional travel lanes and a dedicated left turn will be added at Golden Triangle and stuff. Safety will be improved by proving the lane alignment through the intersection at Golden Triangle. Improving pedestrian facilities across walks and also adding a shared bicycle pedestrian path on the east side of the church. Just a few quick project facts here, a cost of schedule related. The construction contract was awarded for $4.1 million dollars. Instruction contract was awarded for February 8th just last week. Instruction is scheduled to begin sometime in April. And construction is scheduled to be substantially complete in 480 days, which makes it fall in fall of 2020. For those of you who don't know, the city of Fort Worth had the MyFW app that you can download from the Apple App Store or Google Play. It's just a handy way to communicate with various departments of the city for any issues you might have, not specifically for this project, but you know, if there's a straight line out, if you can trace the entrance, whatever, if you don't have it, consider getting it to very user-friendly and worth the effort. And that's where you stay in touch and the city does look at it and you look at it in response. That's the end of the prepared part of this presentation. Notice that my contact info is here. Mark McCoolway, that's me, project manager. Dan McLendon is also on the call. He's the construction manager from McLendon. And Rod's Group will be the contact if you have any traffic questions in the during construction. Okay, now's your chance. If you haven't put your question in the chat, you're welcome to ask a question on camera. Mark, this is Jeff. We have about five questions in chat. Let's run through those first, if you don't mind. Sure. Since they've been sitting out there. The first one is, will there be median cuts at the existing drive entrances along this section? This is Raul. Can you go back to the post-improvement slide? And good evening. I'm Raul. I'm the program manager that oversees the construction thoroughfares import board. And I'm going to help Mark here a little bit. So there will be median openings at most of the driveways as distance and safety permits. There will be median openings for the north driveway of the medical facility we'll be meeting opening for the old storage going northbound. And there will be a meeting opening for the med church going northbound as well. What's the next question? Second question is, will there now be two turn lanes from eastbound Golden Triangle to northbound Riverside? Now, this project doesn't address Golden Triangle is the focus of this project is basically the widening of the North Riverside Drive and that the limits are just north of that divided section of Riverside Drive all the way to Ketter. We can forward that. If there is a concern about dropping backing up in the eastbound Golden Triangle, the left turn movements, we can forward that to our traffic engineer for evaluation. But this project doesn't address Golden Triangle. David had a follow up question right behind that one, which is, will there be dedicated right turn lane for southbound Riverside on to westbound Golden Triangle? No, not at this time. We don't have to run away for that dedicated right turn. Will there, Mark says, when will north Riverside be completely closed to all traffic? There won't be any traffic, complete closures. There will always be at least one lane open in each direction. We did have another one. Is that signal at Keller-Hicks not too close to the one already at Timberland? At least the guidelines. About a thousand feet south, that's not fun. These questions are coming in pretty good now. So I've got quite a few more to go about. I'll go through. David also wants to know, will the speed limit on Riverside, will it be the same or changed once it's open completely? Alex, it won't change. It's got to be the same. Someone would like to go back to the, can you see the layout at the intersection of Golden Triangle again? It's curious if there's room allowed for emergency vehicles to get through like the other directions at the intersection. You're talking from south of Golden Triangle going northbound on Riverside? Is that where we're talking about my cursor? The answer is yes, emergency vehicles will be able to get through. When do you plan to complete the southbound expansion of North Riverside from 170? That's not a program. It's not funded. So that's uncertain. Will the lights be re-timed and optimized at Golden Triangle and Riverside once complete? Are we doing any improvements in the signal? Yes, that will be optimized also. Almost to the end of the written questions. Will the new construction of office buildings just west of North Riverside on Golden Triangle have an entrance exit to North Riverside or just to Golden Triangle? Do we know that? It's only what's shown on this layout is being provided. So that means that if it's in this area, there will not be a driveway in North Riverside. This will be a busy road and intersections for residents north of it when HEB opens out of Lyons Downcenter. We consider that. If anybody doesn't have the ability to put something on the chat because they they're actually on the phone, Jeff, can you open it up for local questions now? Yeah, that's a lot. That's the last question. Anyway, we did get a thank you in the chat. So if you're on the computer and muted, you can unmute yourself at any time. If you're a call-in user and I muted you due to some background noise, you can hit star six and unmute yourself to ask questions. Hey, so this has been great information. Thank you so much. And I'm just a follow-up to the speed limit question. The speed limit currently on the road is at 35 or 40 there. And I just want to confirm you said that it will remain the same, right? Well, we're going to have to get back to you, but the plan is not to increase the speed limit if that's what you're. Okay, great. That's what I just wanted to make sure. Thank you. Does anyone else have any questions? Go put in chat that the current lease speed limit is 40 on that section. Thank you for that information. The speed limit needs to made on change because otherwise it requires a normal balance to change it. So the speed limit will be the same. Pop-up, Jen. There's more questions coming up. Will there be any potential utility impact for residents of the villages of Willow Springs? I'm not sure what the question means by utility impact. Will there be any interruption service? And the answer to that is no, I don't think we have any. Do we have water and sewer outlets or water? It's not going to be relocated or anything. As far as the construction of this project is concerned, there shouldn't be any impact to water service. No. There shouldn't be any impact to electrical service either. Correct. Will this presentation be available to download? If you're interested, Jeff, do we post this? I think we post it in the website, don't we? It's being recorded and we will post the link to the recording on our YouTube channel as well as the project web page. If there's a specific reason you want like the actual PDF of the actual presentation without the context of the discussion, I'm sure we can provide that as well. She's a new person. And we do have one more question in chat that they've seen people fishing from the creek north of the intersection. This is being recorded, correct? Is there? Yes, it's being recorded. Mark, can you hear me okay? Mark, can you hear me? Okay, I'm not hearing any more questions. So I'm going to take this. There's one more. There's one more question in the chat. That was a good question. I attended this evening. About South Belmont. Don't forget if you have any questions, that occurred to you after we're done. Somehow they're not here to you. So let me answer some of these questions. And yeah, there's more questions coming out. What other questions you might have? If you'll give me a second. Let me let me tell them. Thank you for attending. Hang on, Mark. We're not done. Hang on. Can you guys hear me again? I lost audio for a minute. Oh, well, I'm going to ask you. I mean, like you, is your... Mark, can you hear me now? Sorry, they're trying to figure out why he could not hear you. Let me address some of these questions. Southbound Riverside has three lanes. Dedicated left turn straight and right turn. Why is that changing? You don't believe that Southbound Riverside has three lanes. I think it is two lanes plus the left turn lane. It presently goes from two lanes and break from the three just prior to Golden Triaddles Intersection. So there is a right, middle, and left of dedicated lane. So Alex and Mark, can you hear me? I don't think Mark can hear me. I don't believe that would be changing. Well, can you guys hear me now? I can hear you. Okay. I reconnected. To go back to that previous question, the video is recorded. It'll be posted on our YouTube channel as well as the project page for the website where we do our monthly updates once construction begins. If for some reason somebody needs a PDF version of the presentation that doesn't include all the audio we recorded, I'm sure we can provide that as well. So going back to the question about Southbound has three lanes. Dedicated left turn straight and right turn lane. Why is that changing? Alex, so there's going to be two through lanes and it's going to be a left turn lane. We are not providing an exclusive right turn because there's not enough right away. The amount of right turns here, it's not considerable. So we, you know, the outside through lane will provide the ability for right turn lanes. So it's going to be interesting getting from 170 to Bowlin Triangle with this construction out of Easter 170 being removed soon. Yeah, I believe the 170 is removing the crossover out of Easter. Yeah, we can go to the I'll follow up on more question. Yeah, if I can just address Misty's run question, the left through lane will back up travel immensely. We did a traffic study and we simulated traffic movement and that did not reveal to be a significant movement. So operation was deemed that acceptable level of service was deemed acceptable. So yes, we can take a questions on the phone now. No, mine was just from Dr. Traffic study. Had been done. So that you'd answered that question just now. Thank you. Okay. We apologize. Somehow Martin, Alex lost their audio so they couldn't hear us obviously. Our audio back roll. Oh, they did. Okay. Just in time for me to sound like I'm wrong. The online or phone having questions, the additional questions on Golden Triangle heading west. Will the right turn lane onto North Riverside remain as it is now? Or will that be reconfigured? That right. Caroline is going to remain the way it is. It's going to be a dual through and an a right. But as time progresses through this inner we keep an eye to see what type of improvements may need to be featured right now. We're solely just just concentrating on the intersection and see what kind of improvements as that intersection come with that whitening. That's exciting. That's exciting. You're all moving. Look at this. Do you have any questions? I think there are no any other questions. We appreciate everybody's attendance. And what look out for electronic message boards, which will let you know when the actual construction is going to start an April. We'll post electronic message boards to let you know when construction will start. Thank you very much and have a good evening.