 The city of Fort Worth. I'm the project manager for this project. Before we begin, I would like to apologize to those that did learn about this meeting on very short notice. We have been trying to navigate trying to set up these meetings without a communication specialist for a while, but luckily the city has a new specialist. Her name is Laura. She is on the call today and moving forward. She will be helping set up these meetings. Specifically to those with North Fort Worth Alliance. Those are primarily people that found out about this such short notice. So we appreciate those that were able to join us. So this is the public community meeting for the traffic signal and pedestrian improvements at the intersection of Beach Street and Ray White street. This is located in council district number 7. And at this time, I ask if there is anyone from council council district joining us if they could introduce themselves. Oh, hold on. It's Tara and council district for for the time being for a few more days. I'm just listening in and thank you for getting the word out and I'm happy to help distribute any information so we can play catch up on our end. And that's it. Thank you so much. Thank you. So with that, we'll go ahead and get started. I would like to remind everyone that this meeting is being recorded and it will be uploaded to the city of Fort Worth website afterwards. This city of forward project number is one zero four zero zero one. As mentioned before, my name is Ivan Lopez and the project engineers for this project are half associates. The agenda for the meeting today will go over for the project background. And then we'll go, I'll explain in detail the design. The project schedule. I will give out contact information for the project. And then at the end, we will leave some time to answer questions. So a little bit about the project background. So this project initiated was initiated through a traffic signal warrant study. Now it's completed in 2017. I will talk about that in further detail a little bit later on, but currently the project is funded by the 2022 bond program. And the objectives of this project are mainly to improve the traffic flow at the intersection specifically during the peak hours. We're hoping that this will improve the left turning movement specifically coming out of beach. And then we hope to improve pedestrian safety by installing pedestrian actuated signals with push buttons and ADA compliant curb ramps at all four corners. This is the project location map. We are talking about the intersection of North Beach Street and Ray White Road. That is south of Golden Triangle Boulevard and north of Heritage Trace Parkway. This is the current design as it stands for the project. I'll kind of, if everyone can see my mouse, I'll kind of point. Can y'all see my mouse. Anyone confirm that. Yes. Okay, perfect. Thank you. So we are going to be installing pedestrian curb ramps at all four corners of the intersection with push buttons. Pedestrians will be able to cross all four legs of the intersection. We will be installing traffic signals at all four corners as well. And we will be restriping the left trend lanes going north and south to better to reduce the distance required for those left turning movements. To alleviate that we also will be doing median work and bringing those medians are further down and then as you can tell kind of pushing them further in so that there is more kind of that deflection for that left turn. We will be installing crosswalk markings on all four corners. And then along going west and east we will be redoing the pavement markings along that to incorporate left turn lanes. So a little bit about the signal warrant study that I mentioned previously. So what that means is that traffic counts were collected in 2017. That data is then taken and put into a report and then measured against the signal warrant requirements found in the TMUT CD, which stands for the Texas manual for uniform traffic control devices. And that data showed that traffic signal warrants one, two and three were met, which recommended that a signalization be taken at this intersection. Additionally, we did during the data collection find that there have been about 10 accidents at this intersection from September 2015 to December 2017. And I will mention that between 2017 and 2009 there were another additional four accidents at the intersection. This is the current project schedule. As mentioned, we are currently in the design phase. We do plan on finishing the design near the summer of this year. And before we do go under construction, we will be holding a pre construction public meeting sometime in July. During that meeting, we will have the contractor available to answer any questions regarding the traffic control implementation during construction in the area. We do estimate construction to begin August 2023 with an estimated duration of about six to eight months. And that will vary depending on how quickly the contractor can secure the materials for the project such as the traffic signals. Currently, we are needing right away clips at three of the four corners. And we are in the process of acquiring that and we hope to complete that in June of 2023 before construction begins. Through the design process, we have found no utility impacts. And we do have an estimated construction cost of $779,000. This is the project contact information. As mentioned, my name is Ivan Lopez. I'm the project manager with the city of Fort Worth. And as you can see my contact information, as well as the contact information for the design engineer from half associates Kevin. He is also on the call today to help answer any questions with regards to the design at this intersection. I will make a quick plug for the my Fort Worth app that it is available on both Apple and Google. This app allows citizens to who have requests regarding other traffic signals or other intersections to submit their request to the city. As well as you can text hello to the following number. Call the city call center or just go on to the website into the chat box. So those are resources if anyone has questions or requests with other intersections. And with that, I will open it up for questions. I will go back to the slide where I show the design. That everyone can see. This is David Smith of the question concerning left turn lanes. Will this be, will you have the ability to turn left on a flashing yellow arrow? Um, yes. I mean, was that you Kevin? I think that was someone else, but to affirm that response. Yes, there will be flashing yellows at these left turn lanes. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you for your question. My name is Christian Hamilton and I've been up there for 18 years before North Beach was even thought of where, where that particular intersection is. Um, y'all said, y'all mentioned there was a traffic study done in 2017. While you're going off of a about 4 to 60 year old. Traffic study. Why don't y'all do a new traffic study to 2023 is 2017 and 2023. We all know there's been more people moved there. Matter of fact, I'm actually sitting at the intersection right now. Um, on my phone watching it, and there's really not that much traffic. I can pull out from Ray white coming from the fire station direction. And shoot straight across and get over there's really not much traffic coming from Ray right. Or the other side's coming from the cross the farms development. Um, I'm just, I'm confused to why I spend all that money for intersection that you mentioned that has had. At most 14 wrecks. There's another intersection that's off of golden triangle and firm at 53, 3 signal and triangle with right about there's been more wrecks there. And there has been the 14 at the intersection that this project is going to go on this. Why is there like, in my opinion, like, why, why, why would you spend the money for intersection that doesn't have that much traffic going through it? I'm like sitting at the intersection right now. I mean, if I turn on my camera, you can see there's really not much people at this intersection coming through. They like that's that. That's that the Eagle Ridge elementary school zone holds back much of the traffic to allow that. And there's a large gaps, a large gaps of time that you can not hop across or go straight across. Thank you for your question. Um. I can let Aziz speak on the signal a little bit, but I can talk on that as well. If you want. Yeah, Omar is also with the city of Fort Worth. He can speak on it, but I will just mention the signal warrant study is data driven. So, as you mentioned, this is a study from 2017. That data was the traffic signal was data supported back then. Now with additional cars vehicles in the area. I mean, I would. It would probably show it even more likely. So, we initially got a request at like, I think, 2017 there. And later years, we also got a request for the signal is like, we got the request for 1921 we got another request. So, it is like, not just like 1. Request for the signal at this location. We did this study. So we did that and we seek it. It's coming. So that's why it's still in the list. I'm actually all for for this light to happen. I, my house backs up to this intersection and I have called. I mean, if somebody will pull my police reports. I have called on so many wrecks behind our house. And mine and my neighbors, we have actually had people run into our backyard. I've had. Multiple people are just wreck right into our fence lines, take out the whole stone. Thing that the puts up, I mean, it's just been a mess and I get it. There might be a little bit of traffic. Right now, right? But the majority of the time, I mean, if it's raining. If it's rush hour, these cars are still flying out off of Ray wide into beach. Like, as if the, you know, this freaking stop sign would never existed. And I've been here since 2006. That is actually another issue there. Like, there's not good side distance for the cross street from a rare wide. So the, the party walls are so close to the intersection. The cross still doesn't have the visibility so they can easily make a mistake. When they turn out from there. That's causing the mostly accident. So that's another thing like safety perspective signal is also needed there. As he's speaking specifically on this because I believe this is the main issue with this intersection. I live there. I use an exception at least 10 to 20 times every day. When you are crossing or making a right turn. You have very poor visibility to see whoever come and go beach. So, after the, after the signal is installed with the right turn, be allowed or not. Right turn on red. I mean, right turn on a red. Will be allowed. But, but if right turn on red will be allowed these fences on this on three of the four corners will limit the visibility. So, whoever is coming from very wide, making the right turn in beach. If the signal is red and the beach street signal is green, there is still a big chance of an accident. Yeah, I agree with, I agree with whoever that was saying that the accident is there's a big blind spot. I mean, I could barely see around the corner and I'm having kind of inch out slowly. You can see the go looking towards the ego rage side of the school zone. Coming from ego rage. We love that. So, yeah, we can actually private the right turn. I've been signed there. Yeah, right turn will not. All right turn on red. And that's good feedback and we appreciate that and that's definitely something we'll we'll look into and see how, how we can try to alleviate that. Concern. Is this light going to affect the engine house 37 response time. Signal light will have. Opticom devices that actually communicate with the fire truck. So, they will quite the priority for them. Well, this Opticom system work because there's a signal right in front of my house. At the intersection and Golden Triangle and Rancho place and cross farms drives that my church had land bought from bought by the city of Fort Worth is even build and half their Opticom systems don't work I sit. I'm a youth leader at the church and I will see fire trucks having to slow down. And the lights are constantly red in their license, they're like license sirens and all that is this option system want to work at this intersection. And yeah, that this is that as a full intention. You know, there will be testing before the intersection is fully open. So, we will make sure that it works. I want, we have few comments on the chat. I'd like to go through them. Few in the beginning or that about the safety factors that they have seen wrecks at the location. With the residents being happy with us installing a traffic signal here that's good. And then. Mostly these are the comments instead of questions. We just have one comment that's a question. Asking about if we are providing a protected exit to beach from Crawford forms. So, would you like to answer that? I think we are, but yeah, go ahead. I'm not quite sure on on that actually. Kevin, do you know if we are. Are you speaking to looks like John posted the comment as far as protected exit. Do you just mean. You know, that's kind of the intent of the traffic signal when. Beach turns turns red everyone on Ray white will be able to then turn out from from Ray white. Is that kind of what you're getting at John with that question or. Were you asking for something else. That's correct. I think we have a lot of traffic that comes from Crawford farms down through clear fork. And heritage because people don't want to go out to. Beach because it's it's a it's a race track and you can't turn off a very wide onto it. So they come actually down through. There's a cut through on brevet and then go out the light at all to these to go across. And even those their signs and say no cut through in the mornings. It's it's a constant race track on our on our six streets in clear fork. So we're hoping this will eliminate. A lot of that traffic and let them go out to beach. If that makes any sense. No, I think that makes sense John and that's really the intention of kind of what the, I'm sure what the Warren study was was investigating and then. Really with the signal in general is to allow, you know, some, some smoother traffic movement through this. Through this section and, you know, in peak hours, you're not having the backups that you would normally see school times, you know. That's the whole whole idea of this traffic signal. So that would be our hope as well. Kevin. Is there going to be traffic cams at this intersection by chance. And don't believe so reason why I asked that because like y'all noted there's been a lot of directs. And like everybody else has noted they've seen Rex, like I think that lady said she's called and I want to hold me mean times pretty much. And that's why I'm trying this at like, is there going to be traffic cams to catch stuff like that. Just in case if we get those random people that don't really pay attention. Yeah, well, go ahead. So you're saying traffic camera. You're referring. Yeah, it is the camera. So there, there will be a camera to monitor traffic for operation purpose. It will not record the V any video will not have that video recording capacity is just so for real time. Video for managing the traffic operation. Whenever needed. The goal of the traffic signal installation would be to minimize those those crashes so hopefully such a thing as a need wouldn't be needed anymore because the traffic signal would reduce those reasons why I asked that is like another like the light at the Cross Farms Drive and Golden Triangle. There was a bunch of there was a bunch of Rex, even with a signal put there. I mean there was cars getting slammed into traffic signal poles and, and there was no cameras to figure out who did it who did who did what and this and that and it was causing damage to fences and a car got launched in my church parking lot one time and and it just it would just yeah if you know if if what I'm saying make makes any sense. Yeah, it makes sense. But yeah, as mentioned at this time we there that's not being installed. Really, it's a it's a maintenance issue for the city as well. There's really no one to monitor those. So that's kind of why. But moving forward we'll we'll keep once we install the traffic signal we'll we'll keep monitoring the signal the intersection and. If we do continue to see crashes, which hopefully we don't, you know, we, we will look into into. What else can be done at the intersection. Hey, this is Brad. I just want to say thank y'all for doing this. We do appreciate it. I go, I think my child, the school and cross that road every single day, multiple times in the median at most given times, there's can be up to 4 or 5 cars in the median at the same time, trying to figure out how to get by. So, this is greatly appreciated. So, thank you. Thank you for your comment, Brad. I got a question on, is this going to be set by timing or will it be sensors for all 4 directions. To know when to change the signal. For the life. You do that sense for all directions. Thank you. Are there any other questions. Comments. I may have missed it from the beginning since I came on late. When do you expect this to get started on. In the summer, I will. I don't miss speak. We do anticipate construction starting in August and it will last about 6 to 8 months. So, why, what major I picked towards the ladder end of the summer months instead of the beginning because there's a bunch of projects that seem to take forever when it's going towards the winter times with all the weather changes and rain and all that that comes with the weather changes. I mean. Yeah, I would think the whole goals to try to get the project rolling smooth and the hottest times and when you know there's no rain. I've worked for many, many cities and town, county, precinct 1 and 3, and any job we did that were heavy big tarot. We made sure we got done during the heat of the summer and not the ladder end of the summer. Yeah, and so that kind of speaks to the duration. It's kind of 6 to 8 months. The contractor will have a little bit of flexibility and really it comes down to how quickly the contractor can procure those. Those long lead item items such as the traffic signal poles. Those are in high demand right now. So, it's not like they can just fire those very quickly. So it'll, it really depends on that. Thank you, Ivan. Looking forward to July's meeting. Thank you. I do have 1 more question when you're going into construction. Will any of the roads be closed for a period of time? Or what will construction look like? That'll be answered more in detail during the pre construction meeting. But we do anticipate having at least 1 lane open in all directions. So that the we will. Aim to maintain access to this intersection at all times, but there may be a lane. Close from time to time to install certain things, but the. The intersection will remain active. Thank you. I'm in this Tara. I would ask, is there after after the meeting today or tomorrow actually, but or whenever you get around to it. Can you send me the presentation? I will share with district 7 in case we get question. Absolutely. Awesome. Thank you. Looks like that's all we had from chat. Is there a, is there any chance this is going to cost more than what the projected amount. It like the 779,000. That they're going to cost the city making our taxes raise. If it goes over. I mean. We're not guaranteed that price. Correct. But the. Flexibility, there is a contingency built in place. So if there are, if it is slightly over. It, there are protocols in place to take care of that. You said there's plans of being a restriping the left. Left turn lanes. Is there any going to be any more striping done. A long beach. With that striping or just that section. Yeah, I believe we are just restriping kind of refreshing all the pavement markings on the intersection and about, I think 200 feet in each direction. And that's the extent of the project. The additions. The new additions to the striping would be the crosswalks and then if you can see my mouse. These kind of. Chevron marked out spaces on the pavement. Those will be new as well. So pretty much is going to be like a mini miniature version of the Golden Triangle and North Beach intersection. Yes. We have any more questions. In the chat. From the anyone's one comment just a second. Hoping this light will slow down traffic on beach. I think it will. At least it will give a safer access for people living on or coming in and out of a wide to, you know, make the terms on beach street. Yeah, being out there myself, it can be very. You have to be pretty brave to take a left turn going westerie or coming out of the westerie side. That is all we had. I will. Perfect. Well, thank you all those for who joined the call that are still on the call. Thank you Chris for all your participation. We greatly appreciate it. And like I said, this is being recorded. So we will upload this to the city website and. Have a rest have a good rest of your day. Thank you guys. Thanks so much y'all.