 We're taking the time to join our virtual community meeting this evening to discuss the Las Vegas Trail at Normandale Street Improvement Project. My name is Martin Phillips. I'm going to put my camera on here and then I'll turn it off after we're just to save the band with. And it cannot connect. So that's my WebEx story for this evening. Sorry about that. But my name is Martin Phillips and I'm a senior capital projects officer in the. Capital delivery division for transportation and public works. And on the line with us is a sweater route with the project manager for the project that she'll be delivering the presentation this evening. In addition to that, we have Mr. Jeff Allen, who's our communication specialist and other important member of our team. And I just wanted to check to see if council member crane might be one of the callers. If so, if you'd like to say a few words and I always pause this in case just in case you mute it. Okay. And with that, you know, we're going to get into our virtual community meeting here. And so, if you would please proceed, you might be muted. Sorry, thank you for introducing the team. I really forgot that it's muted. Okay. I'll, I would like to welcome everyone again. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our community meeting for Las Vegas Trail at Normandale intersection improvements project. So, before we get our meeting started, I would like everyone to stay on mute till the presentation is complete. And if you have any questions regarding the project, you couldn't enter those questions in the chat box and we'll be happy to answer them at the end of the presentation. So, before I get into the presentation, I would like to introduce our engineer for the project. It's Adam cross from consultants. Adam, can you introduce yourself risk camera everyone? I'm Adam cross with G consultants. So, I'll be telling off my video to reduce the bandwidth. So we'll get started on the presentation. We have a brief agenda for our pre construction virtual meeting where we will go where the project location project background, the existing site conditions, proposed improvements at the intersection and what does the schedule look like. Coming to the location the intersections located south of 30 and least of the 20. As you all know, and it's a really complicated geometry at the intersection. So, coming to the project background. The intersection is currently a stopped control intersection. We don't have any civilization or other elements at the intersection. And last week, Australia's currently a four lane north and a five lane south divide the neighborhood collector. And Normandel street is a four lane north and two lane south commercial collector. We currently do not have any pedestrian facilities at the intersection. We don't have any sidewalks or radio ramps to help the pedestrians cross the intersection safely. And we have a really unsafe geometry and then unusual layout at the intersection that provides safety concerns based on considering the site distance as well as. The geometry on where to go actually. So the project goal is really to improve the safety and operations at the intersection and make it safe for both the drive for both the drivers as well as pedestrians. So this is the existing site conditions. As you can see, it's really complicated geometry. I was lost at this intersection once. So. I know it really needs improvement. Coming to the proposed improvements, we will be designing, sorry, we already designed a multi in roundabout at this intersection and we will also be installing pedestrian facilities along with it. We'll have accessible ramps crosswalks and sidewalks at all corners of this intersection. And. We will also be providing a left and lean on South Lake last week was straight to provide an access to Boba stop gas station. This project is funded using 24 18 bone program and the estimated cost for construction is around 2.3 million. So this is a picture of our proposed improvements. We will be installing around about it's a teardrop shaped roundabout. And we'll be improving all the links and also in the sidewalks and crosswalks. Coming to the project schedule, we completed our design in July of 2021. We did with the project out in August of 2021. And we are estimating to start construction in January 2022 after the holidays. And we anticipate the duration of construction to meet 10 months. So we will be mostly done with the construction around October, November of 2022. I went to the frequently asked questions. I left the slide as is to go over a few questions that would be generally frequently asked questions on such projects. One will be, will there be any roadway closures during construction? If so, what will that do? So, we won't be closing this intersection completely at any time. So we will have traffic. We won't be going through there. It won't be, we won't be having the whole intersection open. It would be phased out, but we will have access to all the lanes at all times. The next question is why will there be a wooded left and land on South Las Vegas trails. We have a street that's right next to the intersection we have chopped up tail. That's very close to the intersection right now, and it has a left and lane. If you provide a left and lane that's so close to the intersection, it would hold up the traffic in the intersection and will queue up the intersection. So that's the reason we will be moving that left and lane to a bit away from the intersection to avoid traffic queuing up at the intersection. So those were the two frequently asked questions that we can have on such projects. And that is all I have today. Lastly, I want to share our contact information. This is with a raw again. I'll be the city project manager. You can reach out to me if you have any questions during construction or any concerns. You can always reach out to me. I have my email ID in here and my phone. And Danny Craig from rep corn is a contractor project manager. And that's his email ID and phone number. And this, this presentation has been recorded and it will be posted on the project website. So if you miss our information here, you could always go back and get the information from there. So that is all I have and if you have any questions, I leave the contact information slide open. Thank you, Shweta. Does anyone have any questions? You can either unmute yourself and or type them in the chat. And again, you know, if you have questions going forward, the contact information for Shweta as well as the contractor representative project managers on the screen. And Miss Allen recorded this and we'll make it available as Shweta talked talked about so you can go back and watch this later on if you if you'd like to. But the floor is definitely open for questions and we're here to kind of answer whatever questions you have. I have a question. I thought that that intersection is key to both fire station 23 and the city bus system. Will that impact their services while it's being redone. I don't think we will be impacting the bus service and the fire service through the intersection because we'll have lanes open to go either direction at all times. It would be a stock control intersection. So it might impact maybe it will cause a little bit of delay, I would say, but it won't have any major impacts. Adam, can you add to it if you have anything else. Yeah, you, you said it correctly. Yeah. So we're during the phasing of the construction will be finalized by the contractor, but the way that we stipulated it, they're not allowed to close any direction of traffic. A minimum of 1 lane will be able to get by at all times. So, and if a bus stop is impacted, I would just move within a few feet just to get out of the the intersection. So no significant impacts to either 1. Thanks. Is now question excellent question and response. Any other questions. Question. Is this impacting why we don't have street lights on this end of Las Vegas trail right now. Is that going to get put back up. I'm not sure about that on why we don't have it right now, but we'll be surely installing streets with this project. I can check with our transportation management group on existing street lights. I'm not exactly sure about the existing conditions. One was to knock down so I'm pretty certain that that's why they're out, but I just thought because it was taking so long. Maybe it was because you all had something going already. But this is a really tough part of town and we need a street lights back. Thank you. We will definitely reach out to our transportation management team. And kind of get some information on that and see, see if we can get that rectified. So, so I didn't realize that it was not down, but we definitely will. We'll look into this for you with the folks who manage that. So thank you for bringing that up. Definitely. I'm not saying y'all knocked them down. It was knocked down by somebody. Yes, ma'am understood. Martin, this is Jeff. One thing about street pole or traffic. Street light poles in particular, especially if they've been damaged and knocked down is we're we're experiencing fairly significant delays in getting new poles. So it could that could just that could be one of the reasons why it hasn't happened yet because everything's been a little bit backlogged on street lights. Could you please put up the map again of the layout of the roundabout. I'm curious about how much property. Like the Bobo stop in the dentist office and that is is taken in. It looks fairly small. Would you consider that similar to the clear fork roundabout. There's much bigger. We are not impacting any property lines. As such, we are almost staying within the city right of it for this project. We don't have any right of it takes on either corner. Are you here with the clear for roundabout. Yes, I am. I'm not exactly sure if it would be, I think it would be almost of a similar size. Adam, can you come for. Because that one is very manageable and not as. Overwhelming as say the roundabout or the circle at 377, which. Really throws a lot of people off. It seems to work and what. Sorry, I'm not familiar with that particular roundabouts. Clear fork or the 377 highway 377. The clear for 1. The 1. That goes. Between Brian or I'm sorry, between human and Brian urban. It's small. It's very manageable. It's the hospital. The retail development. About the Chisholm trail. It's a key for it was ranch. I think that would be a smaller 1 than this 1. But just wanted to confirm. Yeah, and I think I think they're similar size. But when you compare this to. The traffic circle. I think you're referring to the traffic circle. You know, with the predominant path there. It's much smaller than what you find at Wetherford circle. So just in terms of comparison. That, that Wetherford circle is much larger. Yes. So this, this looks good because I've lived here for 50 years. And I've never understood who designed that intersection. Understood. We hope to solve that here. Thank you. We have any other questions? Chat to chat. No questions in the chat. I just want to say. Thank you for doing this. And I'm very disappointed that there's not more. Participation out here. Can we actually print this page? Yes, the presentation will be available on the project website. For you to print it. Or if you could just provide me your email on the chat. I'll send it to you. My email. I did fill it out, but I can put it on the chat. If you could put it on the chat. You got it girl. Thank you. I'll also put. We'll make that one page of PDF and we'll put it on the project page. So people don't have to watch the. The entire presentation to see that particular image. We can do that too. Where would you like to be? I'm going to share the link. Just a moment. You can go to the port with Texas dot gov and just search. Las Vegas trail or Norman Dale. But. I am. In chat. I'll spend as much time. But I am. In chat as well. So if you see the chat, you can. Copy that link to go right to the page. Thank you, Jeff. And Shweta, you see Miss Berry's email. On the chat as well. Yes. Awesome. So definitely, if there are no more questions, you know, we appreciate your attendance. And being involved, you know, what's happening in our community. And so. We thank you very much. And I know council member crane appreciates you and appreciates this project as well. So. There are no more questions. I guess we can adjourn the meeting. And again, you have the link to the project page. And we'll make all of this available to you. And again, just thank you so much for attending and have a great evening. Thank you, Martin. Thank you all. Thank you. Everyone. Have a good day. Thank you. You too.