 Reminder, this presentation will be recorded. I also want to take the opportunity to thank council member Gray. I see that she has joined us tonight. So I want to thank her for joining us for the meeting. So good evening and thank you for joining us tonight for the community meeting for rising a road at. Interstate highway 35 W the city is excited to be making some paving and traffic signal improvements. At this intersection, I can tell you for sure I'm I'm JT Aldridge by the way. Uh, and I'm the city project manager for this project. I'm excited. Uh, because this is a major milestone for us as moving into construction. These these improvements we're going to talk about tonight. Are going to begin construction soon and it's a it's a big milestone for us to. To reach within the city, this project we've been working on it for about 3 years now. So it's very exciting to get it to this point. So tonight the agenda will be pretty brief. I will. Go over the project location map just to make sure we all understand exactly what we're talking about. We'll discuss what the existing conditions are at this location and I'll spend some walk of the time talking about the description. Of the project, the proposed improvements that we will make. And I will give you an idea of the construction schedule and then we will have time for questions there at the end. So this is a very zoomed out map. But I wanted to show you and just in relation to downtown Fort Worth and you see where I'm highlighting here. The project is south of downtown Fort Worth south of I 20. And so it's really it's located between I 20 and FM 1187. So it is where rising a road crosses I 35. W and this project location map is zoomed quite a bit. In so that in this red circle over here, you can see the intersection itself of rising or an I 35. And that's the project location that we'll be talking about tonight. And this gives you a little bit of perspective just down the road to the west. Just down rising a road to the west is David El Walker elementary school. So if this gives you hopefully this give you some perspective on the project location. So we'll be talking about the intersection here rising or an I 35. So I'm going to go over just a few pictures of what the existing intersection looks like. And the existing condition. We have a two lane asphalt roadway for rising a road at this intersection. And it is controlled by stop signs. So it's basically a four way stop sign controlled. Intersection and the the existing intersection. And when I when I say that both intersections at both frontage roads. These the existing intersections experience significant delay right vehicular delay. In fact, we categorize it as a level of service. E so when we talk about level of service, that's just we give it a grade just like you would in school, like a A, B, C, D, E and an F. And so you can see these these intersections operate currently at a level of service E. So they're just above the worst grade that they could be. And this photo here is looking at it's looking westbound from the east side of I 35. So it's looking back underneath the bridge there, where you can see there are also two existing lanes underneath the bridge of underneath I 35. So this slide is where I likely spend the bulk of the time. This is the proposed improvements that the city's going to make. And the biggest thing is we're going to add traffic signal at each intersection with with the frontage road. So Risinger and the southbound frontage road. And then over at the northbound frontage road, we're going to construct traffic signals at those two intersections. And along with that underneath the bridge, we're going to widen Risinger road a bit in order to get a third lane that will be a dedicated left turn lane. So if you're headed eastbound on Risinger and you want to go northbound on I 35, particularly the probably the morning commuter traffic headed toward Fort Worth would be making this dedicated left. So we're going to add a dedicated left turn there. In addition, the lane right next to it, the eastbound lane, will be what we call a shared use lane. So from that lane, you'll be able to make a left turn as well, or go straight through to go eastbound east of I 35. So that allows essentially two lanes of traffic to turn left and really helps out the operation of this of this entire these two intersections together. You know, they're so close. They work together. So going east of I 35 of the frontage road, you'll see essentially we just have what we call a transition through here. So we're just we're just narrowing the pavement back down to connect to the existing two lane pavement further to the east. And another thing is underneath I 35 that will be constructing is a sidewalk that will cross underneath I 35 under the bridge and go from intersection to both from from the northbound frontage road to the southbound frontage road and it'll be on the north side of Risinger Road. There'll be a sidewalk there. And so that will include some pedestrian ramps at the corners of Risinger and the frontage roads with pedestrian crossing markings installed as well. And the one thing that I want to point out is that on this west side of I 35 the city has been working with a developer, a developer that is planning to develop the southwest corner of Risinger and I 35 and the developer has plans to construct Risinger Road from Technology Boulevard all the way to the frontage road of I 35 the southbound frontage road. And their plan is to construct that Risinger Road as a four lane divided concrete section with a raised median between you know down the middle. So that is something the city has been working with the developer on what I want the reason I mentioned it is because obviously that project would would connect to the project that that we're talking about tonight but it is a separate project and it is led by a developer through the city. So so I don't have a lot of information on that project but I do believe that the timing of it should be similar to the work that we're proposing here at these intersections and I'll talk about that the schedule when we get to that slide but the the important thing is the the traffic signals going in and the widening underneath the bridge with the with an additional left turn and so that by making these improvements you remember the level of service that I talked about earlier that that will improve the level of service at these intersections to a level of service B so it gets us almost to the best level of service which would be a that you can get to and that's really that's really excellent to get to a level of service B and that that is for projected traffic volumes in 2027 so that is we take the existing traffic volumes that that are out there today and we we grow them or we increase them at four percent annual growth knowing that traffic increases and then we we come up with this the signal operation and we studied it for the year 2027 so we get excellent operation with these traffic signals so in this slide I'm just showing simply a recap of what I just discussed the the description of the project and just is the widening of Risinger Road pavement underneath the I-35 bridge we are constructing a concrete sidewalk on the north side of Risinger Road underneath the I-35 bridge we're going to of course install the traffic signal at the northbound and the southbound frontage road at I-35 and of course this will include pavement markings and a new signage of course as needed and then includes a couple of city utility adjustments and those are just necessary adjustments that are that are needed to be made with the with the paving improvements and so this slide again a brief overview of our construction schedule so the city has selected a contractor select maintenance and the city has entered into an an agreement a contract with this contractor and the construction duration is anticipated to be about four months with construction starting in September and so you should see construction starting in this location right after or shortly after Labor Day and then that will put us ending construction just after the first of the year January of 2021 so about a four month timeframe and with that we are going to be wrapped up to questions so as I mentioned if you have a question please type it into the chat function and we'll make sure we answer those and then again if you're on the phone only we will we'll give you an opportunity to ask a question if you if you want to do that on the on the phone line there are no questions yet JT we'll give you a couple of minutes sure Jeff I guess we can unmute the callers while we wait for any other questions I'll start unmuting we have one we have five call-in users so I'm just going to go ahead and unmute them all if you're on the phone only and you would like to ask a question just let us know your name so we know who we're talking to and then kind of go one at a time so we don't we try not to talk over each other okay if you're on the phone you're now unmuted hey I'm not not hearing any questions coming in from the call-in users if there's anybody else at this time that's muted that's on another way feel free to unmute yourself if you have a question for JT chat question feminine JT will the intersection be closed completely during construction or will there be partial usage of the intersection so the I believe the intersection should be open all the time there should always be partial usage of the intersection traffic should be able to get through there now I will say that particularly west of I-35 west along rising road it's very narrow right there and there is a we did include a detour plan in case the contractor needs to close down for it would be very brief very short duration but if the contractor needs to be able to close down the particularly the west side of I-35 west you know rising a road west of 35 there is a detour plan so it is possible that that could be closed for a brief time I say brief I mean it could be several several days and there would be a detour plan put in place if that happens okay yeah I like that question right yeah this is Philip and um I was just wondering I use rising road very very frequently and one thing I've noticed is that there seems to be water I came on the meeting late you may have answered the question before but I don't know the spring beneath the roads or what but it seems to me that each time they repeat the surface before the road would then sink I don't know you know there's a water spring there or they are drifting those when they are doing the construction of the road or not what I'd like to know is is there a spring there and is the contractor focused on making sure that once the road is completed that it does not sink like has been done previously you know each I mean it takes maybe less than a year before it starts the road going down so we don't want a situation whereby you know the road start deteriorating a few years is that happening right at the intersection or is it further west it's closer to the railroad track in the middle where they have repaired it so you know I'm assuming that the project is widening the entire rising road is that correct no you you did you missed the beginning of the presentation right I certainly did I mean I missed a lot of it so that's that's why I'm asking these questions if you have addressed it again already then I apologize no not at all that's okay it's that this project is located right at the intersection with I-35 so it's really it's rising or right at I-35 we're installing some traffic signals at the frontage roads and we're widening rising or underneath the bridge at 35 but this is this one this project will not address rising or back to the west and will not address that area that you're talking about okay so there's another chat question will the two lanes leading to I-35 be widened as well and the answer is one more let me let me make sure I'm not sure I understand the question exactly so if the two lanes leading to I-35 um this is Nedra Robinson can I ask a question now sure okay so um between you know Crowley Road so you get to I-35 will that whole section be expanded or just a section that you pointed to like has David L Walker elementary okay so the the segment of rising are from Crowley Road or FM 731 JT can you bring that slide back oh sure for both improvements thanks okay so the the segment of rising are from Crowley Road which is you know you know to the to the west all the way really all the way over to the frontage road that segment of rising are is it is included in the city's master thoroughfare plan so it's included to be widened to a I believe it's a four lane um arterial thoroughfare street so it's in the city's master plan it's in the plan for the future but that segment from Crowley all the way to the frontage road here at I-35 is is not does not have funding authorized for it currently okay thank you the improvements of this project are limited to basically the intersection of the approaches of the intersection so just a few hundred feet east and west of the intersection hey JT would you let everyone know when the the other section that we're working on from Hewland to Crowley on Risinger would be kind of a quick update on that and when we expect that to open okay so Jeff yeah you're referring to the we have under construction currently we have just a section of Risinger from from McCart Avenue over to Crowley Road and that's under construction and we're anticipating that to be open well I'll say hopefully by the end of this year but we'll also say January early next year so in the next four four to five months you should see a lot of concrete pavement being installed in that section thank you so we have another question JT um someone lives on West Risinger Road and is wondering whether they'll still be able to get to I-35 in the mornings they're just they just live west of Hampton yes so and yes you should still be able to get to I-35 in the mornings again unless the contractor needs to close Risinger Road for some reason and and so they will they will set up a detour and you know you would you probably know the area you're probably familiar with it you would you would need a detour up to Sycamore School Road so it is possible that there could be a closure but it it would again it would be brief maybe for just a minimal number of days but it definitely will not be closed down for for months that's the last question we have in the chat we'll just give people a few minutes and if there are no more questions we will adjourn we appreciate your patience folks I know this is a little awkward having everybody silence and just being able to type your questions and not having you know real-time feedback from from from all of you so we really appreciate your your patience in this very unusual times hopefully we've been able to convey the basic information that you guys need we've been able to answer your questions tonight well if there are no more questions I think we will adjourn JT will you flash your contact information do you have your contact information there I don't recall I do let me get to that last slide there that yes that's my email address and my phone number if you have any questions in the future please feel free to contact JT and we again we appreciate your attendance tonight and we want to thank Council Member Gray who attended joined us tonight as well and that's all for tonight thank you very much