 project. So my name is Alejandra Yala. I do go by Alex and I'm the senior project manager for this Carmel Marine Creek Road Reconstruction and Widen project for the great city of Fort Worth. We do have council member Carlos Flores in the house. So if he would like to say something council member we'd greatly appreciate it. Dore can everybody hear me? Yes sir. Okay I don't know can't seem to get my okay there goes the video all right well good afternoon or I should say good evening everyone thank you for joining us here. I'm very pleased that we're able to still reach out to folks even though we are starting to get out of COVID from the recovery end of things but it's so important to keep people connected virtually is a great way to make that outreach and I'm pleased to see that we have some good attendance here I made some outreach via Facebook and also phone calls to get people involved with this because we want to ultimately hear what your input is on the front end instead of the tail end it helps us you know deliver a better product. So thank you very much Alejandra and Jeffrey and please continue. Thank you and right now is the best time for us to to present this to to the residents of the area because we're only at about 30% design and that's what I'm going to present to you tonight and with that I'm going to get started. So I'm going to give you a little agenda for this project I'm going to introduce project team I'm also going to let you know what my role is in the project I'm going to give you a project map and an overview the project scope I'm also going to go over the project schedule and the budget and contact information and at the end we will do questions also if you do not wish to speak you can also type in your questions in the chat box and what's going to happen is we'll compile all of these questions and please provide your email even if you're not asking a question it'd be great if we can know who's out there provide your email and your your telephone number and we will definitely respond to every question that is asked tonight. So like I mentioned my name is Alejandra Ayala I am a professional engineer with the city oh no no so in tpw capital delivery and I am the project manager for this for this project I also on this on this presentation is Raul Lopez he's our city program manager and he is on the line as well we also have Dennis Ingram with Burns and McDonald and Haley Smith with Burns and McDonald they are both our our engineers on this project we we hired them to help us with the design of this roadway so my role as project manager for the transportation department I am the professional responsible for resource coordination procuring and managing contracts and services for the delivery of a project whose limits and scope are predefined by the transportation planners and also our consultant engineers they're the professionals responsible for the design and coordination of the resources needed for the survey right away acquisition utility relocations permit submittals bidding and construction management and ensuring the elements of the predefined scope are included in the final design our project limits are our former marine creek from both club road on the west all the way down to the marine creek parkway roundabout we are next to both club road which as any many of you know is is that is a textile roadway so we'll be doing coordination with them to make sure that our intersection improvements are our will you know coordinate well with whatever signal they may have going on at the intersection this project's about two miles just a little bit over two miles in length I'm just going to give you a brief overview of the project scope when we first started this design several years ago we were everybody heard we were only going to construct a roundabouts at at Huffines and Bowen Roberts and that has changed we are now doing a complete widening of the road between both the road and and the roundabout at Marine Creek Parkway we are going to put in a four lane divided roadway with the with the future expansion of six lanes if needed we're going to put in a new traffic signals at Bowen Roberts Road and Huffines Boulevard we're also going to put a new traffic signal at Crystal Lake near the elementary school we're also going to modify the traffic signal at Bowen Club Road as well this corridor will have street lights we'll have sidewalks on on each side of the road and we're also constructing a new bridge adjacent to the existing bridge over Marine Creek which will be able to widen out to six lanes in the future if we need it and we're also going to be doing some modifications between the Marine Creek Bridge all the way over to Marine Creek Parkway after roundabout that section is actually going to be a flight lane section it's going to be asphalt it is going to have a center two-way light terminate it's also going to have street lights and in this this section of the corridor we'll only have sidewalks on the north side where the current development is located as that area across the street from that subdivision is developed in the future the sidewalks will be added so as many of you that drive this road everybody knows it's a two-lane country road with side road ditches and the way of you know what word that's booming right now it's it no longer has the capacity to carry the the amount of traffic that is needed so we need a wider road and these are just some of the pictures some of the challenges that we have on this roadway a lot of the drainage structures will be will be widened extended and improved in order for us to be able to convey that that run off off of the new road and currently there are no sidewalks or a center median on anywhere that the sidewalks come and go this is another picture of Carmel Marine Creek at Bowman's Roberts Road we have it we do have a really large drainage structure that runs diagonally across this intersection here that will have to make improvements too and you know the developer for the western rivers subdivision that Carly went up they they built their half of the road and it's currently being used and if you look at the picture on the right and you look at how you kind of get a glimpse of what the future is writing of this roadway it's going to look like with those nice white sidewalks on the end the intersection and how finds it currently does have a signal line but that seems to have improved to accommodate the more widened section and then you know the developer of the marine creek branch subdivision they did they also constructed their half of the roadway so what we're going to do is just we're just going to continue building the roadway north of of what they have built here's some more pictures as we continue east toward marine creek this is the section that is right past the marine creek bridge this is an area where our are the amount of right away that we have there is is a little narrower so through this area where we are going to add sidewalks much needed sidewalks on that north side of the road to connect pedestrian traffic to the future trails that are going to go in at marine creek and also to the school and the library just east of this intersection once again we just kind of have doing the structures that function well today but eventually all this will be modified with the new roadway expansion and we're going to get rid of these dead and sidewalks and providing a continuous trail for pedestrians so now I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what we're proposing to build in this slide you're going to see some some orange and yellow and green lines the the orange lines represent the the medians in the middle of the road your yellow lines are the driving surface the actually you know you're going to drive your car the actual street and then the green represent the actual sidewalks that are going to be constructed and and then here at bull club road you'll see a signal light because we are planning to put in life there and we are going to be required to obtain some right away from from the folks that that are directly to the north of the corridor so we're we're currently you know or we could do that we need to set our alignment and make sure that we have everything that we need before we start asking you know for right away acquisition and this is the section between bull club road and we're going we're going to be traveling east on these slides and then we come on to the bowman roberts intersection where we're going to put in a new traffic light here as well and here currently you know we do the developer of western bridge did build this side of the north side of the road but unfortunately that the aerials haven't caught up to the to the new construction and we're going to continue eastward toward bob hanger how finds boulevard well where we are going to construct a brand new signal there's a future daycare coming in and at this corner and we've already addressed our right away needs with them because we are going to require to build dedicated right turn lane for the folks that are traveling westbound to go northbound onto bob hanger road then and also the developer for this marine creek ranch development they also built their half of the road so what we'll be doing is just continuing where they left off so we'll continue eastbound as we approach crystal lake drive near parkview elementary as well as the northwest branch library we recently did we recently worked with our consultant burns in mcdonnell and we did ask them to do an analysis to warrant a signal at the center section and as many of you know one is needed there because of the high pedestrian traffic so we'll be adding a signal at this intersection and as we continue eastward this is the this is the beginning of the bridge right here as we go toward to marine creek parkway roundabouts and here's the other side of the bridge and as i noted earlier we are going to add a twin bridge next to that because we want to be able to in the future if this lane if this roadway ever needs to become six lanes we won't have to reconstruct a bridge we'll just be able to modify the section through there to accommodate those six lanes so that design and construct it to be to accommodate that the future expansion of this roadway and as we go toward the roundabout the marine creek roundabout parkway roundabout this is this area where we're next to the cape street and seal cove that existing area the existing subdivision there we are going to have this section here is actually going to be five lanes we are going to have a continuous middle lane for people that make a left into the subdivision I mentioned earlier we're only going to construct sidewalks on the north side of the street as this area to the to the north to the south develops then they'll be responsible for for constructing those sidewalks and then we end up the project at the marine creek parkway roundabout we are currently looking at ways burns and mcdonnell have have presented some ideas on how to make modifications at this roundabout to accommodate the amount of traffic that goes through there you know the city is aware of the issues with functionality of this roundabout during certain times of the day and we want to address those issues and make improvements to where I travel through this area you know mainly on the weekends and I see the challenges as well of trying to to make those movements sometimes because the traffic through there is not going to the design speed limit so we're going to look into doing some modifications to be able to push cars through there in a much more a much better way and I'm just going to give you a little brief overview of what these typical sections are going to look like you know the four-lane divided roadway as we we're going to build these these two added lanes to the outside we're going to have a nice wide 38 foot meeting in the middle and that's basically the area for the future of the future future laying widening if we need it and then as we go closer toward of just east of bowman roberts road we are we do have some right away constraints through there and that's why through there our our our sidewalks are are going to be reduced down to six feet wide through that through that through that area this is just a little cross-section of what it's going to look like through through the bridge and how we plan to to construct it and then we leave that area these two inner lanes for future widening and this is the five-lane section through the seal code for the five lane with the middle middle turn lane between stone water vent rail and the marine creek parkway so here's the project schedule and the budget we are burns at mcdonald recently completed 30 design and that's why we're we're sharing this meeting with with the public because this is the time for to get feedback from you all and we plan to finish the plans by the end of the year sometime in the winter 2021 probably december this will be we'll have a hundred percent plans completed we we do plan to to bid sometime in the spring of 2022 and start construction in the summer of 2022 and it's about a two-year construction schedule so we will be finishing sometime in the summer of 2024 all these all these dates are are tentative there's there's lots of things that can happen between today and uh the end of the year so we'll just keep pushing forward but i do want it to to to make a note that the the design this project is being designed but the actual construction is going to be contingent upon voter approval part of the terry county we're going to get funding from terry county and they're going to a bond election in november 2021 and also the fort war 2022 bond program that goes up before the voters in may of 2022 and that's why some of this construction starts we don't have definite dates because this like i said this is this will be upon your votes and and your word as to whether we're going to construct this this section of the street our project budget just the construction cost is about 30 million dollars to build this two-mile long corridor so that is the end of my presentation um this is my contact information here you want to take a picture of it with with your phone that would be great i am the project manager and that's my phone number and my email address and also we have our traffic engineer city traffic engineer his name is rosh gupta if you guys ever need to get a hold of him um to to you know ask questions or concerns this is his information and i want to thank all of you for taking the time to to be with us this evening this is a very important road for the area and we wanted to share what the city forward is doing to help improve the the the everyday commute of the traveling public and uh with that i am going to questions if anyone has any yes i have a question david mendis uh marine creek ranch h away so let's start on the boat club and and work our way east uh with questions uh what's the deciding factor on who gets a turn in who doesn't or businesses through that area i noticed that both fox fitness and the church don't have a turn in yet the socal school does and fox fitness and the church get way more traffic than the socal school denise would you like to to um to address that that denise with burns at mcdonough he's he is here yes i'm just trying to wave so i mean the you'll notice that at the daycare we have a turn lane right turn lane dedicated that's more driven by the overall traffic volume of the project corridor so based on the traffic study we develop an associated traffic volume so it needs to be turn lanes at the intersections primarily and uh our assessment didn't indicate at this point any need for a turn lane specifically for the fox fox fitness or the other location that you referenced um i mean i don't know how many cars you've seen go in and out of the fitness and the gymnastics there is a huge skew there in the amount of traffic like a very large skew there's a large amount of traffic i'm sorry to go ahead you just might want to look at the some updated number first uh that don't have to do within the last year where there wouldn't have been any traffic to that area for a fitness center or a gymnastics it's a packed facility cars come constantly i just think that a turn in there would be beneficial especially if you're going to need some of their land to expand this roadway but we can that was just a general question now moving on east to the intersection of bowman roberts and cromwell i noticed you have some work done on both the north and south ends of bowman is that going to be a lane expansion how's that going to work with the rest of bowman roberts being pretty much dilapidated and not being able to handle the traffic through there so they're going to run into what as far as an intersection goes so the improvements that we're currently calling for are obviously the widening of front wall marine creek road four lanes in east direction with the ability to widen out to six but we recognize the need to also improve overall the lane widths and lanes at the intersection so currently we're considering or we'll add in some additional lanes on bowman roberts left turn for north bound and southbound traffic uh that extends north and south of the intersection uh you know we have well well these improvements have bearing on i don't know bowman roberts being put on the master thoroughfare plan which it's currently not um and is in desperate need of repair and updating and for that one i may lean on um alex that's you know that's beyond what i can really speak to yeah if i may say something this is roblox i'm the uh program manager that oversees thoroughfares you know like this project so this project focuses on improvements of bowman marine creek at this time unfortunately yes we realize bowman roberts is in need of improvements it is not apparently a master thoroughfare plan master thoroughfare plan so that that's going to be the future for it yeah it is not a master thoroughfare plan i'm just saying you're modifying a road that is not within plan and i believe there is a city stipulation on that where it has to be on the master thoroughfare plan in order to be able to modify that road it could be wrong but that is coming from ppw i believe a couple years ago modified to widen the road it doesn't have to be in the master thoroughfare planning it just needs to uh to warrant the improvements based on a traffic study but it doesn't have to be in the master thoroughfare plan um so you're able to modify the road without a future plan no we we we can absolutely yes if we don't have a plan we could if the road is constricted that's all i need to know that it can be modified without a plan perfect uh so we onto the let me clarify we're not modifying bowman rovers at this time at this time because well you're modifying these parts of the intersection that lead up to the intersection so that would be modification right absolutely yeah that's that's all on the clarification on that so i can make sure to you know follow up later when someone tells me that they cannot do this because it's not on the master thoroughfare plan but obviously you can um so the intersection of huffines and chrome marine creek um would be my next question um i'm actually extremely happy that you decided to not go with a traffic circle on this it was supposed to be a traffic circle i think the whole time and not going with the traffic circle was the way to go the intersection here is probably the absolute perfect example of listening to people and modifying the design that is a just an absolute great aspect that you realize that traffic circles aren't the full answer to everything and you took that information and you you know went forward with it this would not work in this situation um now closer down you mentioned that there was going to be actually five loans there'd be a center turn in is there are any safety concern there with having that center turn lane notice that the rest of it doesn't have it so that'd be my main question in the future caramel marine creek is supposed to come down past this bridge head south and connect to the roundabout at longhorn this is an interim solution until i'm sorry you said i'm sorry you said caramel marine creek was coming around on all the plans i've seen longhorn is actually coming around to intersect with caramel marine creek that that's correct what you said is correct you're saying it's correct as well so caramel marine this section of caramel marine creek that has a five lane divided on divided section is not in the master thoroughfare plan so this is an interim improvement until caramel marine creek right after the bridge east of the bridge it's it curves south and then back east to connect directly to longhorn but that's that's a future improvement that we anticipate a developer to the laborer supposed to see because it goes through this on developed land just south of caramel marine creek okay and then on the roundabout at caramel marine creek and marine creek parkway i'm very glad to hear that you recognize there's some issues there and that there is some type of work to fix that it is a major problem we do still also have people breaking in the middle of the roundabout to allow people to yield that has caused several wrecks there as well the final question I have is about the bond election what's the contingency plan if the bond doesn't pass because there's there's talk of neither bond passing uh because of you know financial constraints of the people yeah let me elaborate on that a little further so the broad this caramel marine creek project is partially funded by the 2018 bond program but that funding the current funding is not enough to construct 30 million motor projects so even the money they found in the bond because the actual project got cut i'm sorry i didn't get the first part um money was found in the bond carlos can confirm this because the actual project was cut uh the roads through here were cut so they actually found money in the bond for other allocations so this project isn't part of the 2018 bond specifically this project is part of the 2018 bond and it as soon as it's put on there it will ever remain on there it was just not fully funded for the 2018 bond so 30 million dollar project wasn't funded in the 2018 bond the scope of the project was was not the stuff that we're talking about today so the project has evolved uh because we heard the community and you know the community is clamor to improve the roads and so we have what we have done is uh Karen county put out a uh call for project for the 2021 bond program which goes to election in november and we have applied for that and in addition to that then because that's a 50-50 program the county will provide 50 percent of the funding but the city has to provide the other 50 percent that's a condition so the city is providing the uh the city is um going to recommend the project for the 2022 cd bond program that goes to election in may 22 so both of those programs have to be approved by the voters now um project doesn't go you know they don't go to the uh voters individually the whole packet goes to the voters so if the entire bond package is passed then the promo line track is approved and it receives funding but it is all contingent on the bond passing correct on the entire program both and both bonds not just the one bond so it has both bonds have to pass for this to occur that's correct gotcha all right thank you very much sure and uh this is uh carl sorris coming in there what what david is referring to is again what monies we were able to get from the 2018 bond program we requested then 31 million dollars and we got 9 million approximately and we used some of that uh you know again to apply towards the design works but what he's asking uh he had posed before and uh you know it's it's a good question in the sense that well what is our plan if if the bond doesn't pass but it is a good distinction to make that the uh the matching 50% matching that we're hoping from tarrant county to get that would augment our dollars to see this full plan come through has to be realized i agree and you know to be realistic i still haven't seen a bond election that has been rejected in my lifetime that doesn't mean it cannot happen but like i said you know it's not like the voters are voting for crumb or increase they're voting for the entire package with all the other products across the city and so we don't know how that works with bond packages and who gets what money right well i'm yeah i'm speaking for the rest of the community i may not be aware of that so um so that that's that's a plan going forward um i'm looking i'm just gonna run down to some of these questions some of these questions will have to for example craig vacas he uh mentioned something about the bowman robert's bow as roundabout being completed before this starts i'm not familiar with the schedule on that particular roundabout so i i cannot answer your question right now but i'll look into it can actually answer that question if i may yes the project for that bowman robert's bow as roundabout it should be completed by the end of next year i believe or the middle of next year sorry i was on on that same project meeting about a month and a half ago okay well thank you for katie jackett says the civil entrance is permanently closed that's good to know um why not continue that last quarter mile to old den old decatur um you know right now we're just mainly focusing between vocalo brode and and marine creek parkway and so that is the scope of this project um will the traffic slide be synchronized so that drivers will hit red at each light we will definitely look at at progression through through the corridor to make sure that that that we're able to time those accordingly um so i will definitely put that on denis's list to make sure that we time the progression through through here um so people can hit those green lines um alex if i may say something it is important that we we understand as traffic signals are two-fold um we have to strike a balance between safety pedestrian and vehicle safety and then vehicle progression so you know while we strive to minimize vehicle delay we also have to keep in mind pedestrians especially when there is a school uh on the south side we we need to be able to provide a a time for the pedestrians to go across the street to go to the residences but have you um so we have to try to strike a balance between between those to safety and progression um has there been any thoughts to making a formal U-turn section instead of a certain intersection um i don't i don't think on because of the nature of this corridor that would that would be a a solution just because the way the traffic patterns are existing and another one is we found these two and done today i will i will look at the information that you provided on the chat i will send it to our engineer for him for him to look at um let's see okay so somebody did okay carlos alexa simpsons you're getting chat questions that i'm not getting so when you um when you send a chat we'll please send it to everyone so that we can take note of the questions and then answers we would appreciate it we will definitely do that and um and that those are all the questions that we have so so if if any of you ever have any questions yes this is uh carlos floris uh you know i had a little audio uh buffering issue just now and i didn't hear all the questions that you were seeing but it was one from katie jacob's a question about continuing on a quarter mile uh on this project to meet up with uh decatur now i think i remember reading that there was a separate project uh in that area for decatur so just uh notate that if uh if it's not included in that other project that i'm thinking about then that might be a consideration okay thank you anybody else have any more questions will you all have my my phone number and my email address if feel free to contact me if you have any concerns or suggestions with great i appreciate it and with that we're gonna we're going to call it a wrap and um i appreciate everyone's time for to come on tonight and um look what we have what we are planning to improve mobility through this area so with that i'm going to end the presentation and um stay safe and we'll see you all next time thank you looking forward to the next update thanks everybody