 I think this should be good to go. If you have any questions during any meeting, would you please type in on the chat box so that we can take that question at the end of the presentation? But I guess we can go ahead and start. Yeah, good evening, everyone. This is a pre-construction community meeting for East Fourth Street and East Fourth Street federally funded on-street bike lane project. City project number 102601. Again, my name is called Thresta. I'm the project manager with the TPW Capital Delivery. And Kim Lee-Hon and his associates is the design consultant for the project. Today is February 15, 2024. It's about 6.35 p.m. The agenda for today's meeting is, I'm going to briefly discuss about project background and its objectives. And I'll also talk about existing and proposed typical section. In other words, what they look like today versus what they will look like after the construction gets complete. And we're also going to talk about a project schedule and construction duration. And we'll also talk about the construction funding. And we'll also discuss a little bit about what do we expect during construction. And we'll share the contact information if you need to call City. Now, during the construction, who to call to, we'll share the contact information and we'll take any question that you may have at the end of the presentation. That being said, before I begin, I think I'd like to introduce you to the project team. Today we have, I believe to the Kim Lee-Hon, Abhishek Achary. He's the engineer breaker for the project. I also see Brandon. He's a traffic engineer with the Kim Lee-Hon and Associates. Well, I see William. He's with the TPW construction office. Let me see, what else do I see? I believe I see Chad Allen. He's a TPW program manager, capital delivery program manager. Manager, I think that's all I see from the project team. I guess we can go ahead and begin. Before that, I believe I see Reto from the council member Janet's office. Reto, do you have anything else that for the attendees or the project team before we begin? No, sir. I'm just here to listen in along with everyone and we just want to thank everybody for participating in this meeting tonight. So we just look forward to the presentation. Thank you. All right, thank you. Let's see who else is. Okay, let me go deep down into the project. Project Limit, it's a project background and objective, project limit. The project is on, the corridor of the project is in East 4th Street and East 4th Street and the limit is on the I-35 in the West and the Hawthorne Road in the East. This project was initiated in the 2019 Active Transportation Plan and the goal of the project is, there are a lot of goals for this project. The first one is connectivity. What I mean by connectivity is this East 4th Street, there is already a bike lane that comes from the 4th Road downtown through the East 4th Street. We terminate at the Sylvania Avenue. What we are trying to do is basically continue that bike lane all the way to the Hawthorne Road and there is only an off-street shared use path that connects the Gateway Park. It's basically connecting downtown to the Gateway Park. And for the bigger picture says, I don't know if you have heard about DFW Discovery Trail System, which connects Dallas downtown to 4th Road downtown. That trail system goes through the Gateway Park. Anyone that's trying to use the bike lane be using that trail system. When they get to the Gateway Park, this project will act as an alternative route for them to get to the 4th Road downtown. That's the connectivity is one of the goals. Innovation is another goal for this project. There are three signalized intersections within the project corridor, which one is at East 4th Street and Sylvania. Another one is East 4th Street and Riverside. And next one is at East 4th Street and Beats Street. We are going to modify those signalized intersections with the bike signal head. And this is going to be the first in the region actually. And we see together approval from Federal Highway Administration to use this signal head. What, how does it work? It's basically currently those detection systems that doesn't detect the bicyclist. With this modification, the detection system will detect not just the vehicle, but also the bicyclist. And the intersection will operate accordingly. And this is basically innovation that we are planning to use. We are using on this project and it's first in the region. The safety is another goal of the project. I don't know if you know, in 2017 there was one fatality within the project corridor of the bicyclist and two injured. And we also collected some speed data and that suggested that there are a lot of speeding issue in this project corridor by doing roadway diet, which we will be calming the traffic issue that we have regarding the speeding. And we are also, since we are also installing none other really, and so we are also providing buffer space between the travel lane and a bike lane, which is gonna be much safer for the bicyclist to go through this corridor. And inclusive is another goal of this project. Currently the street right away are used only for vehicle and pedestrian, but by providing on the street bike lane, if we are, the street right away is gonna use for all motor transportation, whether by foot, bicycle or roadway. And another goal of the project is safe and comfortable user experience. Again, by providing buffer space between the travel lane and bike lane, the bicyclist would feel much safer, will have much safer and comfortable user experience while they are traveling through this corridor of the project. And facility transition is another goal of the project where bicycle is at the Halton Road and there's the off-street shared use path continues from the Halton Road to the Gateway Park. We are gonna be installing pedestrian hybrid week and to provide the safe and transition between the on-street and off-street bike lane. Now I'm gonna talk about what the existing section look like versus what they're gonna look like after the construction is completed. We divided this corridor into three different segment. One is from I-35 to Sylvania and the next one is from Sylvania to Bit Street and the third one is from Bit to Halton Road. The one that I am sharing on the screen is for the section between I-35 to Sylvania. One, the segment that you see on your left is what they look like today. What it is is like there is a three-lane street with one lane each way with a shared left lane on the middle and the existing also has a bike lane as well on the fourth street from service road to the Tel Aviv. There is only a bike lane with terminus at the Tel Aviv. But once the construction gets completed it's still gonna be three lanes with the one lane each way with a shared lane in the middle with the bike lane on the outside only different it is gonna be is we are gonna provide buffer space between the travel lane and a bike lane by reducing the width of the roadway. And we're gonna by doing this that the bicyclist would feel much safer will have much safer and comfortable user experience while riding a bike through this corridor. Close this up. Let me go to the next slide. Okay, next segment is between Sylvania Avenue to not be straight. One on the left, the typical section right now is it's a four lane, two lane each way. But once the construction gets completed it's gonna be two lane, one lane each way and the bicycle and the outside lane is gonna be converted to the bike lane and there's gonna be a lot of buffer space between the bike lane and the travel lane for the safe and comfortable user experience. Again, I mentioned earlier regarding a lot of speeding is the issue that we have seen through the speed data and by doing this road dining it will calm the traffic and reduce the speeding issue that we currently have in this corridor. Third segment is from B-Street to Holton Road. It's currently it's five lane, two lane each way with a shared lane, shared left and lane in the middle. But once the construction gets completed it's gonna be three lane, one lane each way with the shared left and lane in the middle with outside lane converting into the bike lane with a lot of buffer space between the travel lane and bike lane. Again, it's for the safer and comfortable user experience for the bicycle as well as calming the traffic issue that regarding the speed that we have today. I might add from a construction standpoint granted the markings on the pavement are just virtually a few mils but having that reflectivity there with the buffer in it not only makes the bicyclists feel safer but it gives a boundary for the motorists. Yeah, thanks William. Yeah, again, this is the innovation that I was talking earlier that the three intersections within the project corridor we are gonna be installing signal head with the bike signal. This is gonna again, it's gonna be the first in the region and detection system would also detect bicycle not only the vehicle once this gets modified once the project gets completed then it will detect bicyclists and then intersection would operate accordingly. And those intersections are again, I mentioned earlier is the modern fourth street in Pennsylvania that's gonna get upgraded fourth street and Riverside Drive that's also gonna get upgraded with this new signal innovative element that we are using for the project and each fourth street and a big street. And facility transition that that's another one is we're gonna be installing the red line that you see here is the only street bike lane it's part of our project which is this is the Alton Road here and this green line is the off street here this path we recently installed I believe it was completed like last year and this is already there the off street here this path is already there we by providing PSB there's gonna be safer transition between the on street and off street we'll provide safer transition between on street and off street. Innovative element I mentioned earlier the detection system that gonna be installed at this intersection will also count the bicycle count also collect the bicycle count which we can use for the future of project for the request for the funding to cause and for the future project. Again, the signal head is another with three different intersection as Sony in the picture here whether the signal head is gonna have bicycle this is again first in the region that we are implementing as part of this project and transition facility at Alton Road for the on street versus to transition from on street to off street from off street to on street. Now I'm gonna talk about the construction duration contractor will mobilize at the last week of this month and they have about nine months to complete this project regarding construction funding it's the most of the construction funding it's from federal fund to almost like 2.3 million dollars was of the construction was from federal fund and remaining a little more than $600,000 was from city bond fund. Now what do we expect during construction? All the work will be completed during the day. The lane closure are permitted only during non peak hours various daily lane closure is expected and expect delay while lane are closed and at this point we don't anticipate any detour out needed for the project. These are the project contact information if you need to contact city or during construction you can either call William with the city inspector for this project his number is 817 392 8309 or you can contact myself my name is 817 395 4013 and could that being said that concludes it and that with the slide now we are open to take any question that you may have. Can someone please read if there was any question on the chat box can someone William or someone from the community please read that question. Yes Abhishek we have a question in here has the water sewer and drainage lines been updated in these fourth street road sections so the streets won't be tore up multiple times. Can you read that question again please? Has the water sewer and drainage lines been updated in these fourth street road sections so the streets won't be tore up multiple times? Yeah we are not hearing any roadway here all we are doing is converting existing lane existing outside lane to the bike lane all we are doing is a lot of payment marking and signage work is happening but I'm not aware of any water and sewer project that's coming near future. I hope I answered your question but I am not aware of any water sewer project and near future at this location at this corridor. Again we are not there won't be a lot of excavation work as part of this project most of the work is going to be converting outside lane to the bike lane. We have another question will all this work be done in the existing right of way or will easements be required? Yeah most of the work we are going to have will be within the existing right of way but where we are doing signal modification we had to acquire some not really a right of way pedestrian easement and we had to acquire some pedestrian easement at the intersection and that easement needed for this project is already acquired and the contractor is good to go. That looks like that was our last question. Let's wait for a few more minutes and see if anyone has any questions. If you have any questions you can use yourself. Can we just ask a question Orly? Sure, sure, yeah, go ahead. I was wondering about the pedestrian and bicycle access to the east from Alton Road down to Oakland. I've never understood on the couple of bridges in that little section there from Alton Road to Oakland. It says no pedestrians. I have never really understood that. Does will this affect anything there? Okay, yeah I think I know what you were talking about there is no on-street bike lane. However, from Alton Road to what was the next street that you mentioned Oakland, right? Oakland. Yeah, there is already an off-street shared use path that we recently installed that goes to the Gateway Park. All you have to do is go through the Gateway Park. It's not gonna be, the alignment is not gonna align with the street. There is an off-street shared use path and we recently installed from Alton Road to the Gateway Park and from Gateway Park, there is already a trail system that connects to the Oakland street. I mean, I can share my screen. So you have to go all through the park? Yes, you have to go through the Gateway Park because we already had that. Yes, you have to go through the Gateway Park. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Any more questions? I mean, you can unmute yourself and ask any question that you may have. I understand you to say that this is the first in the region of this use of these bicycle signals? Yes, sir, that is correct. Yes, first in the reason with the bicycle signal head, yes, and we city got approval from Federal Highway Administration to use this type of technology. Do you think there'll be much of a learning curve? I wonder how readable those intricate bicycle logos or whatever you want to call them designs will be? Is there going to be any public outreach to try to explain that you may start seeing more of these in the future? Yeah, we can consider that. Yeah, I mean, and COG is doing the same thing. But we can do more outreach yet. You make a very good point. Yeah, I can talk to the senior CPA at PPW and see what else we can do to educate people regarding this innovation that we are implementing in this project. And when we, when city applied to use this technology, the city applied for the entire, I was looking at the application earlier and approval notice from the FFWA. We applied for the entire city of Portwood City Limit, not only for this project. I mean, that tells me that we may consider another location as well. But this is going to be the first one within the city of Portwood, not only Portwood, but for the region. But yeah, you make a good point. I'll bring this up and see what else we can do to outreach and educate people regarding this new innovative element that we're implementing in this project regarding the single head with the bike single. I mean, it should be pretty simple forward with just that instead of solid green, red, and yellow, it's just going to have bike. But at the same time, the safety thing, right? I mean, we'll check it by then and see. I think once a few of these are out there or once they've been installed for some period of time, people will begin to figure it out, sort of like they did with the flashing left turn arrows. But I would hate for somebody to a driver to think they had to ride away, because the light was green and it was really just green for a bike user and something bad happened. So if you guys can do some outreach in that area, I don't know that it'll solve the problem completely, but it might help a little bit to minimize people with them. Yeah, I agree, I agree, yeah, yeah, I agree. We'll look into the awesome that what else we can do is regarding upgrades, maybe, yeah, we'll look into it. Thanks for your advice. Any other questions? Just to kind of comment on what Dan has brought up, is I'm sure there will be some learning curve in it because this is foreign, I've lived down in Austin and stuff, I have never seen this signal head before. So it's gonna be new to a lot of people, but I think the more public service we have about it to say this is something new to familiarize the traveling public with it would be the best thing. I don't know how we're gonna go about doing that, but I agree there's probably gonna be some sort of a learning curve. Yeah, maybe putting, yeah, I'm thinking of putting some video and things like that on the TD website for the project website, you know. Yeah, we'll look into what awesome that we have regarding our outreach. I think that you made a very good point. Dan, I mean, we'll look into it. And William, thank you very much. Is there any other questions? Well, on the section between Riverside Drive and Beach Street going east, I think we'll have to, y'all, where it's two lanes, one of those lanes is almost always filled with parked cars. I think we'll just have to make that no parking. Oh, okay, yeah, okay, I know which one you're talking about. What's gonna happen? Yeah, I did not put it in here. Wherever the people, like there are a couple of segments within this corridor that the outside lane is gonna be used as a shared lane. I think I may not have in front of it right now, but the people would be still parking there, park there, but that lane is gonna be shared between the parked car and the bike, that the bumper space is gonna be a lot smaller. Does that make sense? Right now, if you look at here, it's the similar in terms of, let me go back, not this one here. Four lane with it, it is outside lane, it is still gonna be parked space, right? We have a bumper space of six feet, that six feet may be reduced to maybe two foot. I'm not sure, I have to go back and check it. It's just that bumper space at those locations is not gonna be as big as it's on in here, six foot. But yes, those parking, we are aware of that location and we are using, the people are using that as a parking space outside lane and they're still gonna be considered as a parking space, but it's just the bumper space is gonna be a lot smaller at those locations. Okay, because that lane is completely unusable because of all the parked cars and trucks all on there, where those houses are. That is correct, yes, I mean, but when they park it, I'm hoping they are gonna park close to the curb so that there's enough room for the bicyclist and the bumper space. I think I have to go back and exact look at it. The bumper space is gonna be, unless the engineer for the project remembers on top of their head, do you know at those locations, what's the weight of the bumper space? I did not know there was a bumper space, if you're asking me. No, I was asking. Yeah, this is what I'm saying with Kim Leone. I believe there's two-feet bumper space on the proposed condition. So yeah, on the existing condition, there is no bumper space. So what on that section is basically two-feet bumper space and then like a shared area for the parking plus bike lane. Does that, I mean, do we answer your question? I know you're concerned about, but there are some segments within the project or within some location on this between, I believe I can go back, if people park their car, we are not taking the way they are parking their car, all we are doing is we are still using that space, but it's gonna be shared between the parked car and the bicycle instead of being bumper space, being like six-foot wide, it's just gonna be two-foot wide at those locations. Okay, we often drive down that way and that outside lane is just unusable all the time. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Anybody else has any questions? Okay, I'll take that as a no. If that is the case, again, we are really, really excited for this project, being the significant innovative elements that's part of the project. I'm really excited. I'm hoping everybody RQ that if there is no more question, then we, that concludes today's presentation. This presentation is gonna be recorded and maybe a week, within a day or two, or maybe a week, I'm not exactly sure. It will be uploaded to the CD website, CD project website. Again, thank you, everyone, for joining and any questions you have from now and during construction, just call me at any time. I'll try to answer your question that's specific. Thank you, everyone.