 Thank you all for taking the time out to join us this evening. I'd just like to talk to you tonight about our upcoming city of Fort Worth project. I'm one of the project managers in the transportation and public works department and the capital delivery team. And I'm the PM for this project, the intersection improvements proposed for Elta Mesa Boulevard and Crowley Road. As Jeff said earlier, I don't know if some of you may not have been on. We are, excuse me, we are recording this presentation. We're going to upload the recording to the Fort Worth, Texas. Dot gov project website for this, for this project along with recording. We'll try to make this format the next best thing to being. At an in-person meeting. So again, thank you for coming tonight's agenda in this presentation. I'll be talking about the project really as a whole providing some background. Discussing the scope and our anticipated schedule. The construction staging details, which I'm sure many of you are very interested in will be finalized with the selection of the contractor. But we will give you an overview of what we can expect during the construction. For any of your questions that I don't answer during this presentation, which is about 10 to 15 minutes, there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end. And we will provide contact information at the last slide as well. So plus on the project website. So tonight with me helping is Douglas Mike Worth. He's from ACOM. He's the design consultant for the project. He'll be able to help answer questions at the end if needed or and so forth. And also Jeffrey Allen is our communication specialist. He's also attending. And he, like he said, let's, please, let's hold the questions until after the presentation. And then we'll open it up for you to unmute and ask questions. And also Doug and Jeff will monitor the chat box for questions during anything that you want to provide during the chat box. So thank you. Your attendance here indicates you already know the location of the project, but it helps me to begin with a high level of you to zoom in. This is the location of this project in Fort Worth on Crowley Road, about a mile south of the Reagan Memorial. And 1.6 miles on Alta Mesa from Purple Heart Trail 35W. The intersection is located in Council District 8. This is an overhead shot of the existing conditions. Crowley Road, as you know, I'm sure as a text dot route with 3 heavily used through lanes in each direction, there's currently a single dedicated left turn lane in each direction. There's high demand, particularly in peak hours at this intersection. Additional left turn capacity to westbound Alta Mesa and northbound Crowley, it would be beneficial and it is available within the existing right of way. With the removal of the existing median, as you can see the medians here are fairly wide that we can utilize. That's really the genesis of the project to improve the capacity with a limited budget without needing to expand on the right of way. Because you know, all the owners on the, you know, it's very difficult and tedious and long process to not tedious, but it's a long process to acquire property. So this stays within the existing right of way. The goals of the project are to enhance, again, the peak operation through the intersection by making improvements in left turn capacity while staying within the existing right of way. They focus, the improvements focus on left turn movements. Along with these lane modifications, the traffic signal structures will be replaced and signal timing will be optimized. Another important aspect of this project is increased pedestrian mobility with the additional left turn, or I'm sorry, with the addition of ADA accessible ramps and crosswalks. The funding for this project was included in the 2018 bond program, which was authorized by the residents of Fort Worth in May of 2018. In the design plan, we will utilize the existing, again, I'm repeating myself a lot, but just we're going to utilize the existing medium space to create additional left turn lanes. This gives us the most economical improvement for mobility through the intersection without disruption. At each of these two locations at the arrows, a portion of the existing raised median will be removed and then the left turn lane will be constructed, creating dual left turn lanes at these two locations. That is Westbound Altamesa to Northbound Crowley, which is shown here. And here is Northbound Crowley to Westbound Altamesa. North is up here, as we see on the arrow, it's typical. These improvements require larger light pole support structures with longer mass terms in order to orient the lane or the signal heads in the proper location with respect to the lanes that they regulate. So the additional length of the mass term and additional load requires increased in foundation. Well, Jeff, if we lost him, this is Doug, Mike or they come if we lost Bradley for a moment. Oh, I'm here. Sorry. He's back now. There you go. He's back. I apologize. That happened last time. I did this as well. So when the construction begins, median will be demolished and subgrade prepared and compacted and then rebars placed with the new concrete. Median work, as you can tell, as you can probably imagine, it's going to be the most impactful construction activity, impactful to to travelers, users of the road. We've got to create a safe work zone for the construction people. And we have to maintain that. So we need this type of work requires a safety buffer. And so it's inevitable that there will be lane closure for this work. Safety's paramount, but it is in everyone's interest to minimize the duration of these closures. So we will work hard to bring every detail to bear on minimizing these delays. And another problem is concrete needs to cure. You know, we try to schedule activities to save the overall duration. But again, there will be lane reductions probably during construction, but more on that in just a bit. So some additional notes on the project schedule. The design has been completed and the activities required for permitting the work on text that property are nearly complete, virtually complete. Permitting has been really the main delay in the start of this project, but those issues are now pretty much resolved. So we anticipate that this is not going to be a no longer be an obstacle to us. The project is in the bid phase currently. The bids are due March 24th. So usually it takes about 90 days or so. We need to get the council approval of the contract and get all the signatures taken care of, and all the insurance and all the requirements that are needed for government project. But during this time, we usually begin working with the selected contractor on the overall schedule and other material approvals and so forth. So once the contract is executed and approved, the contractor can order the long lead items like poles and masterms. But once he mobilizes, he has four months of about four months of work to get to substantially complete. These four months is probably the part of the project that you will notice as the public traveler, this will be the most impactful part of the project. So we anticipate that that we will be complete with this project completely done by the end of the year. So four months is really the duration that we're looking at here. So the estimated cost is 720,000. We will perform the work during the off peak hours, like between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. We are constructing that left turn lanes. When we are constructing them, the adjacent lane must be closed as a buffer to the work, so primarily for safety. So left turn movements will always be accommodated. And we anticipate so, but this requirement is going to reduce up through lane probably from three to two. But we will work with the contractor and text dot to determine the lane configurations during each phase of the construction. I'm just trying to say that there probably will be, there will be, you will notice the work out there, so if you're traveling in the area. So similarly, the barrier free ramp construction also will require adjacent lane to be closed. For safety again, gee, that was fast. As we move forward, I guess I'll share my contact with information with you. This is it here. Again, we've been looking forward to this project for a long time, and it's a key improvement for the residents of Fort Worth. And I appreciate your listening. I'm an engineer, not a speaker, but I appreciate your, so I appreciate your patience. And I'll try to answer any questions that you have at this point. Just unmute yourself and go ahead. What effect will this have on edge cliff village? I, what do you, let's see, not familiar with that quite frankly. But it's, I would imagine that the three lanes of through traffic will be down to two lanes in some directions at, at certain times during the project. All the, all the access to businesses will be maintained on all the accesses to other entrances to subdivisions or, or whatever will not be, will be maintained during the construction. I'm not sure if I am answering your question correctly. Is there specifically anything that I can, that require that you're going to need to know about or? Okay. The lanes north and southbound on Crowley Road will be reduced from three to two. Is that right? Let me see if I can, oops. In all likelihood, when we're working on these, on these left turn lanes, we were going to need to close a lane. So we'll need to keep a left turn lane available. And, and so that would only leave two lanes left. So they're probably going to go, I would anticipate it would go from three to two. And then with the left turn lane, because right now we have three through lanes and a left turn lane. So it would go to two in a left turn lane. This is how I see that this work gets done here at the medians on both Altamesa and at Crowley. And then when we, when we work on the curb ramps, I would try to maintain two, two lanes in each direction is, or two lanes through in each, each way as well. But I, I don't see a way, you know, we, we could consider reducing lanes widths, but I don't think that that's going to fly with tech stats. So that's why I'm, I'm saying that during the peak hours, or during the not peak hours, the nine to four. And then sometimes there will be late concrete curing, which we'd have to leave up overnight the closures. But those details, we, we're going to have messaging signs available at the, at each of the four legs and to try to keep the public informed as to the upcoming traffic pattern switches all the time. So plus on our website, we will also be updating that when key traffic switches come. Usually we, we get the final traffic control plan when we get the contractor, we, and the contractor, we have to see how he's going to do his means and methods and how he wants to approach the project. And, but, but, so the fine details, I can't guarantee at this point. But anyway, I don't know if that explains it. Bradley, these are only, these are only temporary lane closures. So we're not permanently reducing lanes, correct? It's just during construction. I'm sorry. It's just the construction period, the form of the period when we're, when we're, when we're doing the work, right? So this will have a significant impact on ingress and egress to edge lift three, which is the west side of Crowley Road, north of Elton Mason. Um, I might, in that, in that it might back, traffic may back up going the southbound Crowley Road traffic, because that, I guess that's my, we're not going to block any of your entrances or exits. But I guess the traffic during peak times may back up. I don't know if that's kind of what you're getting at or. Yeah, people will kill. Okay, we're trying to, I mean, if it gets really bad, I mean, we work with the text dot traffic control people as well for Crowley. And they're very sensitive to that. And we will try to minimize that if there's anything that we can possibly do. I can't guarantee anything right at this moment. I don't know, Doug, do you have any comments that you want to add? Or did I explain it poorly? I think you explained it fairly well, and you just need to keep in mind that during the peak traffic hours before 9 a.m. each morning and after 4 p.m. each afternoon, the maximum number of lanes that can remain open are going to remain open. The contractor only has from 9 a.m. in the morning to 4 p.m. in the afternoon to do his work. And that's to avoid the peak traffic volumes. That answers my question. Yeah, maintain as much free traffic as I can. Thank you, Doug. Also, if you're a Collin user and I muted you at the beginning of the presentation because of background noise, you can hit star six to unmute if you'd like to ask a question. This project, because it's on text that right away. We had to get a local, it's called a LOSA, we call it LOSA, it's a local owns. What is this local owned service agreement or something that, so we need to, we needed to do that process with text. And it's a new process for them. So we are all learning at the time and it does not go as quickly as we hope. So this project has been delayed quite a long time for that reason, but we have that resolved now. So I know that some of you might have been concerned about, I mean, I've been aware of this project for a long time, but that's the reason for this last delay, but we're, it's in bid now. So we have a lot of interest in from from contractors so that I'm at the mistake that we're going to have a good project here. So anything anyone else, please, if you have any questions. Could I ask a question? It. It appears that the a lot of the. Interruption of traffic is going to be the barrier free ramps when they're being constructed. You said you'd be closing the. Right lanes effectively and would that be. Only between 4, 9 and 4. I, I hope so. I, my concern is that I think we can do that. I believe we can. My concern is that we we have enough. When we, when the contractor say opens the lanes back up to full capacity for rush hour. That we have to guard the, you know, any kind of work that's been done like. Fresh concrete or other, you know, it's kind of a fine gradient that has to be done there. And so we just so maybe we can do that with just. Physical barriers that don't that don't really interrupt the lane of traffic. I think we can do that to keep keeping the full service open, but the worst cases we may have to reduce the lane somewhat to leave a little bit of. Just so that the straight tire doesn't run over fresh concrete, you know what I mean? It's very. Happens more than you would think. Would you, do you have anything that to clarify that for me, Doug? You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I think you covered it, you know, there's when they go in there and they. Remove the existing ramp and get ready to replace it. Of course, once they replace it, there'll be some fresh concrete there that is Brett said, we don't want. New tire tracks across, but then, you know, when they, when they make their saw cuts and remove the barrier free ramp. There may need to be a little bit extra buffer area combed off. Just so that while the sub grades being prepared. For the placement of the new concrete for the barrier free ramp, there's going to be a. You know, an 8 or 9 inch drop off from the surface of the existing concrete to the base of the. For the new barrier free ramps going to go so. For a short period of time, there may be a little bit of a extra area. I'm sure the contractor is going to do everything you can to minimize. You know, blocking any through traffic or diminishing any lanes, if at all possible. Again, there's, you know, it's. It's construction, it's going to be a little messy at times and it's going to disrupt a few things for short periods, but. And we just have to kind of bite the bullet and bear it. Keep in mind that it's going to be better when we get through and. Thank you. It will be a minimize impact. Thank you for your question. That's. That's a good point with the, the. The drop off when that happens when we cut stuff out and it will happen on the median as well. So. That's a bad thing if a car, you know, hire. Goes down into that kind of problem. So, thank you for your question. I did a similar project to similar. In, in that the signal polls that we. Need to get for this project. Took quite a long time now that was during the coming out of the pandemic phase and there was a lot of. Back up on the orders and so that's the other thing that we're going to try to mitigate is any kind of procurement delays for these. Long. Polls that a mass diamonds have to be longer because it's. It's another lane wide. So the mass diamonds must be longer and there's special order sometimes so we. I think we'll, I think we're past most of those problems now, but that's my only other thing that we're trying to anticipate and get ahead of. So. Just, I don't know. I thought that was important to save it anyway. Any other questions that I can, let's see. Lizette, are you here? No, are you on the phone? My boss is Lizette. I see there's some calling users and I was just wondering if 1 of them was hurt, but that's fine. Bradley, we do have a comment and chat now. Will we have another public meeting once the contractor has been selected selected and we have a. Actual construction date. I don't anticipate that we will. We'll, like I say, we'll try to not try what we will have a lot of the signage out there that's going to give plenty of warning. They're required to 2 week warning. The contractors and all times and before traffic shifts or starts of construction, plus the website. We're going to be updating the website frequently as we go. If you want to email me or email, I can. Have a list and email to you a notification of 1 week. After we get the contract on board when he's planning on starting, I can do that as well. But I don't think we're going to have another public meeting. Brett, could you put your email address and contact information back up for a minute? Good idea. Plus, this, this is also on the website as well. This project has its own pages. This most projects do so. It's quite a few projects on the website there. I think it's in the district 8. I think the link might be at the district 8. Web page as well. So. It's also on the flyer that you sent us. Oh, great. Yeah. Jeff is. Jeff is our communications specialist. He puts those things together. It's quite. It's quite, it's quite an effort. So appreciate that. You can also, if you're on the city's website, just type ultimate in the search box and it's typically the 1st 1 that pops up. If there's any more questions, I'm happy to take some. We did have another comment and chat from Margaret and it says, just remember the outcome will be great. We'll promise I didn't pay Margaret to say that, but thank you. It will be better. It will be good. A comm is the top, the top designer. So they, they, I used to work there myself. So. I know that they put out a quality product. So I'm sure that it's going to really help the intersection. Quite a bit. So nothing's perfect. I guess, but. This will help quite a bit. So in recap. Contracts are to be let. This month. Construction to start. Next month for 4 months. Is that about right? Oh, no. It's going to be. Opening the bids March 24th. So usually we get the low bidder and then we have to verify that he meets all the criteria with the submittal. And then we. We have to get council approval for the appropriate to appropriate the funds and to. Select the funds are appropriate, but to bring this contract to. They have to prove the contract basically. So yeah, they execute, then we execute the contract and then so that process between the time. The contractor has an executed contract and the time that he submits his bid is probably about. 60 to 90 days. So we're looking at August. To start the construction. I guess I should have been clear on that part. So. July or August, I'd say. Can you put that slide back up that has the kind of timeline on it? Find that, find that slide here. That's why I say 4 months from August. So. We'll be finished by Christmas. So. Hopefully we can have him start, you know, in early July, you know, that would be the best case if everything was smoothly. And I don't see why I wouldn't, but. Yeah, so there also is a little bit of a period that he's going to have to procure the. Material saw the signals. So we're going to, but we will finish by the end of the year. So that's my. That's my goal, my. My, my feeling right now, my best, my best guess. Yeah, it does take a while. That's I understand it's. It's I wish it was faster. Well, I for want to appreciate the update. Thank you. You're welcome. Sure. Does anyone else have questions before we wrap up for the evening. Thank you for conducting the meeting. Appreciate it. Oh, it's our pleasure. Thank you. So we can get you a copy of the presentation or PDF of it at least. And this recording will also be on the project website. So you can watch the whole thing. If you wish that way, you could hear questions. Your preference, if you want to send either Bradley or I. A private message with your email, we can make sure that would mean that could happen.