 Alex, you're muted. There we go. Well, good evening. My name is Alex or Alejandra and I am the project manager for the WJ Bose Reconstruction Project. This project is the WJ Bose Road is the dividing line between council district number 2 and council district number 7. This does involve two council districts within the city of Fort Worth. I will be managing this project from now until we close it out. I want to thank all of you for joining us this evening. Just to let you know, our agenda is I'm going to introduce the project team. I'm going to explain our project manager role, give you an overview of the project map, and then we're going to discuss the scope of the project, the schedule and budget, contact information, and then we'll open it up for questions and answers at the end of the meeting. The project team is made up of myself. I'm Alex and I'm the project manager, and I report to our program manager who is Raul Lopez. He's also on this call as well. The city has partnered with Graham Associates to design this project, and our two of our engineers are Mark Burkhardt and Joe Perkins. My role as a transportation project manager, I'm the professional responsible for resource coordination, procuring and managing the contracts and services for the delivery of this project, whose limits and scope are predefined by the transportation planners. Our consultant project manager role is their professionals and they are responsible for the design, coordination of the resources needed for the survey, right-of-way acquisition, utility relocations, permit submittals, bidding, and construction management, and ensuring the elements of the predefined scope are included in the final design. Approximately 1.1 miles of WJ Boas will be reconstructed between Boat Club Road on the west and Elkins School Road on the east. The scope of the project includes a widening between Boat Club Road to Elkins School Road. We're going to modify the traffic signal at Boat Club Road. We're going to do some studies to determine if a traffic signal is needed at Bowman Roberts Road, which includes analysis to determine the best design for this intersection. This road is going to become a four-lane divided roadway. We're going to have 10-foot multi-use trails on the north side of the road, and we're going to try to accommodate that 10-foot wide trail on the south side, but there are going to be some areas where the sidewalks have been reduced between five to seven feet in order to reduce the impacts to a private property. There's also drainage improvements, which includes the elimination of the roadside dishes that we currently see out there. We're also going to do some channel and culvert improvements north and east of Elkins School Road. We're also going to include streetlights into this design. The design sections are being reduced in certain areas in order to minimize the impacts to home, to trees, and to parking areas. We're also going to be doing water and sewer relocations on this project as well. As you all know, those who drive this road, this road has been around forever. It used to be part of Taren County and it is currently a two-lane country road with side road ditches. The first picture there is looking west at Bow Club Road into the Eagle Ranch area. As we expand this intersection from a two-lane to a four-lane, we will be doing redoing the signal as well. We have a lot of overhead power lines near Bow Club Road. We also have underground natural gas pipelines and franchise utilities that we will be having to relocate as part of this project. Here's some more pictures of the current conditions of the roadway. There are areas where you see quite a bit of space between the existing buildings and the current roadway section. Those are areas where, as development came through the city, the city was able to get a right-of-way dedicated by these particular developers. Especially, you will see that near the storage warehouse on the west side of the project and near West Crest Way, where you could see the white section in the middle picture. There was a temporary roundabout that was recently constructed at the intersection of W. J. Bowes and Bowman Roberts to alleviate the congestion at the intersection. The city plans to conduct a study to determine if the roundabout will need to be expanded or if we need to change it to a traffic signal. We'll have to go out there and our Graham associates will be conducting that study to determine which is the best solution in order to maximize the capacity at that intersection and get a traffic moving. Currently, the existing cyber ditches will be eliminated. The street will become a carbon gutter section, which means all the storm drain will be going underground. And I'm going to get into a little bit. This is just a schematic design. This is just a very preliminary planning schematic that we're using in order to determine what's going to be the best way to design this roadway. It will be four lanes. There'll be two lanes going westbound and two lanes going eastbound. The median will vary in size. It's just going to depend on the width will depend on how where they are and how we can, we can minimize the impact to private property that has developed along this corridor in the last 20, 30 years. And this is just more of that schematic design as, as you go toward the intersection of Bowman Roberts. And I just wanted to reiterate that we will be looking at figuring out whether we're going to keep this roundabout or we're going to put in a signalized intersection. And start starting right around set bar wise street going eastbound. This is where we have a lot of private properties that are going to be impacted by this roadway widening the developments that occurred on the north side of the street to have dedicated right away when they came in for permitting through the city. And on the south side of the street, we have the temple Baptist church and other private properties that are going to require right away acquisition. And then these areas is that we're looking into to really minimizing that median in order to reduce the amount of right away take along the frontage of these homes. As we continue eastbound, the project ends a little bit east of Elkins school road. We are going to do improvements to the current a culvert that's at Marine Creek tributary. That culvert is very undersized and it over tops when we get significant rainstorm events. So that culvert will be upsized in order to minimize the over topping during certain rainfall events. The typical section for this roadway was supposed to have been 110 feet, but we are going to get a variance to try to reduce it to 90 feet in some areas in order to to minimize the impact to those private properties. As we go over toward the east side of the project, that's what we plan to do some some right away acquisition and minimize that to about 74 feet to to 70 feet in order to to reduce that those media widths and be able to accommodate and get this roadway as far away as we can from from people's property. So the schedule we're going to start right away acquisition this summer. Between now, between summer, between 2 and summer, between 3, it takes approximately about a year to get right away. First, this coming month in June and July, we got, we got to get survey started. So, in order for us to really get into into the design of this roadway project, we have to get that accomplished. We have a substantial completion of of the design next summer by 2023. Once we obtain right away, it's going to take about another year to do utility locations as many of you know, that are living this area. This is, this used to be a Tarrant County road. And so there's a lot of utilities that need to be that need to be relocated above and below the ground. And so once we, we get the right away, we'll be able to to do start relocating those. We plan to start construction sometime in the fall of 2024. These dates are very tentative as we progress in the design and figure out the complexities of this project. We'll, we'll be able to give you a more finite dates, but, but for now, this, this is pretty much the, the estimated that for the construction to start in the fall of 2024. And it's going to be anywhere between 18 to 24 month projects. So we're going to assume we're going to be completed around the fall of 2026. We do have a project funding sources. We had a Tarrant County bond election in November of 2021, which the county is, is, is paying for some of some of the, this money. Some of the monies are coming from Tarrant County as well as from the Fort Worth 2022 bond program that the residents of Fort Worth voted on in May of 2022. The construction cost for this project is about 30 million dollars. Here's my information on the left, and there's my phone number and my email address. Feel free to call me or email me if you have any questions. And we also put Raj Gupta. He's our traffic management. He's one of our traffic engineers for the city. And that's his information there in case you have any questions about traffic. And with that, that's all the information I have on the project. I'll open it up to questions. Alex, this is council member Flores. I'm on the call. I wasn't able to come good. I wasn't able to get on the, the meeting line for some reason, but in case I missed it, I apologize. But is there any. Is there any plan, I guess, when it comes to detours due to construction that folks should know about? At this point in time, we haven't quite yet gone through those exercise yet. I think as we get into more, the design will be able to, to make those determinations about detours. Okay. All right. My request being, once we know what those particulars are, if they can somehow be posted on the city webpage, let people know what to expect how to make adjustments to their travel schedule. The meetings get necessary. Absolutely. We can post those up to the, to the project website. Great. Thanks Alex. Thank you. Have you anticipated burying any of the power lines where the construction is going to be so they wouldn't be seen anymore? No, those are going to stay overhead and visible. The cost to bury those power lines is pretty significant. And that's why we were just relocate them to the edges of the roadway. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Alex, we have it. Sorry, go ahead sir. Oh, no worries. This is Billy with Eagle Mount second all school district. And so my question is, have y'all determined how you're going to phase this road as far as maybe building the north and building the south or. Has that been discussed or determined? Well, we plan to keep the current lanes open. One of the pros about this project is that we currently have to functioning lanes going west of East. So the plan is to construct the new pavement first and then swap traffic over and construct the north side of the street where the existing lanes are. Okay. And typically when I start projects, I usually have a list of stakeholders. Which usually includes the, I know there's quite a bit of elementary schools out here, middle school and also Boswell high school to the north. And I also have, I do communications with them also communications with the with the bus. The bus folks to let them know when we plan to change a route. It do anything on this roadway that may impact their route and timing in the mornings. And usually I send those out. I try to do at least two weeks ahead of time. So they're, they, they stay, you know, in the know of what we're doing with this road. Because I know school traffic can be can be hectic during during construction. Yes. Thank you very much. And that obviously that the consideration is very appreciative. And then just so I confirm what you said it's going to be a complete four lane road with center turn lanes. Yes, we'll have a median and some of those mediums will have turn lanes. Okay. Very good. But you so you would have to four lanes each side with a center turn lane. Okay, that's just it's just that some of those some of the width of that road is going to be narrow. If you're on the east side of Innisbrook. Yes. Okay. I think it was. Let me go back. Alex, I think there's a little confusion with semantics here. There's not going to be a center lane, there's going to be a center medium, but there's not going to be a two way left turn lane. If that's what the gentleman is asking. There's going to be a solid median, not a two way left turn lane. And there will be left lanes at those medias at the intersection at the medium breaks. Correct. Okay, but no, no dedicated turn lane. Not a continuous one. No. Okay. They'll be a medium with with with left turn lanes cut into it. Okay. Yes, ma'am. I had a question on the median in front of Billingham and WJ, as is that set in stone. Billingham, let me get to that. Over on the left hand side. We're working through details on those I think as we progress more into the design of this project. We'll be able to make determinations of where we're going to have these medians. Right now, because of Bob Hanger, we're anticipating having one there. I was going to piggyback on that gentleman's question. Bob Hanger has had quite a few wrecks. People will drive through Bob Hanger. Breeze right through WJ Boaz. We've had 3 different cars slam through a brick wall right there at that intersection. And then other wrecks just a little bit down the road. And I was wondering our traffic patterns at Rex and it's going to be reviewed when designing the road or things like that. Absolutely. We take, we follow all of the guidelines for a safer way design. So we're going to be able to, we have, we work closely as well. It's not just my department, TPW, but I work with our traffic management folks to make sure that we're following all the guidelines and all the rules. So when we do these peer review meetings, we look at all that. The traffic patterns to how many wrecks where they are. Appreciate it. We also, when we do warrant study for traffic signals, that's, that's one of the criteria is for our engineers to obtain the, the direct reports, the incident reports at these intersections. Ah, okay. Thank you. So Alex, there's a few questions in the chat. I'm going to start going down them. Is there any plan to widen the road to all the cater road? And I'll answer that one. At this time, that is not funded. That section is not funded. The only section that was funded was the section that we're discussing today. That section is identified for future improvements, but it's not funded at this time. And the next question is why is the construction stop in Elkins, Elkins school road. It's kind of the same question. Yeah, it is not funded yet going all the way to all the cater questions. Will Cromwell Marine Creek and Bella boss will be under construction at the same time. And I'll take this one as well. Alex. And I'm sorry, I'm Raul Lopez and the engineering manager that oversees the design and construction. All of all of the thorough fairs and for orphan Alex is in my team. I have a little more knowledge of, you know, kind of a holistic knowledge of the arterials and what the plans are. So that's why I'm answering some of the questions. We, we try to offset the construction offset the construction so that not all the thorough fairs in construction. Same time. The challenge that we have is that we have to, we have 5 years to deliver all of this products that we have started right about the same time. So they end up starting construction right around the same time. So we will try to offset them and work, you know, with one another logistically to avoid, you know, having all of them. Having at least, you know, routes to to alleviate traffic will some of them are in the construction. The challenges we have to finish all of this products within a year or within 5 years. I'm sorry. Expression is far we are we redoing the roundabout we already spent money on that roundabout at Bowman Roberts is was meant to be temporary sort of a quick solution for the. The traffic conditions at the time, but it's being revaluated whether around about whether it can be expanded or if the traffic signal is more efficient. Once the road is widened to 4 lanes right now is only 2 lanes. So that's going to be taken into account. Any sidewalks in the plan? Yes, there are sidewalks along the entire corridor when we do improvements to the fair affairs sidewalks are always included. We have a we call it complete streets policy and that is meant to provide mobility for cars, pedestrians and bicycles and other means of transportation transit as well. So, if the plan stays as it is generally designed. Where is the closest you turn for people coming out of Bellingham? Alex, can you bring the plan the screen back there? They'll be able to turn at Bob Hanger. If you're coming out of Bellingham. That would be the meeting opening. Which end of the road will you be starting at? That's, we haven't determined that yet. We're at the very early stage of the project. So, this is a very first public meeting that we have and we will have more meetings as we progress the design. And once we have a contractor on the contract, then we'll have what we call a pre construction meeting and will provide that information, which, which side we're going to start. And how are we going to progress through the construction. Excuse me rule. Yes. So the question on those sidewalks where there be sidewalks on the north and south side of the road. Correct. Yes, sir. Okay. Very good. Sure. That's all of the questions that I have in the chat. At this point. I think we'll give it a few minutes. If anybody either on the phone that wants to add an additional question, if anybody comes up with other questions. I think we have 1 more question. I will cars going east and bows, get into Bellingham. So. So they'll, they'll have to either go in. There's 2 entrances to that subdivision. There's 1 at Innisforc Lane, which has a median opening and then there's Bellingham road. So, if you are going. He's bound, you can enter your neighborhood on Innisforc Lane. Or if you don't want to enter there, you're going to have to you turn at Elkins school road. Well, I don't see it unless I'm missing it. I don't see a D cell lane at Elkins school road to make you turn. So they would just be using that center lane to you turn. Yes. Okay. That's something that we can look into to see if we can fit a diesel lane there. I'm going to put that on my notes. 50 feet. You can get in there or something. Jason Sanders. I live in Innisforc. This is more of just a suggestion rather than a question, but I would really appreciate it. I know many others on this call are probably living in this brick as well. If we can somehow reconsider that median when you're going eastbound on bows, turning on Bellingham. I think that would that help us help us a lot of us out. Kind of get through some of this some of these issues that we're having with this project. Okay, we'll definitely consider it. This is just a schematic. Once our grant associates gets into the into the traffic counting and more into a thorough design, we'll be looking at all that. Is there a set time on the hours they're going to be working? We usually let contractors work from 7 to 7 p.m. and they're allowed to work on Saturdays. Construction. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, we usually that'll work. We don't do because of residential adjacency though, they will not be allowed to work in at night. It's typically 7 to 6 on weekdays and then Saturdays. They're not going to work. They need to let us know by Thursday at noon. And he starts at 9 at 9 in the morning cannot start work before 9 in the morning on Saturdays. And it is very rare that they work on Saturdays or Sundays, never Sundays. Does anyone else have any any questions? My information. Alex, this is Mark. I just wanted to add a couple of points to the questions that were asked. One of them is we are considering a signal at Bob hangers to read it all depends on traffic counts, but. We've already discussed that with the traffic engineer that that's probably a possible location for. For a traffic signal. Because of the trip because that rug goes so far to the south. It does carry a lot of cars. We've also looked at. Joe and I have looked at Elkins school as a possible. Small left turn there to provide access for a turn lane. Not showing on the schematic, but. But if you don't turn around there, you would be blocking the traffic to do that. And I think the other point I wanted to make was. It involved the sidewalks and the trail system. Basically, we have a full trail system from. A boat club road all the way to Bowman's. Robert's. We have 10 foot trails on both sides of the road all the way to Bowman Roberts. At that point, we're maintaining a 10 foot trail on the north side. All the way through the project. So it goes all the way to the end of the project on Elkins school and. And then from. From Bowman Roberts to Elkins school in the south side is where we reduce. The trail to actually a sidewalk and areas. So we don't minimize impacts on the existing homes and parking. So on there. And we are trying to the tree line that you see along the north side of the subdivisions. We are trying to maintain those trees as part of the trail system so that there's a canopy cover. Of trees that are. That would possibly shade that and help out with the trail system there. So. This is Joe, the question there's 1 on about the trail different from a sidewalk. It's just mainly the width. The trails are 10 foot sidewalks or less. And the trails are watered just to allow bicycles to be on on the trail instead of on the roadway. That's correct. And then. Yep. I guess the other. The other thing regarding the. The construction and maintaining 2 lanes of traffic. Typically on. Project like this will try to maintain 2 lanes on 1 side. So utilize the existing roadway. I know it's pretty. Close to the center of the right away right now. But whatever side the. That we can utilize more of the existing road. We may have to widen the existing road a little bit during. Construction to keep 2 lanes on. We would widen 1 side of. The road build a full 2 lanes and then move traffic from. From the old 2 lane road to the new 2 lane road and then build the other 2 lanes. Of this road and then finally as a 3rd phase, we would build the medians and center turn lanes. So that would be typically of how we would construct that. So there's 1 more question in the chat is as well. Any ballers were being styled to keep cars from driving. Into the brick wall on the north side of Bose road. I think the big difference from. The existing conditions to the proposed conditions is that we're going to have a curved roadway. There is going to be a curve and curves are usually. What are the functions of the curve is to deter. Try cars when they view off the road to. Going into fences or properties. Typically on a thoroughfare like these are no ballers in style is the curve that serves the purpose of the baller. There are a couple of other questions as well. 1 of them is will the grade be the same or will it be higher or lower. And that's in reference to the sidewalk. I think so. Yeah, the sidewalk is going to be. Higher than the road if that's the question. It's going to look just like your typical thoroughfare where. A sidewalk is about 6 inches or 8 inches above the surface of the road. And this is Mark again on that subject to the. The existing road is built up in the air. So the new road will actually be cut down on more. It'll probably create a small retaining walls along. The sidewalk areas so that'll actually. You know, with the road being lower and the sidewalk wall being there will be more of a deterrent to from people being able to run into your fence. So. The last, the last thing I see in chat roles. Jason says that when schools back in sessions, those U turns are going to be virtually impossible in the mornings and afternoons of schools. They're just letting in or going in or letting out. And he agrees with comments that it's going to cause more accident. Yes. And I want to say something that we didn't say out, you know, at the onset of the meeting is this road is being very challenging to design because we. We were juggling two things. We don't want to take right away, you know. Fast amounts of right away from the existing properties on the south, because that would be number one cost prohibitive and number two. Damaging to all those properties. So, so we're trying to limit the width of the road to avoid to minimize the right away take. Number 2 is where the very preliminary stages and we'll be looking at traffic counts and, you know, school traffic and so on and so forth. And none of this has been set in stone yet, but there will have to be compromises. Prime example is this Bellingham Road versus Bob Hangar Street. We have to have a meeting opening on that road that has the most traffic. We can't give it to the smaller road. Especially when there's no other interest. I'm not saying that's how it's going to end up being, but we have to have compromises because of the limitations on space on this road. The other thing that I want to say is that are new lane standards go from 12 feet to 11 feet. So it's going to be a much narrower lane and that studies show that that forces people to slow down and those all of our roads are going to be are being designed instead of 12 foot lanes are going to be 11 foot lanes. So that's going to slow down people. There's a question or the road has saggy spots. Will the new one have saggy spots? Not really sure what we mean by saggy spots. I mean, it's going to be a brand new road. So it's going to be a smooth surface. Will he have low points? I'm not sure Alex that we have. I'm not sure what the profile looks like. Yeah, they'll be low points throughout the. And there will be inlets to catch drainage at those low points. Can we get a copy of the presentation? Yes, we will post a presentation in the project site. People who live in that neighborhood are so well. I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with the term. This mark again. I was going to mention on the last comment to that the road. From Sam. Country road to Elkin school road is actually going to be out of the flood plain. So it'll be, it'll be raised up. In the air farther than it is now. So all of the new construction will actually be out of 100 year flood point. I know the current flood plain goes over Elkin school around there through the intersection with the tributary. Not sure we covered this question. Alex, is there a room to fit a roundabout at Bob Hanger? I don't believe so, but Mark, you can tell me. Is there a remote possibility that we could feed a small roundabout there? I don't believe so. We would be damaging those proper that property immediately to the north. I would say four houses. Yeah, it wasn't too bad today. No, okay. We did not want to do that. There's just not room there. Yeah, it's it's very tight. Again, we're trying to narrow down the road as much as we can to limit the to the properties to the south. It is a little bit of a challenging project. I'm sorry, I think in address this one will happen to those who have well water. This project does not change anybody from whatever system they're in. If you have a water, you will continue to have your water. If you have domestic water served by the city for work network. So, are those all the questions we have? Well, just 1, 1 more pop up Alex. Okay. The median at the front of Bellingham will generate excessive traffic from those who want to make left turns. Yes, again, you know, we have to make a decision whether to provide a medium break at Bellingham or Bob Hanger and that'll be based on. Traffic counts and. There's a question whether we can have a meeting in person at some point. Jeff, are we allowed to have meetings in person to be able to do that. At some point in the near future. It's not the next meeting, then maybe the. 3rd meeting at least at least pre construction. I know we're going to have a couple more meetings since again, on the side of this project. And for all of those that didn't get the chance to ask a question or a question pops up after we. Close to meeting you have you'll have Alex's contact information. And with that, my, I just put my information back up on the screen just take a picture of it. And if you have any other questions, feel free to call me or email me. And I want to thank you all for for joining us this evening to discuss this project. And have a good evening. Thank you. One more thing for those that are calling users and can't see the screen her phone numbers 817. 3928883. Thanks, Jeff. Thank you, staff. Thank you, Alex. Good job. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good night. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.