Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into contract with American Structurepoint, Inc., the amount of up to $400,000.00 for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Refugee Road - Gender to Hines project.
The intent of this project is to provide the City of Columbus preliminary and final engineering for improvements to the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Refugee Road - Gender to Hines contract. Design will proceed in two parts. This ordinance will allow the Director of Public Service to enter into contract for Part 1, preliminary engineering. The Director anticipates doing a planned modification for Part 2 for final engineering at a later date. The specific scope of work for Part 2 will be developed upon completion of Part 1.
There are two main goals of the project: 1) improve capacity and safety of the intersection of Refugee Road and Hines Road, and 2) extend pedestrian, bikeway, and street lighting, and traffic signal interconnect facilities along Refugee Road from the eastern terminus of each such facility to be installed by City of Columbus Department of Public Service Capital Improvement Project No. 530086-100023, Intersection Improvements - Gender Road at Refugee Road, to new eastern termini for each within, through, or in close proximity to the Hines at Refugee intersection improvement limits and connecting the pedestrian and bikeway facilities to the Blacklick Trail.
Improvements to the intersection of Hines at Refugee will likely impact at least one of the following: an at-grade railroad crossing of Refugee Road, a railroad bridge over Blacklick Creek, a Refugee Road bridge over Blacklick Creek, Blacklick Creek, and parkland. As such, various alternatives need to be conceived and evaluated to determine a cost-effective approach that will limit impacts to the aforementioned items.
The primary goals of the Part 1 contract relative to the intersection of Hines at Refugee are to determine cu...
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