Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a design contract with Burgess and Niple, Inc. for the Roadway Improvements - Downtown Action Plan Project. This project is being designed to implement concepts from the 2010 Downtown Columbus Strategic Plan. The concepts include providing on-street parking on High Street, converting Front Street to two-way operation north of Broad Street, reducing the number of travel lanes on Broad Street and including complete streets concepts, evaluating the one-way pairs for complete streets concepts, and reviewing on-street parking throughout downtown.
To date, portions of tasks 1 through 3 of the Downtown Action Plan have been completed. The downtown traffic model is mostly completed and will be finalized as the project proceeds onto each task. Parking on High Street in the downtown has been modeled and analyzed. Adding meters to High Street is currently being designed. Traffic modeling, analysis, and preliminary design have been completed for the conversion of Front Street and Marconi Blvd from one-way to two-way between Broad Street and Hickory Street. It is ready to begin final design. Traffic modeling and analysis is currently being performed for a possible road diet on Broad Street between Civic Center Drive/Marconi Blvd and I-71.
Future tasks include reevaluating the current parking restrictions on many of the streets in the downtown and the modeling and analyses of the one-way pairs in the downtown, which involves complete streets strategies such as converting to two-way, improved crosswalks, installing bike facilities, and other treatments.
This modification allows for a continuation of previously approved work and adds additional work which may include, but is not limited to: starting to update the Bicentennial Bikeways Plan and will include opportunities for the City to apply the new NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guidelines and other innovative solution...
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