By ROBERT CADWALLADER - Special to the Star-Telegram - Mon, Feb. 11, 2008
MANSFIELD -- An agreement between city and state officials could speed relief to the traffic-clogged intersection of Texas 360 and East Broad Street by early fall.
The City Council is set to consider a resolution tonight that would clear the way for the $785,000 project, which would install traffic signals and widen the East Broad Street crossing between the northbound and southbound frontage roads. The main lanes of Texas 360 have not yet been constructed.
"During the morning and evening peak hours, it's hard to get through the intersection," Assistant City Manager Chris Burkett said. "These improvements will help that, especially during the football season."
The Mansfield school district's stadium stands near the intersection, one of the most complained-about crossings in the city.
The state has agreed to allow the city to bid on the project; the state bidding process would take about six months longer. However, a major obstacle had to be negotiated away.
Several months ago, the state said that if city took over the project it would also have to take over maintenance of not only that intersection but all other state highway signals in the city.
The city has to start maintaining those lights anyway by 2010 because its population exceeds 50,000. But city officials wanted to avoid the estimated $192,000 in costs over the next two years.
State officials have now agreed to allow the city to maintain only the Texas 360-East Broad intersection during that period.
Mansfield City Council
Three elections: The council is expected to call the general city election -- to decide the Place 6 and 7 council seats, currently held by Michael McSpadden and Larry Broseh, respectively -- and two special elections to fill the mayoral vacancy and update the city charter for the first time in 20 years. Embattled Mayor Barton Scott stepped down last month in the face of a recall election. The three elections would be May 10.
State of the City: City Manager Clayton Chandler will outline the staff's analysis of the city's current and future financial health. In this shortened version of the staff's presentation to New York bond rating agencies in the fall, Chandler said he will acknowledge that the housing slowdown has crimped the city budget but that continuing commercial growth -- especially in sales taxes -- has eased the impact.
Gas drilling: The council will discuss a subcommittee's suggestions for stepping up controls on oil and gas well exploration. A key goal is to get drilling companies to share right of way to run transmission lines.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, September 21, 2007
North Texas Tollway Authority Board Authorizes Project Development Contracts on Three New Regional Roads
By Sam Lopez - NTTA - Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007
Plano, TX – At a regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 19, the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) Board of Directors unanimously authorized project development services for State Highway (SH) 170 from SH 114 to IH 35W in Denton and Tarrant counties; SH 360 from Green Oaks Boulevard to United States (U.S.) 287 in Ellis, Johnson and Tarrant counties and the Dallas North Tollway (DNT) Phases 4 and 5 in Collin and Grayson counties.
The services for these projects were authorized to further the environmental clearance process for each corridor and fast track project development. Each contract will encompass preliminary concept development and analysis, schematic design, environmental documentation and public involvement support.
“Although the SH 170 and SH 360 projects are subject to the market valuation process outlined in SB 792, in the interest of keeping these critical regional projects moving forward, the NTTA board has authorized contracts in excess of $6,000,000 to bring each project closer to completion as we seek to solve our regional mobility challenges,” said NTTA Board Chairman Paul N. Wageman.
“This action demonstrates NTTA’s desire to fast track projects. We will continue to work with our regional partners to support the final delivery of these projects to the citizens of north Texas,” said Jorge C. Figueredo, NTTA Executive Director. “We recognize that a significant amount of work and study have already gone into each of these projects from our regional partners most notably the Texas Department of Transportation’s Fort Worth District.”
At their Sept. 19th meeting, NTTA board members emphasized NTTA’s strong commitment to working with its regional partners to deliver SH 170, SH 360 and DNT Phases 4 and 5. “We have been challenged to help ‘get them across the goal line’ and this reflects our commitment to do just that,” continued Wageman.
This initial section of SH 170 will be a new limited-access roadway in southern Denton and northern Tarrant counties. This 6.3-mile segment of the road will start at SH 114 and terminate at IH 35W; previously built frontage roads along the road will accommodate a toll road within the median. When completely built, SH 170 will extend from IH 35W to SH 199 in Parker County.
SH 360, a new limited access roadway in southeast Tarrant, northwest Ellis and northeast Johnson counties, is a 9.7-mile facility extending from Green Oaks Boulevard to U.S. 287. Northbound and southbound frontage roads along the alignment are open to traffic from Green Oaks Boulevard to the Southern Pacific Railroad (SPRR) crossing. A single frontage road on the west side of the alignment is operating with two-way traffic from the SPRR crossing to U.S. 287. The final phase of SH 360 will be from U.S. 287 to U.S. 67.
DNT Phases 4 and 5 will extend the DNT to meet the anticipated growth in northwest Collin, northeast Denton and southwest Grayson counties. DNT Phase 4, a six mile facility, will extend from U.S. 380 to Farm to Market (FM) 428. Collin County has already begun development of the future northbound service road that will open to traffic in 2008. DNT Phase 5 will further extend the DNT 11.6-miles from FM 428 to FM 121 into Grayson County.
Plano, TX – At a regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 19, the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) Board of Directors unanimously authorized project development services for State Highway (SH) 170 from SH 114 to IH 35W in Denton and Tarrant counties; SH 360 from Green Oaks Boulevard to United States (U.S.) 287 in Ellis, Johnson and Tarrant counties and the Dallas North Tollway (DNT) Phases 4 and 5 in Collin and Grayson counties.
The services for these projects were authorized to further the environmental clearance process for each corridor and fast track project development. Each contract will encompass preliminary concept development and analysis, schematic design, environmental documentation and public involvement support.
“Although the SH 170 and SH 360 projects are subject to the market valuation process outlined in SB 792, in the interest of keeping these critical regional projects moving forward, the NTTA board has authorized contracts in excess of $6,000,000 to bring each project closer to completion as we seek to solve our regional mobility challenges,” said NTTA Board Chairman Paul N. Wageman.
“This action demonstrates NTTA’s desire to fast track projects. We will continue to work with our regional partners to support the final delivery of these projects to the citizens of north Texas,” said Jorge C. Figueredo, NTTA Executive Director. “We recognize that a significant amount of work and study have already gone into each of these projects from our regional partners most notably the Texas Department of Transportation’s Fort Worth District.”
At their Sept. 19th meeting, NTTA board members emphasized NTTA’s strong commitment to working with its regional partners to deliver SH 170, SH 360 and DNT Phases 4 and 5. “We have been challenged to help ‘get them across the goal line’ and this reflects our commitment to do just that,” continued Wageman.
This initial section of SH 170 will be a new limited-access roadway in southern Denton and northern Tarrant counties. This 6.3-mile segment of the road will start at SH 114 and terminate at IH 35W; previously built frontage roads along the road will accommodate a toll road within the median. When completely built, SH 170 will extend from IH 35W to SH 199 in Parker County.
SH 360, a new limited access roadway in southeast Tarrant, northwest Ellis and northeast Johnson counties, is a 9.7-mile facility extending from Green Oaks Boulevard to U.S. 287. Northbound and southbound frontage roads along the alignment are open to traffic from Green Oaks Boulevard to the Southern Pacific Railroad (SPRR) crossing. A single frontage road on the west side of the alignment is operating with two-way traffic from the SPRR crossing to U.S. 287. The final phase of SH 360 will be from U.S. 287 to U.S. 67.
DNT Phases 4 and 5 will extend the DNT to meet the anticipated growth in northwest Collin, northeast Denton and southwest Grayson counties. DNT Phase 4, a six mile facility, will extend from U.S. 380 to Farm to Market (FM) 428. Collin County has already begun development of the future northbound service road that will open to traffic in 2008. DNT Phase 5 will further extend the DNT 11.6-miles from FM 428 to FM 121 into Grayson County.
Monday, July 23, 2007
NTTA Board to consider toll projects and subcontractors at July 25th meeting
By Faith Chatham - July 23, 2007http://dfwregionalconcernedcitizens.blogspot.com/
The North Texas Tollway Authority Board of Directors will hold their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, July 25 at 8:00 a.m. in the Board Room of the NTTA Administrative Offices located at 5900 W. Plano Parkway, Suite 200 in Plano.
The Meeting Agenda includes items which impact transportation in the Dallas TxDOT region and the Ft. Worth TxDOT region and the public can comments on items not listed on the agenda: (TxDOT; RTC/NCTCOG; or other items)
The Consent agenda includes consideration of award of contract to Rebcon, Inc. in the amount of $617,252.00 for construction of a sand stockpile for Dallas North Tollway Phase 3 and of a contract to Rebcon, Inc. in the amount of $737,195.10 for construction of a sand stockpile under the PGBT at Alma Road . The board will also consider approval of work authorization 02283-DNT-00-PS-PD with HNTB Corporation to provide corridor-management services for Dallas North Tollway Extension, Phase 4 and Phase 5.
The board will consider approval of a Project Agreement or Term Sheet setting forth the basic elements of the Project Agreement between TxDOT and the NTTA for the NTTA’s delivery and operation of SH 121 and authorizing the negotiation and execution of work authorization MA-WA12 with HNTB Corporation in the amount of $1,300,000 for landscape architectural design services for SH 121 in Collin, Dallas and Denton counties.
Other business includes consideration of an interlocal agreement among the NTTA, TxDOT (Texas Turnpike Authority Division), Harris County (Harris County Toll Road Authority), and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority regarding statewide interoperability for transponder-based electronic tolling on the parties’ respective toll facilities and for a consulting services agreement with Tamer Partners, Inc., for the development, implementation, and management of NTTA customer-relations services and customer-experience initiatives.
Updates will include briefing on migration plan for conversion to all-electronic toll collection (“ETC”) on NTTA facilities and Planning Updates on SH 170, SH 360 and Trinity Parkway and Project updates/discussion on the Dallas North Tollway projects, PGBT (President George Bush Turnpike) projects, Mountain Creek Lake Bridge, Addison Airport Toll Tunnel, Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge, Southwest Parkway – northern section
The Committee will report on the Regional Transportation Council and the Executive Director will update the board on program management and his participation with the City of Carrollton on market-valuation study for Thirty five Riverside property and TxDOT’s request regarding IH 635 project.
Mr. Wageman will brief on the market-valuation process for SH 161.
Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need auxiliary aids or services such as interpreters for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired, readers, large print or Braille, are requested to contact Robert Andrews at (214) 461-2000 two (2) work days prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
For more information contact Sam Lopez, North Texas Tollway Authority Public Information Officer - (214) 461-2065.
The North Texas Tollway Authority Board of Directors will hold their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, July 25 at 8:00 a.m. in the Board Room of the NTTA Administrative Offices located at 5900 W. Plano Parkway, Suite 200 in Plano.
The Meeting Agenda includes items which impact transportation in the Dallas TxDOT region and the Ft. Worth TxDOT region and the public can comments on items not listed on the agenda: (TxDOT; RTC/NCTCOG; or other items)
The Consent agenda includes consideration of award of contract to Rebcon, Inc. in the amount of $617,252.00 for construction of a sand stockpile for Dallas North Tollway Phase 3 and of a contract to Rebcon, Inc. in the amount of $737,195.10 for construction of a sand stockpile under the PGBT at Alma Road . The board will also consider approval of work authorization 02283-DNT-00-PS-PD with HNTB Corporation to provide corridor-management services for Dallas North Tollway Extension, Phase 4 and Phase 5.
The board will consider approval of a Project Agreement or Term Sheet setting forth the basic elements of the Project Agreement between TxDOT and the NTTA for the NTTA’s delivery and operation of SH 121 and authorizing the negotiation and execution of work authorization MA-WA12 with HNTB Corporation in the amount of $1,300,000 for landscape architectural design services for SH 121 in Collin, Dallas and Denton counties.
Other business includes consideration of an interlocal agreement among the NTTA, TxDOT (Texas Turnpike Authority Division), Harris County (Harris County Toll Road Authority), and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority regarding statewide interoperability for transponder-based electronic tolling on the parties’ respective toll facilities and for a consulting services agreement with Tamer Partners, Inc., for the development, implementation, and management of NTTA customer-relations services and customer-experience initiatives.
Updates will include briefing on migration plan for conversion to all-electronic toll collection (“ETC”) on NTTA facilities and Planning Updates on SH 170, SH 360 and Trinity Parkway and Project updates/discussion on the Dallas North Tollway projects, PGBT (President George Bush Turnpike) projects, Mountain Creek Lake Bridge, Addison Airport Toll Tunnel, Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge, Southwest Parkway – northern section
The Committee will report on the Regional Transportation Council and the Executive Director will update the board on program management and his participation with the City of Carrollton on market-valuation study for Thirty five Riverside property and TxDOT’s request regarding IH 635 project.
Mr. Wageman will brief on the market-valuation process for SH 161.
Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need auxiliary aids or services such as interpreters for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired, readers, large print or Braille, are requested to contact Robert Andrews at (214) 461-2000 two (2) work days prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
For more information contact Sam Lopez, North Texas Tollway Authority Public Information Officer - (214) 461-2065.
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