H-1 East Crawford StatusMarch 23, 1977
Please place the following item on the agenda for Monday,
March 28, 1977:
"Progress report on status of East Crawford".
EAST CRAWFORD STREET
OHIO STREET to t~ARYMOUNT ROAD
FOUR LANE ARTERIAL CONSTRUCTION
ESTIMATED COST $1,093,240.00
ADVANTAGES:
This project would quality for Federal Aid Urban Funds to the
extent of a 70 percent (70%) grant for the total cost of the
project. This would make the City and property owners share
equal $327,972.00.
This project would give us a wide safe bridge with pedestrian
traffic separated from vehicular traffic.
If the full width is constructed at one time, we would realize
a 30 percent (30%) less total ~ost than if we did it in stage
construction.
This project would adequately and safely handle projected traffic
for many years to come. You do not really solve a traffic problem
by constructing a project that would only be adequate for its
present traffic load.
DISADVANTAGES:
It may be the Fall of 1978 before.the project could be contracted
for construction. Construction may take as long as one yearwith
minimum interruption to traffic flow.
It would require $8,000.00 to $12,000.00 to repair and n]aintain
the present surface until the improvement could be constructed.
EAST CRAWFORD STREET
SMOKY HILL RIVER BRIDGE to EAST CITY LIMITS
RESIDENTIAL TYPE CONSTRUCTION
ESTIMATED COST $463,441.00
ADVANTAGES:
1. Estimated time to award construction contract - four months.
2J Estimated time to construct - six months.
DISADVANTAGES:
This type of construction would not qualify for Federal Aid
Urban Funds. ,.~
This type of construction would probably show very early
deterioration due to heavy use as South 'Ohio Street did.
The Smoky Hill River Bridge, at the west end of this improvement,
was built as a rural bridge by the County and is not a safe
structure for two lane urban traffic. This bridge has no
provisions for pedestrian traffic.
The asphalt mat from Marymount Road to the east city limits
has several years of serviceable life and only one-fifth of
the traffic between Marymount Road and the Bridge.
If we built two lanes that could quality for Urban Funds,
approval would still be questionable if we did not replace
the bridge. Further, if we added two lanes later, the total
cost would be approximately 30 percent (30%) greater than
if four lanes were constrUcted at one time.