Title
T2050 New and Expanded Major Streets Program for Fiscal Years 2019 - 2023 (Resolution 21700)
Description
Request City Council approval of the proposed five-year Transportation 2050 (T2050) New and Expanded Major Streets program for Fiscal Years (FY) 2019-23.
Report
Summary
On April 19, 2017 Council approved the T2050 New and Expanded Major Streets Program for FY 2018-22 (Attachment A). At that meeting, Council also provided a 16-Year Lifecycle Program for T2050 New and Expanded Major Streets that identified 41 individual projects within City limits to be designed and constructed over multiple years (Attachment B). The 16-Year Lifecycle Program is used to guide updates to the rolling five-year T2050 New and Expanded Major Streets program.
Attachment C is the proposed updated five-year program for T2050 New and Expanded Major Streets Program for FY 2019-23. The updated program includes projects previously approved and updated, as well as projects in FY 2023. The updated program includes a number of cost adjustments associated with more fully developed and refined cost estimates from the previous initial planning level estimates. In some cases, project cost adjustments are related to actual cost and/or scope adjustments. Changes are described below:
- Baseline Road: Loop 202/59th Avenue to 55th Avenue (A): Project budget and costs now include no T2050 funding and have been lowered from $9,488,000 to $2,000,000, as the project will be fully funded using Impact Fees and required developer contributions.
- Buckeye Road: 67th Avenue to 59th Avenue (B): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- Indian School Road: 107th Avenue to 91st Avenue (C): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- Lower Buckeye Road: 75th Avenue to 19th Avenue (D): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing. The project segment between 71st Avenue to 67th Avenue has been advanced from scheduled construction in FY 2030 to design and construction in FY 2020 through an intergovernmental agreement between the Maricopa County Department of Transportation and the City of Phoenix that provides a T2050 and City cost savings. The City’s portion of the project costs are budgeted at $2.5 million through a combination of T2050 and HURF funds. In addition, a segment of Lower Buckeye Road from 43rd Avenue to 35th Avenue was advanced in the program from FY 2023 to FY 2021 to initiate design earlier to align better with other roadway segments programmed earlier in the plan.
- Baseline Road: 46th Avenue to 43rd Avenue (E): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- 91st Avenue: Camelback Road to Thomas Road (F): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- 91st Avenue: Buckeye Road to Lower Buckeye Road (H): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- Lower Buckeye Road: 91st Avenue to 75th Avenue (I): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- 16th Street and Indian School Road (AA): This project has been completed, so it is no longer shown in the five-year program.
- 35th Avenue: Glendale Avenue to Camelback Road (BB): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- Camelback Road: 19th Avenue to 17th Avenue (EE): Refined project costs and made necessary adjustments to scope and timing.
- 43rd Avenue: McDowell Road to Bell Road (GG): Project costs were refined and phase adjustments were updated to break out this longer corridor into more manageable phases. In addition, an ADA improvement project (43rd Avenue: McDowell Road to Bell Road) was added to the corridor to further improve the delivery of the project.
Project Update
Based on the previously approved five-year program, work was initiated on seven projects in 2018. Four of these projects (Projects B, D, and two segments in Project GG) are in final design and right-of-way coordination and acquisition. One segment of Project GG is in final design and will move into construction this fiscal year. Construction of Project A was deferred from 2018 to 2019 to take advantage of a public/private partnership opportunity and Project AA was completed in 2018.
Major new or expanded roadway projects typically take five years from project initiation to project completion. Various components impact project schedules including: right-of-way acquisition, utility relocations, drainage requirements, roadway structures, and public involvement. More specifically, initial project development and design phases require up to two years to complete, while right-of-way acquisition efforts run approximately one year. The construction process, from contract procurement to completion, is approximately two years. Street Transportation Department staff continue to work diligently to deliver the T2050 New and Expanded Major Streets projects as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
The Citizens Transportation Commission recommended approval for this item by a vote of 8-0 at its Nov. 15, 2018, meeting.
This item was recommended for approval at the Aviation and Transportation Subcommittee meeting on Nov. 27, 2018, by a vote of 3-0.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Street Transportation Department.