STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: June 26, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):|910|DEPARTMENT: Department of Transportation
EXECUTIVE: Majed Al-Ghafry
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a professional engineering services contract with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to provide a truck route traffic feasibility study and preliminary/schematic design services to reroute the truck traffic and create a context sensitive design/road diet on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from State Highway 352 to Botham Jean Boulevard for CSJ 0918-47-375 - Not to exceed $500,000.00 - Financing: MLK Blvd TREC Project from SH352 - RTR Fund
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BACKGROUND
If approved, this action will authorize a professional engineering services contract with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to provide a truck route traffic feasibility study and preliminary/schematic design services to reroute the truck traffic and create a context sensitive design/road diet on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (MLK Blvd) from State Highway 352 to Botham Jean Boulevard for CSJ 0918-47-375 ("Project").
In May 2023, the City of Dallas entered into an Advance Funding Agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to accept $500,000.00 in Regional Toll Revenue funds to complete the Project, with the City of Dallas leading implementation of the engineering.
On September 6, 2023, the City of Dallas issued a Request for Qualifications CIZ23-TRN-3042 - MLK Blvd Truck Route Traffic Feasibility Study and Preliminary/Schematic Engineering Design and received four proposals.
A five-member selection committee consisting of staff from the Department of Transportation, Development Services, Department of Planning and Urban Design, and Small Business Center Department reviewed and evaluated the proposals. Freese & Nichols, Inc. was selected by the committee as the most qualified proposer to provide professional engineering services for the Project...
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