MAG Grand Avenue MIS Phase II

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MAG Grand Avenue MISPhase II

• Pre-Proposal Meeting
• March 27, 2003 130 p.m.
• MAG 2nd Floor Cholla Room

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Overview

• Loop 101 to 19th Avenue
• ¼ mile width on either side
• Additional corridors connecting to I-17 and I-10
  as identified in the course of study
• Partially controlled access facility
• Multi-modal
• Draft report due in 18 months
• Initial list of projects for the RTP, if feasible
  (draft RTP finished June 2003)
• Budget 480,000
• Agency Steering Group
• MAG, ADOT, Phoenix, Glendale Peoria

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Tasks

• Review and document existing information
• Identify issues
• Consultation Technical Analyses
• Identify Assess Alternatives
• Regional modeling vs microsimulation
• Recommendations
• Consultation throughout

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Issues Roadway

• Beautification
• landscaping, hardscaping, lighting, signage,
  screening walls, structural enhancements
  elimination of unsightly land uses.
• Opportunities to relocate overhead utilities
  underground
• Design charette
• Vision for the corridor
• Guidance for future development  

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Issues Roadway

• Grade Separations
• Identify potential locations
• Consider Northern Avenue, Bethany Home Road and
  19th Avenue
• Connectivity to the State Highway System
• I-17, I-10 and Loop 101 
• Intersections
• Identify turning lane needs
• ITS
• Identify needs consistent with the MAG ITS
  Strategic Plan 

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Issues Roadway

• ITS / Signals
• Options for reducing no. of signals
• NOT detailed signal timing, phasing, and
  connectivity (separate study needed)
• Access Control
• Options to reduce direct access, including
• Right turn lanes, frontage roads, road closures,
  alternative points of access, removal of
  activities and combining curb cuts.
• Redevelopment opportunities.  
• Medians
• Opportunities to close medians not located at
  signalized intersections

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Issues Roadway

• Street Connections.
• Street access and capacity needs to, from and
  across Grand Avenue
• Special consideration where new grade separations
  are programmed
• Safety 
• Goods Movement
• Rail and truck modes.
• Drainage

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MAG NWATS Draft Enhanced Highways Network (2/03)
Enhanced Arterial/Lim Exp

• Avg./High Volume 8k/23k
• Cost 102 million

Limited Access Expressway

• Avg./High Volume 170k/290k
• Cost 272 million

Rural Expressway

• Avg./High Volume 48k/82k
• Cost 314 million

• Avg./High Volume 212k/320k
• Cost 880 million

• Avg./High Volume 196k/240k
• Cost 176 million

• Avg./High Volume 4k/12k
• Cost 215 million

• Avg./High Volume 79k/132k
• Cost 216 million

• Avg./High Volume 10k/32k
• Cost 320 million

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Grand Ave. MIS 1999

• See www.grandavenuecorridor.com
• 27th Avenue and Thomas Road
• 43rd Avenue and Camelback Road
• 51st Avenue and Bethany Home Road
• 55th Avenue and Maryland Avenue
• 59th Avenue and Glendale Avenue
• 67th Avenue and Northern Avenue
• 75th Avenue and Olive Avenue
• 91st Avenue Ramps to the 101 Freeway

SourceADOT
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Issues Alternative Modes

• High Capacity Options
• Skip stop, express bus, BRT, Commuter Rail
• Related Studies
• MAG High Capacity Transit Study
• RPTA/VM Regional Transit System Study
• MAG RTP
• BNSF Assessments
• Bicycle/Pedestrian

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MAG High Capacity Transit Study Draft Recommended
Network
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MAG High Capacity Transit Study Draft Phasing
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Deliverables

• Draft Working Papers
• Final report Executive Summary
• Working Papers edited as needed for consistency
  in content, writing and graphics
• CD-ROMs for wide distribution
• Electronic Files
• GIS / Database
• Original software Adobe PDF
• Modeling software related files

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Proposals Due

• Friday, April 11, 2003 130 p.m.
• MAG Office, Suite 300, 302 North 1st Ave,
  Phoenix, AZ
• Emailed or faxed proposals will not be accepted
• Opening of the proposals
• 2 p.m., MAG 2nd Floor Palo Verde Room
• Interviews (if needed)
• Friday, April 25, 2003
• MAG 2nd Floor Cholla Room
• Consultant Project Manager MUST attend

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For more information

• Chris Voigt
• MAG Project Manager
• 602-254-6300
• cvoigt_at_mag.maricopa.gov
• www.mag.maricopa.gov