July 30, 2008 · Derek

Pacific Ave Project Open House

Remember the Pacific Avenue paving project we told you about last November? The one where they wanted to do half before and half after Tall Ships? Well, now the time has come.

When the Link was built, the underlying soil in the streets adjacent to the tracks wasn’t reinforced and now this needs to be corrected. The Pacific Avenue improvement project involves removing the existing asphalt surface and base section of the street and replacing it with a new base section and asphalt. Sidewalks, curb, and gutter will also be repaired where needed. The work will take place on Pacific Avenue between South 17th and South 25th streets and South 25th Street from Pacific Avenue to C Street.

Construction is slated to start in mid-August and is scheduled to be complete by early November. The work is scheduled to take place at night from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. in two phases:

1st phase (north half):17th to 21st Street
2nd phase (south half):21st to 25th including Pacific to C Street.

The City will host a Pacific Avenue improvement project open house where the project team will share the schedule and phasing for the project.

Hang in there. It will all be over soon. Well, not really, but the two and a half months will just breeze by, right?

Details
August 6, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Tacoma Municipal Building
747 Market St.
Room 708

Visit CityofTacoma.org for more information about the open house or the Pacific Avenue improvement project.

Filed under: City Council, Legislation, City Government

6 comments

fred davie January 6, 2014

Over $9,000 to paint crosswalk markings on ONE crosswalk ($1,242,000 / 142 intersections) ? Isn't there somebody at city hall whose job it is to get a good price on little jobs like this?
fred davie January 6, 2014

The city manager just told the council they would have to take a hard look at employee compensation in light of the fact that we have serious budget shortfalls predicted for the next two bienniums. And now we read that the council is poised to give raises to 382 city workers. Would somebody please explain this apparent inconsistency and inform us as to how giving raises will help close the multi million dollar budget gap?
JDHasty January 6, 2014

Is sunsetting funding for the ADA Ramp Program where they got the funding for: "A purchase resolution appearing on this week's agenda would allocate $1,241,971, budgeted from the Streets Special Revenue Fund, to 'improve signage and paint markings at various locations within the City.'?" As a taxpaying resident I think it sets a particularly bad precedent to reward "unsafe and even criminal" behavior.
Dan January 6, 2014

There are at least 3 crosswalks at every intersection; more often 4 and sometimes more. They need to pay for the paint on the road, the signs, and in many cases new ADA curb ramps. The American's with Disabilities Act requires that ramps be upgraded to the maximum extent feasible any time a crosswalk alteration is constructed, which would include painting a new one where none was present before. Considering the difficulty of designing and constructing many of these ramps, $9,000 per intersection sounds like a bargain to me. I'd be pleasantly surprised if they can afford all 142 when the bids come in.
- JDHasty January 7, 2014
  
  Crosswalks are not an immediate problem. Preserving and maintaining our existing pavement infrastructure is and immediate problem. Both the City Manager and Kurtis Kingsolver stood in front of people who attended the series of Prop 1 public meetings and presented the case that once pavement has failed it costs north of 17 times as much to rebuild a failed street than it does to maintain that same street. So either the City Manager and the newly crowned Public Works Director were being disingenuous, i.e. lying to us in order to get our vote on Prop 1, or they are prepared to fund marked crosswalks instead of overlaying ten to twelve lane miles of our City's worst streets BEFORE they fail which will add north of $20 Million dollars to the pavement "backlog" we have built up under the direction of these two and their predecessors. This kind of programming and budgeting of available revenues is economic malpractice.
sid January 7, 2014

I have seen activity at Flying Boots Cafe on S.38th. Any word?