Gateway to Tomorrow. School Travel Plan

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1 Gateway to Tomorrow Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen RULH Middle Brown County

2 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 1 Travel Plan Team Members The Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle have come together for the purpose of creating a safe walkway to and from the Village population to the RULH Middle that is located on the west side of the Village. Our committee is composed of the following stakeholders: Association Stakeholder Aberdeen Village Council J.R. Lawrence Aberdeen Police Department Keith Reinhardt RULH District Superintendent Stephen Oborn Health Dept. Board / RULH Nurse Donna Sutton Union Township Public Library Director Alison Gibson Brown County Commissioner Margery Paeltz RULH Middle Principal Mike Kennedy RULH Middle Media Specialist Vicki Asbury RULH Middle Gym Teacher Gabe Scott RULH Middle Staff Janice Mitchell RULH Middle Staff Patricia Gully Aberdeen Resident Roxanne Payne Aberdeen Resident Mindy Wright Safe Communities/Project Charlie Karla Hedges Safety Committee Donna Sutton Our contact is: Mike Kennedy, Principal RULH Middle 2300 Old US 52 Route Aberdeen, Ohio (937)

3 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 2 Introduction Gateway to Tomorrow is the name of our school travel plan. Our vision for the Village of Aberdeen, RULH Middle, Ohio Department of Transportation and Brown County Engineer s Office is to work together to create a healthy community by giving our students easier access to their school through walking and bicycling. Our objective is to give our students a new gateway to their educational institution by working with the Safe Routes to program so that all students, through the implementation of various programs, may be encouraged to create for themselves a healthier lifestyle. Currently zero percent (0%) of our students walk to the RULH Middle building. By implementing various programs and by changing the school policy on walking /biking to school, we hope to increase this number to at least thirty-five (35%) over the next year or so and then have a steady increase each year. Because of the middle school s location off of U.S. 52, it is impossible for students to walk or bike to school at this point. This fact means that students who live only a few blocks away from school sometimes have to wait up till 30 minutes after school lets out to be bused home. Depending upon the solutions reached, our intent is to change our current school policy to allow our students to walk or bike to school.

4 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 3 The Public Input process The public was informed about the SRTS program through various meetings and activities. The Village of Aberdeen has met several times over the last twelve (12) months to discuss the Safe Routes to Program. These meetings have been held on four different occasions during regular Aberdeen Village Council sessions and twice during Safety Committee meetings. Everyone involved in those sessions that voiced their concerns from the audience, including the Village Council members, were in favor of finding a solution for creating a healthier lifestyle for their students. Presently the roads leading to and from the building are not accessible for students to walk or bike to school. The RULH Board of Education agrees that this is an obstacle to promoting a healthier lifestyle for their students. Furthermore, the SRTS program has appeared in multiple articles in the three local newspapers. These newspapers include The Ledger Independent, Brown County Press, and The News Democrat. The RULH District has also posted information about the SRTS program on their website so community residents could be better informed and given the opportunity to participate in finding a solution to creating healthier lifestyles for their children. Surveys were also passed out in each class to see the amount of students interested in walking or riding their bicycle to school.

5 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 3 (continued) Health & Fitness RULH Middle, in its continued effort to foster health and fitness among all students, teams with local agencies to promote fitness education. Our PE and health curriculum both integrate the value of life-long fitness. We collaborate with the efforts of Healthy Ohioans to promote the Health Walk yearly with our students. Toward that effort, we have all students participate in the Health Walk for an entire week each year, and log the number of miles walked. Currently we simply walk laps around the gymnasium or the school parking lot. The proposed bike/walking path would allow us to incorporate that structure into our continued effort to promote the health benefits of life- long fitness.

6 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 4 The Scope The only school affected by the program is the RULH Middle. The school houses students in grades five through eight, of which forty-nine (49) percent have been identified as economically disadvantaged. The school is located at 2300 Old US 52 Route off of U.S. 52. The enrollment is: RULH Middle 443 total students Grade 5: 103 total students, 55 male, 48 female Grade 6: 101 total students, 48 male, 53 female Grade 7: 119 total students, 64 male, 55 female Grade 8: 110 total students, 58 male, 52 female

7 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 5 Demographics The RULH Middle demographics: Locale: Rural Appalachian Race: 5 th Grade: White, Non-Hispanic 96 Multiracial 6 Black, Non-Hispanic 1 6 th Grade: White, Non-Hispanic 95 Multiracial 2 Black, Non-Hispanic 4 7 th Grade: White, Non-Hispanic 114 Multiracial 1 Black, Non-Hispanic 4 8 th Grade White, Non-Hispanic 104 American Indian 2 Hispanic 2 Black, Non-Hispanic 2 Socioeconomic: 49% of students identified as economically disadvantaged Median income: $30,202 (for Aberdeen residents) Unemployment rate: 6.8 %

8 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 6 Current Travel Environment We chose to use the Survey about Walking and Biking to for Parents, which we posted on the official RULH website. We received the following responses: 1.) The majority of parents who responded to the questionnaire had a student in seventh grade, forty-two percent (42%). A total of twenty-one percent (21%) parents had a child in either fifth grade or eighth and sixteen percent (16%) had a student in sixth grade. 2.) The gender of the students filling out the survey was sixty-seven percent (67%) male and thirty-three (33%) female. 3.) Eighty-four percent (84%) of the parents responding had one student in school and eleven (11%) had two. A total of five percent (5%) had four or more students attending grades five through eight. 4.) A majority of our respondents came from the Aberdeen zip code (45101). A total of seventynine (79%) came from and sixteen percent (16%) came from a Ripley zip code (45167). One (1) response came from another zip code. 5.) Forty-two percent (42%) traveled more than two miles to the school. Twenty-one percent (21%) traveled a quarter of mile to a half of mile. Sixteen percent (16%) traveled less than a quarter mile to the school building. And eleven percent (11%) traveled from a half mile to a mile and the same number did not know the distance they are located from the school building.

9 6.) On most days, fifty-eight percent (58%) drove their student to school in the morning while forty-two percent (42%) had their children ride the school bus. 7.) On most days, sixty-three percent (63%) had their student ride the school bus home after school while thirty-seven percent (37%) picked up their child after the school day was complete. 8.) Of the parents who responded, thirty-two percent (32%) stated their child traveled from 11- to-16 minutes from home to school. Sixteen percent (16%) said their child traveled from 5- to-11 minutes from home to school. Twenty-six percent (26%) said their child traveled less than five minutes from home to school. Sixteen percent (16%) of parents stated that their child travels more than 20 minutes from home to school and eleven percent (11%) was unsure. 9.) Of the parents who responded, sixteen percent (16%) stated their child traveled from 11-to- 16 minutes from school to home. Twenty-one percent (21%) said their child traveled from 5- to-11 minutes from school to home. Eleven percent (11%) said their child traveled less than five minutes from school to home. Forty-seven percent (47%) of parents stated that their child travels more than 20 minutes from school to home and five percent (5%) were unsure. 10.) Fifty-three percent (53%) of responding parents said their child has asked for permission to walk or bike to school in the last year. Forty-seven percent (47%) responded their child has not asked for permission to walk or bike to school in the last year. 11.) A combined forty-two percent (42%) of responding parents said they would allow their child to walk or bike to school without a student in either fifth or sixth grade. 12.) Sixty-three percent (63%) of responding parents said that speed of traffic and the amount of traffic along U.S. 52 was their reason why they did not allow their child to walk or bike to school.

10 13.) Sixty-eight percent (68%) of responding parents said they would probably allow their child to bike or walk to school if the distance problem was changed or improved. * (Note) - The official policy for the RULH Middle is not to allow any students the ability to walk or ride a bicycle to-or-from the school premises due to the unsafe conditions. However, it is impossible for RULH Middle officials to stop every student who attempts to walk home after school or to school. Although, RULH school policy does not allow this activity, certain students who live near the school, break this rule endangering both themselves and drivers. This is the reason the school surveys list the number of walkers and bikers at 0% while student and parent surveys show a slightly higher figure. The RULH Middle is located off of U.S. 52 with traffic traveling in excess of 50 m.p.h. Students who attempt to walk home are forced to walk near the highway without sidewalks and dodge traffic for more than half a mile before reaching safer community streets. But even these community streets are not lined with sidewalks leaving both the students and drivers in danger. Gateway to Tomorrow

11 Travel Plan Village of Aberdeen and RULH Middle Section 10: The Action Plan Strategy Type 5 E s Strategy Name Strategy Detail Time Frame Responsible Party Status Estimate d Cost Possible Funding Source % of Students Affected Engineering Engineering Engineering Engineering Engineering Engineering Shared Use Path, Phase 1 Urban Side Walk Design Phase 1 Install Bike Racks, Phase 1 (@school & library.) Install Zone Signs Phase 1 Extend Path Phase 2, add cross walks Extend Path Phase 3, add cross walks Installing sidewalks/ Bike path from to Library. Installing a 5 side walk from to Library. Bike Racks Static & Dynamic Pedestrian Signs From Library to 1 st trailer park mile From 1 st trailer park to second FY th qtr FY th qtr FY th qtr FY th qtr FY th qtr FY th qtr Village of Aberdeen and RULH Village of Aberdeen and RULH Village of Aberdeen and RULH Village of Aberdeen and RULH Village of Aberdeen and RULH Village of Aberdeen and RULH Final Review Final Review Final Review Final Review Have not applied yet. Have not applied yet. $264,000 Federal Funding $184,000 Federal Funding $5000 Federal Funding $3000 Federal Funding $200,000 Federal Funding $120,000 Federal Funding 22% 22% 22% 22% 25% more 25% more F/total of 72% Education Health Class Teach Benefits of Walking and Bicycling FY st qtr Village of Aberdeen and RULH To be implem ented when path is built. $7500 General Fund / Federal funding 100%

12 Education Bicycle Training Teach Bicycle Safety FY st qtr Village of Aberdeen and RULH To be implem ented when path is built. See Above. General Fund / Federal funding 100% Encouragement Health Walk One week each year that logs miles walked and promotes good health. Encouragement Encouragement, Walk to Day Walking Bus All Students and Staff Participate Adults and High Students Walk to With Children Annually. RULH Current but intend to use new path instead of gym. FY nd qtr or when path is available FY nd qtr or when path is available, Village, Police Dept, State Hwy Patrol PTO Members, Learn and Serve Students, Adult Volunteers To be implem ented when path is built. To be implem ented when path is built. $200 for prizes. $300 for supplies. $300 for prizes. general fund/fed eral funding. General Fund / Federal funding General Fund / Federal funding 100% 100% 22% Will increase w/each phase. Encouragement, Awards Reward Students that Walk FY nd qtr or when path is available PTO, District To be implem ented when path is built. $500 PTO, District General Fund and Learn / Serve 22% Will increase w/each phase. Enforcement Safety Patrol Control Students that walk/bike to school. Enforcement Police Dept Control Student and Parent Traffic FY nd qtr or when path is available FY nd qtr or when path is available Advisor and Members of Safety Patrol Police Officers To be implem ented when path is built. Current Part of $7500 Part of $7500 District General Fund District General Fund 22% Will increase w/each phase. 100%

13 Evaluation Evaluation Evaluation Number Students Walking Biking Accident Rates Online Data Evaluation Log the Number of Miles Students Walk/Bike Log the Number of Accidents Acquire Data Results from Online Evaluation Annually Ongoing District General Fund Annually Annually and Police Dept District Ongoing District Police Dept 22% Will increase w/each phase. 22% Will increase w/each phase. Ongoing No Cost 22% Will increase w/each phase. Section 10: Action Plan Goal Description Grades 5, 6, 7, & 8 It is the desire of the RUHL Middle s Gateway to Tomorrow Action Plan to implement all of the five E s in the following goals. Goal 1 Goal 2 Infrastructure Project, Phase 1, is to construct a shared use path or urban sidewalk from the school to the library. As part of Phase 1, it is also proposed to install bike racks at the school and at the library and install Zone Signs. Phase 1 will allow approximately 22% of the students to either walk or bike to school. This will be increased another 25% under Phase 2 and, with more education and encouragement and the implementation of Phase 3, another 25% could be added with a possible achievement of 72% of the student body being able to utilize the path/sidewalk. This will greatly reduce the amount of traffic at the school, reduce the amount of time waiting for and traveling on the school buses and will also increase the student s use of the local library. Non-Infrastructure Projects. Under Phase 1 it is proposed to incorporate health and safe walking/biking classes for the students so that they will know how to walk/bike safely to school and how to improve their health and self esteem as well as various activities to promote walking/biking to school. This will be achieved by implementing the following. A. Annual Health Walk and/or annual Walk to Day. B. Health and Safety Classes C. Walking Bus Program (Volunteers walking groups of students to and from school.)

14 D. Walk/Bike Awards Program (Awards for reaching pre-set goals 10 mile club, etc. E. Assistance by the local law enforcement. F. Continual evaluation of program to improve the processes implemented. G. Other programs as STP is evaluated. Programs will be implemented to inspire a healthier lifestyle for our students. Goal 3 Goal 4 Goal 5 Once Goal 1 & Goal 2 has been implemented, the school will apply to SRTS program to establish Phase 2 which will extend the shared path/walkway approximately 0.44 mile east to the first trailer park where a large number of students reside. This will allow another 25% (total 47%) to either walk or bike to school safely and reduce the amount of traffic by the same percentage. The implementation of Phase 3 which will extend the constructed path to the second trailer park which increase the availability of students to walk or bike to school by 72% as well as reduce traffic congestion. Re-evaluate goals on a regular basis to ensure that they are in line with SRTS Travel Plan. Consult with Travel Plan Team Members, ODOT, and other agency/groups for input on how to improve programs/travel plan.

15 Section 11: Plan Endorsement

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17 Section 12: Attachment, Engineering Study

18 Safe Routes to Study Ripley Union Lewis Huntington s Aberdeen Middle Ohio Department of Transportation District 9 Applicant: Ripley Union Lewis Huntington s Prepared by: Transportation Resources Management August 26, 2008

19 Executive Summary Purpose and Need The Ripley Union Lewis Huntington (RULH) Middle has zero percent walkability and bikeability rates to school because there are no safe walkways to school along US 52 in the Village of Aberdeen. As part of the SRTS program, the school s goal is to increase it to 35 percent over the next year and then to have a steady increase each year. This goal would be achieved by implementing its Gateway to Tomorrow strategy depicted in the Travel Plan. In support of this goal, a technical study was conducted in order to identify, develop and cost strategic physical improvements which are within the SRTS program funding parameters and which in conjunction with educational and encouragement programs could increase the walkability and bikeability rates to school. Background RULH s serve a rural area of southern Brown County along the Ohio River extending across three townships. The school facilities are geographically dispersed: an Elementary and a High are located in the Village of Ripley and the Middle subject of this technical study -- is located in the Village of Aberdeen. In order to serve students from such large and sparsely populated area, RULH s operate bus routes which link the three schools and it is common to have in-bus travel times around 30 minutes for certain students. Busing is the preferred mode of transportation to school due to low population densities and the socioeconomic attributes of the region: an estimated 49 percent of students are identified as economically disadvantaged. Existing Conditions The RULH Middle is located at the fringes of the Village of Aberdeen facing US 52, a regional corridor along the Ohio River and in close proximity to a bridge over the Ohio River. Within a one-mile distance from the school there is residential neighborhood around West Stivers Avenue, Huntington Parkway and Bradford lane. Further away there are two trailer parks. An average of 100 students resided in these neighborhoods during the academic year based on reported figures by the school administration. There are no sidewalks between these residential developments and the RULH Middle. There is, however, anecdotal evidence that a small but undetermined number of students currently walk to school in defiance of prevailing rules, which were instituted due to safety concerns with walking/bicycling along US 52. A plausible explanation for such behavior is that these students choose to walk/bicycle to school because they want to circumvent the long in-bus travel times. Deficiencies, Countermeasures and Costs Of the 433 students enrolled in the Middle during the academic year, an estimated 96 students in grades 5-8 rode the bus to school from the residential neighborhoods located approximately onemile from school. They represent approximately 22 percent of the overall student body. This estimate was derived from school route driver logs serving the residential neighborhoods surrounding West Stivers Avenue, Huntington Parkway, Bramel Road,

20 Chestnut Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. It represents the size of the eligible student body that could benefit from improved routes to school projects. A walkway along US 52 linking the RULH Middle with its neighboring residential subdivisions was viewed as the preferred countermeasure. Huntington Parkway was selected as the logical terminus of the recommended walkway because it is the gateway to the residential subdivisions off West Stivers Avenue and as such it could provide direct access to the school without any crossings of US 52. Huntington Parkway at US 52 is also the site of the Union Township Public Library, which could play a key partnership role with the Middle in extended educational curriculum offerings. With an overall facility length of 2,650 feet (i.e., ½ mile), two walkway configurations were evaluated and their respective planning level costs were derived: a 10-foot wide asphalt multipurpose trail and a 5-foot wide concrete urban sidewalk. Preliminary cost estimates for the multipurpose bike trail and the urban sidewalk design concepts were $264,000 and $184,000 respectively. The above cost estimates reflect funding levels substantially higher than the average and customary project costs associated with the Safe Routes to Program. Therefore, incremental project implementation alternatives were explored in an effort to administer the project in stages and to contain upfront costs. It was concluded that breaking this project into phases would not yield sub-projects with independent utilities and distinct purposes. Consequently, should the recommended walkway is selected for funding, its entire cost would need to be encumbered in a single phase. 2

21 Section 7: Barriers to Active Transportation 1. Existing Conditions: Site Location & Access System: Ripley Union Lewis Huntington s participates in the Safe Routes to Program (SRTS) with the Middle, which is located in the Village of Aberdeen. The school is located 1.5 miles north of the commercial district of Aberdeen, off US 52 and just east of an existing bridge to Kentucky over the Ohio River. The Middle enrollment is 443 students with an estimated 49 percent of the student body identified as economically disadvantaged. Site Figure 1 Campus Location The school site has two access drives on US 52, which are illustrated in Figure 2. They are in the jurisdiction of the Ohio Department of Transportation. The school building has frontage along a short segment of Old US 52, which is almost parallel to US 52. A school building is enveloped by a driving lane, which 1

22 provides access to the rear parking lot. Faculty and staff parking is located there. bus and parent drop-off and pick-up operations also take place at the rear parking lot. In addition to school-related vehicular traffic the two site access drives also provide access to an abutting cluster development cluster as shown in Figure 2. RULH Middle Neighboring Cluster Development Old US 52 Northern Access US 52 Southern Access Figure 2 Site Access System During the initial walkability meeting it was reported by school administrators that the carrying capacity of the school access drives are adequate to accommodate morning and afternoon peak period bus and parental traffic flows. Therefore, there is no perceived need for site improvements. Lack of on-site congestion was attributed to the fact that school buses arrival and departure times are staggered: they are evenly distributed in the hour which precedes start time in the morning and which follows dismissal time in the afternoon. US 52 carried an estimated 6,510 vehicles per day in front of the Middle in 2005, which is the most recent year that ODOT has available traffic volume data. The truck volume was 550 vehicles per day, representing a 8.4 percent truck percentage. 2

23 Missing or Insufficient Sidewalks: Site F i g u US 52 W Stivers Ave. Public Library Figure 3 Regional Access System The school being at the northern fringes of an elongated riverfront community such as Aberdeen is somewhat detached from the center of the community because there are no sidewalks along US 52. The estimated 6,510 vehicles per day using US 52 travel without interruptions by traffic signals. As a result, the pedestrian environment in the vicinity of the school is not conducive to walking or bicycling to school. The local topography does not help either: two open channel drainage ditches, which run perpendicular to US 52 exist in the school vicinity. The first one is located past the eastern site access drive and the second is located west of West Stivers Avenue. The depth, width and presence of standing water at these open channels function as natural barriers to walking to school. During the initial walkability meeting it was reported that lack of a sidewalk between the Middle and the Union Township Public Library hinder students ability to use the facility as an extension of their school curriculum and for after school programs. The library is located at the intersection of US 52 and Huntington Parkway at the gateway point to the adjacent residential subdivisions off West Stivers Avenue and Huntington Parkway (Figure 3). 3

24 Bus Routes: RULH s serve students in a large low-density rural area, which encompasses three townships (i.e., Lewis, Union and Huntington), two communities (i.e., Ripley and Aberdeen) in southern Brown County along the Ohio River. RULH s has its educational facilities geographically dispersed: an Elementary and a High in Ripley and a Middle in Aberdeen. The school bus fleet serves all three facilities by operating 16 routes. Five routes serve each of the Aberdeen, Ripley and Higginsport proper areas and one route is a special-needs bus. From the five routes serving the Aberdeen area home base to the RULH Middle only two routes collect and disseminate students in the residential subdivisions and trailer parks located within reasonable walking distance to the Middle. These are Bus Routes # 1 and #30. Driver logs from the academic year for Bus Routes #1 and #30 were requested from the school administration and they were reviewed in order to derive estimates of how many Middle (i.e., grades 5-8) students were bused from these areas during the most recent academic year. The review focused on the A.M. route driver logs because they were more detailed and complete than the P.M. records. The accuracy of the reported data could not be independently verified since driver log reliability depends on the meticulousness, completeness and level of effort put by each recording bus driver. Consequently, the driver log data was viewed by this study only as indicators of how many students could benefit from a public investment in a safe route to school project rather than as estimates of the student population. Bus Route # 1 Bus Route # Background Design Plan Availability: The RULH Middle was built several years later than US 52. Therefore, US 52 right-of-way and roadway design plans in the domain of ODOT do not contain design references of the school s site access system, building footprint, property boundaries and site utilities in relation to key highway elements such as right-of-way and roadway centerline. 4

25 2. Assessment of Accident Data: There were no reported crashes in the ODOT Safe Routes database for the Village of Aberdeen. Section 8: Solutions and Countermeasures 1. Improvement Suggestions The recommended improvements are as follows: 1. Install a walkway between the RULH Middle and Huntington Parkway of a total length of approximately 2,650 feet (i.e., 1/2 of a mile). Cost estimates were developed for two design concepts: a 10-foot wide multipurpose bike trail and a 5-foot wide concrete urban sidewalk. 2. Install a Zone Signage program with speed limit reduction to 20 miles per hour on US 52. Such signs are installed at the school property lines along where the speed reduction is desired. It would be a joint decision between the Village of Aberdeen and ODOT to select dynamic (i.e., flashing) signs operational during school hours only or static signs which are operational at all times, or a combination of both. 2. Planning-Level Cost Estimates: The project cost estimates shown in the tables below are preliminary for budgetary purposes. They were developed by ODOT based on statewide unit cost estimates. Walkway (Multipurpose Bike Trail Design Concept) Work Category Roadway Work Element Quantities Unit Cost Cost Estimates Clearing & Grubbing 1 LS $2,000 $2,000 Excavation 1,100 CY $15 $16,500 Embankment 1,300 CY $20 $26,000 5 Concrete Walk 5,100 SF $4.50 $23,000 Total Roadway $67,500 5

26 Drainage Pavement Traffic Control Concrete Masonry 25 CY $950 $24, Conduit, Type D 100 FT $73 $7,300 6 Conduit, Type C 60 FT $11.50 $700 Paved Gutter, Type FT $56 $850 Total Drainage $33,000 Asphalt Base, PG CY $140 $48,500 Aggregate Base 550 CY $42 $23,000 Tack Coat 2,000 GAL $1.70 $3,500 Prime Coat 12,000 GAL $3 $35,000 Asphalt Surface, Coarse 100 CY $120 $12,000 Compacted Aggregate 100 CY $56 $5,500 Water 2 MGAL $27 $50 Total Pavement $127,000 Ground Mounted Support 120 FT $8 $1,000 Sign, Flat Sheet 32 SF $18 $600 Crosswalk Line 250 FT $3 $700 Total Traffic Control $2,300 SUB-TOTAL $230,000 Contingency (15 percent) $34,000 GRAND TOTAL $264,000 Walkway (Urban Sidewalk Design Concept) Work Category Roadway Drainage Traffic Control Work Element Quantities Unit Cost Cost Estimates Excavation 1,100 CY $15 $16,500 Embankment 1,300 CY $20 $26,000 5 Concrete Walk 18,275 SF $4.50 $82,200 Total Roadway $124,700 Concrete Masonry 25 CY $950 $24, Conduit, Type D 100 FT $73 $7,300 6 Conduit, Type C 60 FT $11.50 $700 Paved Gutter, Type FT $56 $850 Total Drainage $33,000 Sign, Flat Sheet 32 SF $18 $600 Ground Mounted Support 125 FT $8 $1,000 Crosswalk Line 250 FT $3 $700 Total Traffic Control $2,300 SUB-TOTAL $160,000 Contingency (15 percent) $24,000 GRAND TOTAL $184,000 6

27 Zone Signage Program :Items Quantities Unit Cost Cost Estimates Pedestrian Signs (Dynamic) 2 $1,000 $2,000 Pedestrian Signs (Static) 2 $300 $600 SUB-TOTAL $2,600 Contingency (15 percent) $400 GRAND TOTAL $3,000 The above cost estimates reflect funding needs substantially higher than the average and customary project costs associated with the Safe Routes to (SRTS) Program. Therefore, incremental project implementation alternatives were explored in an effort to administer the project in stages and to reduce upfront costs. It was concluded that breaking this project into phases would not yield sub-projects with independent utilities and distinct purpose. Consequently, should the recommended walkway is selected for funding, its entire cost would need to be encumbered in a single phase. 7

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