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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Toffer [mailto:JONATHAN.TOFFER@dallascounty.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:34 PM
To: Nancy Cline
Cc: Antoinette Bacchus
Subject: Please confirm overall length, trail and bridge dimensions
Importance: High

 

Nancy,

 

Preliminary legal review of the draft PSA was positive except for inadequate scoping information.  Please confirm the overall project length, dimensions of the trail and pedestrian portions
of the bridges.  The 8/14/09 letter to Commissioner Dickey had listed the following:

 

Trail: 8 feet wide, 5400 ft. long nearly one mile long

 

South Pedestrian bridge:  15 ft 9 ¼ inch wide (12 feet wide), 150 ft. long (length unspecified (please specify or estimate if possible))

 

Pedestrian portion of Ponte Lane Bridge:  Two 12 feet wide long pedestrian paths 220 ft in length (the bridge span is 139 ft) ( remove-70 feet in length) providing connections to trails)

 

Pedestrian portion of Bella Lane Bridge:  Two 12 feet wide long pedestrian paths 182 ft in length (the bridge span is 139 ft) (remove-70 feet in length) providing connections to trails

 

For the pedestrian portions of the bridge why does the letter specify 32' is dedicated to pedestrian traffic when the total of the two paths is 24'?   The pedestrian pathways on the
bridge were detailed wider.  The current plan shows 14 ft 6 in but we are thinking of reducing it to 12 ft.  Is this okay?

 

Please also indicate whether there will be any possibility of bicycle/pedestrian improvements along Vitruvian Way and/or south to the Brookhaven Loop Trail? Yes, definitely.  The plans
for Vitruvian Way include a pedestrian walkway that is 10 ft 6 in. wide from the park to Spring Valley.  (an additional 1100 ft of length)  The remainder of each side of the road has
a pedestrian walkway that ranges from 7 ft 6 in to 10 ft 6 in.  (a total of 2500 (south) and 3600 ft (north) for a total of 6100 ft of new sidewalk along Brookhaven Club Drive (Vitruvian
Way)   None of these sidewalks lengths have been included in the submittal.   

 

Tomorrow (1/27) I will be at TxDOT all day for LGPP training but will use email to help keep progress.  If you have any immediate questions please contact Antoinette otherwise I will
be available Thursday afternoon.  If you can provide us these answers by no later than Thursday morning (1/28) we will have a better chance of getting you the PSA by 2/2.   

 

Thanks,

 

Jonathan Toffer
Transportation Planner
Dallas County
Department of Public Works
411 Elm Street, 4th Floor
Dallas, Texas  75202

214.653.6417