Hague Avenue improvements
Description:
The
city of Columbus will reconstruct and improve Hague Avenue between Broad
Street and Sullivant Avenue. The improvements will increase safety for motorists, pedestrians
and bicyclists, help protect parked vehicles and upgrade water and sewer lines. Plans include:
- Lowering and reconstructing
roadway down to its base, install new full curbs to improve drainage, build new
sidewalks, Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant curb ramps and driveway
aprons and plant street trees
- Building bump-out curbs at the
intersections of Hague Avenue with Olive Street, Palmetto Street, Fremont
Street, Wicklow Road and Roland Sunker
Place. Bump-outs help protect parked
vehicles, reduce crosswalk length and calm traffic.
- Adding pavement markings
and
bicycle sharrows all along Hague plus school-zone markings for West Broad
Elementary School
- Updating water lines installed
100 years ago for properties on the east side of Hague Avenue; west side was
updated in 2000
- Upgrading storm sewers and curbs
to improve drainage
- Ohio Department of Transportation and
City of Columbus:
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Upgrading traffic signals at
Hague and Broad and Hague and Sullivant with LED bulbs, pedestrian countdown
timers and push-button signals
at crosswalk signals. The signal at Hague and Sullivant will be upgraded to
provide a dedicated left turn for Sullivant Avenue traffic;
work tentatively planned for 2017
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Installing permeable asphalt pavement in parking lane to meet storm water regulations
Schedule:
- Design:
Completed
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Construction:
Scheduled to begin in April 2016, with signal
installation planned for 2017 with ODOT.
- Detours and parking restrictions on Hague Avenue will be in place
during construction in 2016.
Estimated Costs:
- City
of Columbus: $3.2 million, not including signal improvements
-
Signal
improvements
via ODOT project above: $510,000, with 90% funded
by ODOT and 10% by the City.
Contact Information:
- City
of Columbus construction
project manager Paul Chilton, P.E., tel. (614) 645-0411
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City
of Columbus design consultants: Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc. (roadway)
and E.P. Ferris & Associates (traffic signals)
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Construction
Contractor: Shelly & Sands, Inc.