Word on the Street: Improvement to 176th Street East (Waller Road East to 51st Avenue East)

What's Happening
We're improving 1.41 miles of 176th Street East from Waller Road East to 51st Avenue East (CRP 5537). Improvements, designed to improve safety and relieve traffic congestion, include:

• Expanding to four lanes and paved shoulders with a raised median or U/left-turn lane at designated locations.
• Adding concrete curbs, gutters and sidewalks.
• Adding street lighting.
• Adding new traffic signals at Waller Road East and 36th Avenue East and improving the traffic signal at 38th Avenue East.
• Adding an enclosed storm drain system as well as stormwater treatment and storage facilities.

The 176th Street East corridor improvements also include the following County Road Projects (CRP's):

• CRP 5471 - B Street East to 14th Avenue East
• CRP 5536 - 14th Avenue East to Waller Road East
• CRP 5762 -1000 feet east of Canyon Rd E to Gem Heights Drive East currently under construction

July 2009

• Engineering: Construction plans are at 75% completion. Geotechnical work is continuing for drainage facilities.
• Land: The majority of the offers to purchase property have been made, and we are actively negotiating with property owners. 81% of property needed has been acquired.

• 2003 to 2010: Design engineering, development of plans and estimates, environmental permitting.
• 2006 to 2009: Negotiations and property acquisitions.
• Construction during 2010 to 2012