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CONTRACT K-1920-34: A MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND THE OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ODOT) FOR FEDERAL-AID PROJECT NHPPG-214N(098)AG, STATE JOB 32533(04) FOR THE 12TH AVENUE N.E. TRAFFIC SIGNAL INTERCONNECT UPGRADE PROJECT BETWEEN ALAMEDA STREET AND ROBINSON STREET AND ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION R-1920-26.
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BACKGROUND: The 2015 - Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) federal transportation funding bill allocates approximately $21 million in Federal funds per year for the implementation of eligible transportation improvements in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Ten percent of this appropriation is used to fund safety projects at 100% of their construction cost. Installation and upgrades of traffic signal interconnect systems are eligible for this level of funding.
The City of Norman began interconnecting its traffic signals in the late 1980's using copper wire in underground conduit and telephone modems for communications. Today, the City has signal interconnect systems along most of its arterial roadways (thirteen systems in total). These systems facilitate the continuous movement of traffic along heavily traveled roadways, minimize overall delay and reduce traffic collision rates (approximately 30% reduction nationally).
While some traffic signals fall into multiple corridors, the thirteen interconnect systems in Norman include traffic signals along the following corridors:
* Boyd Street (Eight Signals)
* Alameda Street (Eight Signals)
* State Highway 9 (Ten Signals)
* Lindsey Street (SH 74A) (Sixteen Signals)
* Main Street (Sixteen Signals)
* Gray Street (Six Signals)
* Robinson Street (Thirteen Signals)
* 12th Avenue East (SH 77H) (Eight Signals)
* 24th Avenue West (Eight Signals)
* Tecumseh Road (Five Signals)
* 36th Avenue West (Five Signals)
* Jenkins Avenue (Eight Signals)
* Classen Boulevard (Five Signals)
In 2009, the Traffic Control Division began the process of upgrading...
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