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VOLUME 29, NO. 48 In the Community. With the Community. F'or the Community. EDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011
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CITY TO SURVEY STREETS WITH AUTOMATIC ROAD ANALYZER VAN
CALLIE LEAKY
Staff Writer `[The van] is going to take
� City Coppell engi- forward pictures, rear facing
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• needs have of hired Fugro, a
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firm, to survey the streets
and alley ways of Coppell pictures.
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,” + done and making sure that According to the Fugro RoadProfiler.
r we're looking at the entire website, "The ARAN "[The van] is going to
0 ,44.0 - ^"... city and not just individual (Automatic Road Analyzer) take forward pictures, rear -
" „,, areas where we get com- incorporates a modular sys- facing pictures and down-
, s plaints," said George tem of hardware and soft- facing pictures," Marshall
1 Marshall, project manager. ware add -ons to meet the said. "And that allows us to
;, . In order to survey the requirements of various collect information about
SUBMITTED PHOTO entire city, Coppell will uti- infrastructure data collec- cracks and so- forth."
The Automatic Road Analyzer is equipped with multidirectional cameras, GPS and a lize Fugro's Automatic tion needs." ARAN is Marshall said the pic-
Road Profiler. Road Analyzer or ARAN equipped with multidirec- See ARAN, Page 4A
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and there are no residency administering flu shots schedule or to open the
or citizenship require- before and after the church clinic two nights a week
ments. services, two members of "That puts a premium on
Parks said the Medical the church offered to volun- volunteers but if we could
Clinics of North Texas teer their time and skills as get physicians to volunteer,
office, located in the Las EKG technicians, unknow- I think word would get out
Colinas Professional build- ing of the two men who had because not everybody can
ing, includes several physi- come to the clinic the come on Wednesday
cians that volunteer their Wednesday before. nights," Parks said.
time. The MCNT office When Otto called Parks The clinic and its staff
accounts for over half of to tell him the good news are available for anyone for
the volunteer practitioners about the EKG technicians, any reason. Otto said the
at the 2435 Clinic. Parks sent Otto a text mes-
Volunteer Rolanda Otto clinic has seen everything
sage stating a doctor from from the average cough and
said the 2435 Clinic Denton had donated an g
received a donation from EKG machine to the clinic. cold to Malaria.
the Las Colinas Medical By the time the staff at the "Our ultimate goal is to
Center, charging it the base 2435 Clinic saw the two love on folks and to glorify
cost for lab work „which is patients again for their fol- god through what we do,”
what helped start the clinic. low up, they had everything Parks said.
Burningtree lane will be from rain or irrigation.
A RAN only be surveyed once. "With the clay soils that
"The pictures that are are around the north Texas
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 A collected are all tied to GPS area, that's the biggest chal-
coordinates," Marshall said. lenge we have," Marshall
tures will then be run "We will actually have view- said. "What happens is 18-
through crack detection ing software that allows us wheelers come through and
software which will help to see a picture and also see it causes pumping. That
identify where the cracks a location in the city where concrete panel will actually
are located. that picture was taken." go up and down, and even -
"They will run a profil- Once completed, the city tually that pumping action
er," Marshall said. "A longi- of Coppell will receive a causes the concrete to
tudinal profiler for ride report, which will give each crack."
quality and a transverse street a quality rating. A In addition to PCI num-
profiler which gets rutting pavement condition index bers and a color coded map
that is across the wheel or PCI number will be of the town indicating
path." assigned to each street, street quality, the final
The ARAN van will drive which will give engineers report will include financial
every street and alley way an idea of which streets are estions from Fugro
in Coppell. Main streets will in good, fair, or poor condi- su e e upon their findings.
"They're also their
be surveyed in both direc- tion. The PCI number w bas
ill going
tions the street provides, also allow engineers to a look at our budget- o
take
but residential streets will review and assess whether numbers that we
only be surveyed one direc- streets need crack sealing ary year," Marshall said. uruse
e
tion. For example, Denton or total replacement. every r tye going to give Tap road will be surveyed According to Marshall, they are g g
in both north and south one of the biggest issues us a guide as far as where
bound directions, yet a res- with street maintenance is we might want to spend our :
idential street such as water under the pavement money."
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