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(8/8/2011) Keith Marvin - Re: Fwd: road closuresPage 1
From: Keith Marvin
To:pam.woller@gmail.com
CC:Adloo, Rhonda; Marshall, George
Date: 6/15/2010 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: road closures
Ms. Woller,
Thank you for contacting the city with your concerns about our ongoing construction projects. We realize that these projects are a
significant inconvenience to those that live in and around our city.
Any time we take the drastic step of closing a major roadway, we try to do so in a manner that will minimize the overall impact as
much as possible. We felt rebuilding the intersection of Denton Tap and Sandy Lake during the summer months, while school is
out, and our traffic flows are the lowest was the only way it could be successful.
The Bethel Road project will also impact many of our citizens. Again, a closure during the summer months will be less of an impact
than a similar closure during the school year.
As far as the overlap of these two projects goes, Bethel Road was not intended to be used as a reliever route for the Sandy Lake
project for a couple of reasons. First, Bethel Road is not a through street east of Denton Tap, so people seeking to continue east
would not be able to do so without turning either north or south on Denton Tap. Both Parkway Blvd. to the north and Southwestern
Blvd. to the south do continue east of Denton Tap, although Southwestern becomes Beltline Road east of Denton Tap. The majority
of the work is complete on Southwestern Blvd, and it will be available for uninterrupted traffic flow on Monday.
The second reason Bethel was not intended as a reliever route is that the approach to Denton Tap is only one lane. Traffic
approaching this intersection backs up considerably under normal conditions, and right turn and through traffic backs up and sits
while left turn traffic waits to turn. This is one of the main reasons for the Bethel Road project, and would be completely
unbearable if we used it as a detour route during the Sandy Lake project.
We have contracted with quality contractors for both of these projects, and we have offered significant incentives for the contractor
to complete the closure and restore traffic as quickly as possible.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss any further aspects of these projects.
Keith Marvin, P.E.
Project Engineer
(972) 304-3681
>>> Infosys 6/14/2010 5:06 PM >>>
>>> Pam Woller <pam.woller@gmail.com> 6/10/2010 9:27 PM >>>
i am confused by the decision to schedule road closures and construction at
Denton Tap/Sandy Lake at the same time the Bethel Road bridge AND 121 is
under construction. This makes it extremely difficult to find a route in or
out of Coppell since they are both going east/west.
It would have been much more efficient to work on each one of these areas
within Coppell at separate times.
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Pam Woller
Coppell resident