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A Resolution Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute The Attached Contract Between Sun Up Enterprises And The City Of Hollywood, For The Traffic Circle At North 13th Avenue And Tyler Street Project Bid Number Pw-15-034, In The Amount Of $135,919.80; and to Amend the Approved Fiscal Year 2016 Capital Improvement Project, as set forth in Exhibit A.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the Attached Resolution.
Explanation:
In July of 2010, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) completed the implementation of landscaped safety medians that modified the traffic and pedestrian conditions along Hollywood Boulevard between Young Circle and 8th Avenue. Access across Hollywood Boulevard was limited to one protected crossing at 13th Avenue and four left turn/u-turn movements at 9th Avenue, 11th Avenue, 15th Avenue and 16th Avenue. The new medians and internalized neighborhood traffic impacts as a result of the safety project were found to be problematic and not palatable to the community, as it limited all direct access crossings along Hollywood Boulevard except for 13th Avenue and shifted neighborhood traffic patterns to 13th Avenue. Since the implementation of the FDOT project, City staff together with outside traffic consultants reviewed the corridor and worked with FDOT in an attempt to develop safe, effective solutions that would be acceptable to the community as a whole to relieve these conditions. After numerous public meetings, the community consensus received was leave Hollywood Boulevard as-is and implement safety improvements to include 1) a traffic circle at North 13th Avenue and Tyler Street, 2) permanent speed indicator flashers on North 13th Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, and 3) installation of sidewalk on 13th Avenue between Washington Street and Johnson Street. To date, implementation of the sidewalk project on 13th Avenue had been discontinued as a result of public meetings with ...
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