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Third Avenue Bridge Project Update Virtual Meeting Transcript Third Avenue Bridge Project Update, Virtual Meeting Transcript Meeting Date: November 17, 2020 A picture from the waterline of the Third Avenue Bridge, facing downtown, takes up most of a slide whose trim is in the colors of MnDOT webpages: white, with dark blue trim. At the bottom is the MnDOT logo, a ligature of lowercase M and N in blue and green next to the words "Department of Transportation." At top right is a blank speaker window labeled "Brynna Marusic." ON SCREEN TEXT: Third Avenue Bridge Project Update MnDOT Staff November 2020 BRYNNA: Thanks, everyone, for joining us. I think we'll go ahead and get started today. Those of--those people that are still coming in can trickle in. A new slide, blue and white with a little green, bears text with the heading "Welcome" and three short paragraphs, each by, from top to bottom, a picture of an Unmute toggle with an icon of a crossed microphone, a speech bubble next to the word Chat, and an orange triangular hazard sign with an exclamation mark. ON SCREEN TEXT: Welcome Unmute You are muted and your video is disabled upon entry. Please utilize the "chat box" to type in comments or questions throughout the session. Questions will be answered after the presentation during the Q & A session. If you experience any technical difficulties, please call 612-422-8574 or email [email protected] BRYNNA: Before we begin, I'm gonna quickly cover some Webex basics. So attendees are muted, and your video has been disabled upon entry to preserve bandwidth during the meeting. Please utilize the chat box to type in comments or questions throughout the session. All questions will be answered after the presentation during our Q&A session. Make sure to send your question to everyone in the chat box so we can all answer them together. If you do experience any technical difficulties, please call 612-422- 8574 or email our project email right here if you do experience any technical difficulties during the meeting. Thank you again for joining us, and I will now give the floor to our speakers today, Dave Aeikens, Tim Nelson, and Chris Hoberg. Thanks. On a new slide, three schematic head-and-shoulders icons above the names and titles of the presenters. ON SCREEN TEXT: Today's presenters DAVE AEIKENS CHRIS HOBERG TIM NELSON Communications and Engagement Project Manager Construction Engineer (MnDOT) (MnDOT) (MnDOT) 1 Third Avenue Bridge Project Update, Virtual Meeting Transcript Meeting Date: November 17, 2020 DAVE: Thank you, Brynna, and I want to welcome everyone to our open house today, and I'm glad that you could make it, and we're gonna talk about the Third Avenue Bridge. This is our second one. We've got a couple of really good engineers here. Chris Hoberg, our project manager, and Tim Nelson, who's overseeing the construction. They're gonna speak today, and then I'm gonna come back and talk a little bit about communications and outreach and how you can get ahold of us, and then we're gonna take some questions. So I wanna--again, thanks, everyone, for being here. I want to introduce Chris Hoberg, who's the project manager who's been working really hard on this. DAVE: He's gonna talk a little bit about what we've done so far. Chris? A new slide with a map of the Mississippi as it flows through downtown Minneapolis. The Third Avenue Bridge is highlighted in orange and labeled "Project area." Text to the left of the map explains, and below that is a bulleted sidebar titled "Project Benefits." ON SCREEN TEXT: Project Overview The historic Third Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River, between Second Street SE and First Street South in Minneapolis, opened in 1918 and now needs significant repairs. The bridge carries Third and Central Avenues Project Benefits Provides smoother road surface Improves safety and accessibility Extends life of historic bridge (50 years) Enhances and preserves historic features CHRIS: Thanks, Dave. Yeah, so a little bit of an overview on the project here. Probably no mystery to anybody who lives in the area or uses Third Avenue or Central that we've got a project out there. The Third Avenue Bridge--you might know it as the Central Avenue Bridge. It carries those roads over the Mississippi River just right in downtown there, right by the St. Anthony Falls, and it's been out there for a long time. That bridge was built in 1918, and it is in need of some repairs, so that's really the purpose for our project and why we're out there. What we expect to see at the end of this project, the benefits, is really a smooth road, a smooth surface for driving and walking and riding. Also improved safety and accessibility, and we are looking to get a good 50 years out of this repair. This is a long-term repair and a really robust rehabilitation, so... And then, additionally, because it's 102 years old going on 103, it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. We put a really keen eye to the historic features and the things that make it historically significant in our project decision making, and they're taking quite a bit of care in the construction to make sure that we can preserve those features and ensure that that history is not lost with the project. Next slide. On a new slide, icons accompanying text: a traffic cone, a bicycle between two dotted lines and an upward-pointing arrow, a light bulb with dots radiating from it, and a stylized arched bridge over water. ON SCREEN TEXT: Summary of Work 2 Third Avenue Bridge Project Update, Virtual Meeting Transcript Meeting Date: November 17, 2020 Repair bridge and replace bridge deck Improve bicycle and walking paths Update lighting Maintain and enhance the bridge's historic and visual appeal CHRIS: As far as the scope of work, what exactly we're doing out there, we're pretty much touching every surface of the bridge and repairing any damaged concrete or damaged steel. We are gonna be replacing the bridge deck, or the area where cars drive. Additionally, we're gonna be improving the non-motorized facilities on the bridge, so those bike paths and walking paths. We'll have some visuals here a little later that'll help illustrate some of that. The lighting out there right now, it's been out there for a long time as well and is in need of repair, so we're gonna update that and repair that, and then, again, that kind of central theme with this historic bridge, making sure that we're maintaining the historic features and the visual appeal and enhancing that as appropriate. On a new slide, we see a computer-generated image of sunset in downtown Minneapolis. Most detail is reserved for the bridge, which bears antique-style globular streetlights and separated paths flanking a broad four-lane street. On-screen text provides labels which are connected to their subjects by green lines. ON SCREEN TEXT: Future Repaired Bridge Maintains TWO VEHICLE LANES in each direction New BRIDGE DECK with new pavement and striping Updated LIGHTING Repaired BRIDGE PIERS 13 ft MULTI-USE PATH on both sides CHRIS: Next slide. So this is this is just a little rendering of what the bridge should look like when we're all said and done here, but you can see out there today we have two lanes of traffic in each direction in the permanent condition, and that'll be maintained, and we've got it reduced right now for construction purposes, but you can expect two lanes in each direction when the project is complete. Again, you can see the bridge deck there is being replaced and will have new paint on the roadway there as well. Updated lighting as we said before. Those bike paths that are out there currently are between the vehicle lanes and the concrete barrier, and we're gonna put those bike lanes behind the concrete barrier and have about--it's little over 13 feet, actually. It's, like, 13.5 feet for bicycles and pedestrians to use there behind that barrier. And then you can see those bridge piers down in the water. Those are gonna see repairs. Just about any concrete surface on this where there's damaged concrete will be repaired. Next slide, please. 3 Third Avenue Bridge Project Update, Virtual Meeting Transcript Meeting Date: November 17, 2020 A new image of the bridge with a closer perspective. ON SCREEN TEXT: Future Repaired Bridge Updated LIGHTING Updated Updated SPANDRELS RAILINGS Updated PILASTERS CHRIS: The spandrels, those are the columns that hold the bridge deck up and go down to the arches. Those are all gonna be replaced as part of this project as well. Again, we see that that lighting there is being updated, and then the railings are actually a character-defining feature, a significant feature in the history of the bridge, and so those panels, those metal panels that are on the bridge today, are gonna be removed and cleaned and re-installed. And then those concrete... pilasters is what we call them, that hold up those steel panels are all being replaced, as well, and we're actually bringing back some of the historic detailing that was there--present--prior to the last rehabilitation in 1980, so we're really excited about that and how it's gonna affect the sense of place that the bridge has.
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