969 Retention of engineering firms for the Mon/Fayette Expressway transportation project

TURNPIKE COMMISSION

Retention of Engineering Firms for the Mon/Fayette Expressway Transportation Project

[32 Pa.B. 2731]

   The Turnpike Commission (Commission) will retain 13 engineering firms to provide preliminary and final design services for the development of 13 sections of limited access highway on new alignment, known as the Mon/Fayette Transportation Project, Route 51 to I-376. The design/construction sections are described as follows:

	EIS	Section	Construction
Section	Section	Length	Cost	Description
		(Miles)	(Millions)
53A	1	3.7	$80	Complete Rt. 51 I/C; 11 bridges; ramp toll plaza; gas substation relocation
53B	1	3.7	$90	Dravosburg I/C; 12 bridges; ramp toll plazas; new local access road--2 miles; park and ride lot; power line relocation; sanitary sewer and USS waste line relocations
53C	1	1.6	$90	Duquesne I/C and 1.5 mile connecting road; ten bridges; ramp toll plazas; replace Rt. 837 bridge over Union RR
53D	1	0.4	$60	Eight-lane Mon River Bridge
53E	2	1.6	$200	Closed three-leg I/C entirely on structure; N. Versailles I/C; ramp toll plazas; replacement of E. Pittsburgh-McKeesport Blvd. bridge
53F	2	2.3	$90	Structures over Turtle Creek town center; mainline toll plaza; DAT involvement; relocation of Union RR
53G	2	1.3	$90	Half I/C with Business 22; half I/C to Penn Hills; reconstruction of Business 22; full I/C with I-376
53H	3	1.7	$75	Braddock I/C at Sixth St.; ramp toll plazas; DAT involvement; 11 bridges; park and ride lot; relocation of Braddock Ave.
53J	3	1.4	$75	Mainline toll plaza; relocation of CSXT tracks; new access into Carrie Furnace
53K	4	2.1	$200	2.1 miles of dual viaducts; DAT involvement
53L	5	N/A	$10	Hayes I/C redesign
53M	5	1.1	$130	Glenwood Bridge I/C; depressed expressway in Hazelwood with covers on some areas; DAT involvement; local frontage roads; ramp toll plazas
53N	5	1.2	$120	Bates St./I-376 I/C; DAT involvement; extensive TCP involvement

   The Commission will advertise each section separately. Three sets of advertisements will be published with each set containing four or five advertisements. The order of advertisement is anticipated to be:

Set 1--Advertising of Sections 53A, 53D, 53E, 53H and 53M--Early Summer
Set 2--Advertising of Sections 53B, 53F, 53G and 53K--Late Summer
Set 3--Advertising of Sections 53C, 53J, 53L and 53N--Late Fall

   These advertisements will be published in future editions of the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Do not respond to this notice.

BRADLEY L. MALLORY,   
Chairperson

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 02-969. Filed for public inspection May 31, 2002, 9:00 a.m.]