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City moves forward with long term transportation plan

The Shelton City Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to the city's proposed Six-Year Transportation Improvement Plan, whose top three priorities are improving the Western Gateway on West Railroad Avenue, and building two roundabouts on Wallace Kneeland Boulevard.

The council can make the plan official with a vote at its meeting at 6 p.m. Aug. 2. No one spoke during a public hearing on the proposed plan on July 5.

The city's code states that the plan is designed "to assure that each city and town shall perpetually have available advanced plans looking to the future for not less than six years as a guide in carrying out a coordinated transportation."

The state Department of Transportation requires the city to formulate the plan; to list projects that are anticipated; list projects that have secured state or federal money, and those that have not; and allow WSDOT to create a list of projects for the statewide Transportation Improvement Plan. Federally funded projects must be incorporated into the state TIP before money will be disbursed to the city.

Once the council passes the plan, the city has 30 days to submit it to the state Department of Transportation.

In the proposed plan, the city lists improvements to its Western Gateway on West Railroad Avenue from Seventh Street to the city limits at Pacific Court as its top priority. The improvements include replacing pavement and water mains and adding storm drainage, lights, sidewalks and American with Disabilities Act access. The estimated cost of the improvements is $4.35 million, with the city anticipating paying almost $3.8 million.

Priority number two is a roundabout at the intersection of Wallace Kneeland Boulevard and Shelton Springs Road. The estimated cost is just over $3 million, with the city footing the entire bill.

A roundabout at Wallace Kneeland Boulevard and North 13th Street is priority number three, and the city estimates it would pay for the entire project at $2.7 million.

 

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