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�O�.DEc' <br /> c <br /> V 70 <br /> ��LINO�Y <br /> 7anuary 14, 1997 <br /> PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM <br /> NO. 97-OS <br /> MEMORANDUM TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> FROM: James L. Williams,Jr., City Manager ��j <br /> Bruce A. McNabb, Director of Public Works 1�-- <br /> Matthew C. Newell, Traffic Engineer��/ <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution Authorizing an Engineering Agreement with WVP <br /> Corporation to Perform a Pedestrian Underpass Feasibility Study <br /> for the 800 block of East Marietta Street and the Dlinois Central <br /> Railroad Tracks. <br /> An item on the agenda for the City Council meeting of Tuesday, January 21, 1997, is a <br /> resolution approving an agreement with WVP Corporation to perform a feasibility study of <br /> pedestrian crossing options available in the 800 block of East Marietta Street at the grade <br /> crossing with the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. <br /> This study will have a total lump sum cost of$8,200 that will be paid with Community I <br /> Development Block Grant funds. �I <br /> This proposed study has been brought on by recent Illinois Commerce Commission rulings ' <br /> that have been handed down closing the subject crossing to a11 pedestrian access. The proposed ', <br /> study will define options available to the City in maintaining continued pedestrian access along <br /> with the resulting advantages, disadvantages and estimated construction costs. Discussions will <br /> be conducted with the Illinois Central Railroad, the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Decatur <br /> Housing Authority and local neighborhood groups. The proposed study will take approximately <br /> two months to complete, after which a final report will be issued that will include a preliminary <br /> layout, suggested construction method and recommended crossing. <br />