US97 Trail Planning Project
Project: US97 Trail Planning
Project Budget: $99,219
Funder(s): WSDOT Pedestrian & Bicycle Program
Grant: $99,219
City/Loan/Match: $0
Timeline: 2024 – 2025
Project Description: Community Engagement Events, Planning/analyzing pedestrian/bicyclist networks, Preliminary Right of Way Activities, Preliminary Environmental Analysis, 90% Preliminary Engineering, Land Survey
Detailed Project Description: Within urbanized vicinity along US Highway 97 in Pateros, WA, approximately milepost 253.67 (Lakeshore Dr) to 254.52 (Pedersen Rd), conduct development/design-only work to identify active transportation solutions for the community, completing:
- Community outreach and engagement with residents and community leaders, with particular attention to: disability rights organizations, foreign language speakers, community liaisons/organizations, and businesses or property owners adjacent to or potentially affected by the project
- Utilize: focus groups and targeted design outreach
- Full topographic and property surveys
- Pedestrian, bicyclist and traffic counts; manual turning movement counts
- Modeling analysis
- Preliminary Right-of-way research/analysis, for at least one preferred active transportation solution
- Environmental research and Permitting analysis, for at least one preferred active transportation solution
- Develop designs for improvements meeting the primary need reaching 90% preliminary engineering. It is recommended that other improvement designs be developed to at least 30% to facilitate more competitive future construction grant applications.
PROJECT UPDATES
Monthly Council Updates can be found in City Administrator Reports
5/15/2023 City notified of grant award
1/16/2024 Project presented at the Open House Community Engagement Session
3/27/2024 Quad City Herald article titled "Pateros City Council approves community events, reviews infrastructure projects."
March 2024 In agreement negotiations with WSDOT
