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Council debates hiring engineer to finish Manhattan–Franklin bike-lane design as grant deadline looms
Summary
Council members split over whether to introduce a late contract award to hire an engineering firm to complete designs for the Manhattan–Franklin bikeway ahead of a mid‑June New Jersey Department of Transportation grant deadline; city staff said the engineering work would be paid from city funds and quoted a not‑to‑exceed amount of $162,000.
JERSEY CITY — Council members debated whether to authorize and/or walk onto the agenda a contract to hire an engineering firm to complete full designs for a protected bikeway on Manhattan and Franklin avenues, saying the city faces a mid‑June grant deadline from the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
A staff member from the Division of Engineering told the council the award would let an engineering firm develop a “full design of the project that we would then have to submit to the NJDOT for their approval.” The staff member said the contract would be paid from the city’s budget and that the DOT grant would fund construction only. “We are required to get all of the plans developed, get the bid package together, and, get the project out to bid and awarded by that June deadline in order to be able to use the grant funding,” the staff member said.
The engineering staff…
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