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Buckley council approves engineering contract for Safe Streets for All plan
Summary
The Buckley City Council approved an engineering services agreement to complete a Safe Streets for All (SS4A) comprehensive safety action plan, beginning a planning phase required to seek federal construction funds; the contract includes traffic modeling and public presentations on intersection alternatives.
The Buckley City Council approved an engineering services proposal to complete a comprehensive safety action plan funded by the federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grant, the council said at its regular meeting.
The contract authorizes the engineering firm (referred to in the meeting as "Grama and Osborne") to complete the SS4A planning work required to make the city eligible for potential federal construction funding. Council discussion described traffic modeling, alternatives analysis for intersections and roundabouts, and public-facing animated presentations that will show how proposed changes affect peak traffic flows.
The plan scope includes a subcontract of about $75,000 to a traffic-modeling firm identified in the meeting as the Transpo Group to run animated transportation models and alternatives analyses. Presenters said those animations will illustrate one- and two-lane roundabout options, slip lanes, and signal enhancements, and will analyze right-of-way and property impacts needed for larger intersection designs.
City staff explained that completing the planning phase is a prerequisite to applying for the SS4A implementation/construction funding; the planning stage does not itself commit the city to any specific construction approach. Council members asked about how the modeling would be presented to the public and whether the study would lock the city into roundabouts; staff said the study will compare alternatives and that public presentations are planned.
The council moved to approve the engineering services proposal and, after a second, approved the motion by voice vote. The meeting record shows the motion carried; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
The work is expected to produce an alternatives analysis, traffic animations for public review, and recommendations that the city can use to apply for SS4A implementation funds if it chooses to pursue construction.
