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City reports progress, delays and time-only extension on MAPS bike lanes
Summary
Consort Engineers updated the MAPS 4 Citizens Advisory Board on construction progress for bike lanes phases 1A and 1B, reporting pavement repairs, signal upgrades, installed striping and a no‑cost 48‑day schedule extension due to weather and additional work.
Consort Engineers provided a construction update on MAPS for Bike Lanes phases 1A and 1B at the Sept. 4 MAPS 4 Citizens Advisory Board meeting, reporting pavement repairs, striping totals, signal upgrades and a time‑only schedule extension for weather and additional work.
Project engineer Josh Malwick described phase 1A limits—including Northwest 16th Street (Overholser Trail to Tulsa Avenue), Tulsa between 16th and 19th, and 19th Street between Tulsa and Indiana—and said crews installed protected and shared facilities where space allowed. “Tier 1 protected bike lanes… have the individual bike lanes separated by traffic,” Malwick said, explaining the tiered treatment used across corridors.
For phase 1A Malwick reported more than 31,000 linear feet of striping and almost 200 pavement markers installed to date; signal detection upgrades were completed at locations that previously lacked radar detection for cyclists. He said pavement repair work is complete except for scribing on concrete segments and that some sharrows on concrete await different equipment. The program budget was stated as $3,400,000 for an overall MAPS bike lanes allocation; the transcript lists the original contract for the presented section as about $1,900,000 with work to date and remaining contract amounts discussed by staff.
On phase 1B (Classen Boulevard and Northeast 16th Street segments), Malwick said the contractor installed about 41,000 feet of stripe, 83 pavement markers and more than 500 delineators (including bolted “armadillo” markers). He reported over 4,000 square yards of pavement repair and that the Northeast 16th segment was substantially complete and awaiting a final walkthrough. Malwick told the board that a no‑cost change order was issued to add 48 days for weather delays and additional work discovered in the field; staff said the change order was time‑only and did not increase the contract price.
Budget figures presented varied by segment: Malwick summarized that the Classen/Northeast 16th contract originally was about $3.4 million with remaining expenditures estimated; for phase 1A he cited an original contract figure near $1.9 million with work to date about $650,000 and a remaining contract balance near $1.2 million. Malwick said the project team expects some funds will remain unused from the contract.
Board members asked no substantive policy questions during the presentation and accepted the construction update; a subsequent agenda item approved Change Order No. 3 with RCC Traffic (time-only) by voice vote.
