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North Little Rock council authorizes application for Main Street Viaduct planning grant
Summary
The council voted to authorize the mayor to apply for a federal planning grant to fund environmental, geotechnical and engineering work to make the Main Street Viaduct shovel-ready; staff said the total project is currently estimated at about $50 million and the planning grant request is for up to $2.25 million.
The North Little Rock City Council voted to authorize the mayor to apply for federal grant funds to cover planning, environmental review and engineering for the Main Street Viaduct.
City Engineer David Cook told the council the project is still at the conceptual stage and "we haven't done surveys or anything on this yet," describing the application as a planning-phase request to make the bridge shovel-ready for later construction. Cook gave a current total cost estimate "right now, total, we're looking at $50,000,000," which he said covers survey, planning, environmental review, design and construction observation through completion.
Ryan Wilson of North Little Rock Electric explained the city's approach to risk and funding elsewhere in the…
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