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Transportation
D.C.'s Great Streets Program Gains Speed
(midatlantic.construction.com,
November 2006 issue)
The vision for Washington, D.C.'s Great
Streets Program is gaining focus. HNTB of Washington is the
latest addition to a growing team of Mid-Atlantic firms working
on the four-year $100 million initiative. The District Department
of Transportation selected HNTB as the prime consultant on
the Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue project this summer. The
firm is providing civil design and program management. Design
of the $8 million job is scheduled for completion in July
2007 with construction bids expected next summer.
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The MLK project is one of six corridors
planned for renovation under the Great Streets Program. The
initiative, which was announced by D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams
in March 2005, is intended to restore major gateway street
corridors back to their original prominence and revitalize
surrounding neighborhoods. A street car program has also been
considered for several of the corridors. Street cars could
be running on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue by 2008, according
to HNTB project manager Peter Bonaccorsi.
Other corridors in the program include
Georgia Avenue/7th Street NW, H Street/Benning Road NE, Nannie
Helen Burroughs Avenue NE, Minnesota Avenue NE/SE and Pennsylvania
Avenue SE.
Legion Design/Campbell Associates of
Washington is overseeing the $14 million Pennsylvania Avenue
project. NHTB is serving as a sub-consultant on that project.
Volkert & Associates of Washington is in charge of the
H Street corridor.
The first bids for construction contracts
are expected to go out by the end of the year, according to
the District Department of Transportation.
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