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Department Approval <<'i O REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Attachment B Date: June 4, 2018 Item No.: City Manager Approval Item Description: Snelling Ave Alternative Review Study Professional Services Contract 1 BACKGROUND 2 In early 2017, the City of Roseville was awarded a Surface Transportation Program federal 3 funding grant from the Metropolitan Council for the addition of a third lane along northbound 4 Snelling Ave (MnDOT Trunk Highway 51) from County Road 132 to a point north of Lydia Ave. 5 Since that project award, staff has been working with the Minnesota Department of s Transportation (MnDOT) on the exact project scope and timing of actual construction. During 7 those conversations it is clear that more detailed analysis is necessary in order to determine what a the actual project scope will be or if there are other alternative improvements that could be made 9 to this area that result in similar, if not better, overall improvements to the traffic congestion in 1 c the area. 11 Staff has requested a proposal from SRF Consulting Group for additional analysis on this 12 proposed project. SRF has done considerable work in the area for both the Twin Lakes area 13 traffic analysis as well as the 35W Managed Lane modeling and has sufficient base traffic counts 14 and traffic model framework which results in a very efficient and cost effective study for this 15 purpose. 16 SRF's proposal is attached, the scope of which includes: 17 • Use the developed Regional Travel Demand Model to test potential local/regional pattern 18 shifts related to a third northbound lane along Snelling Ave — this has been one concern 19 expressed by Mn/DOT. 20 • Develop and evaluate a range of intersection/corridor alternatives to improve operations 21 along Snelling Avenue. 22 • Prepare a Final Operations Summary of the analyzed alternatives. 23 • Develop preliminary concept layouts and cost estimates for up to three conceptual 24 layouts. 25 • Provide a final concept layout summary. 26 It is anticipated that the study will be complete within 3-6 months of a final authorization to 27 proceed. Once the study is complete, staff will present the results to the Public Works, 28 Environment and Transportation Commission, and the City Council, and also conduct at least 29 one public meeting to gather input on the proposed concepts. If a different concept than the full 30 third lane which has been awarded the funding is ultimately preferred by the City Council, staff 31 would work with the Metropolitan Council to amend the terms of the STP grant. It is still 32 expected by staff that the final preferred alternative will be some version of the third lane project. Page 1 of 2