Early 1970s Freeway along the levee top first proposed Summer 1994 Trinity River Corridor Citizens Committee TRCCC begins work May 10 1995 Council Adopts TRCCC recommendation Road to go under bridges not over ID: 781355
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Trinity Parkway
Slide2Trinity Parkway Timeline
Early 1970’s: Freeway along the levee top first proposedSummer 1994: Trinity River Corridor Citizen’s Committee (TRCCC) begins workMay 10, 1995: Council Adopts TRCCC recommendation –Road to go under bridges not over
Levee Couplet to be low-speed with wide outside lanes for bikes and left hand access roads to recreation area
March 1996
- April 1997: TxDOT conducts Major Transportation Study (MTIS). Report dated March 17, 1998
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September 10,1997: City Council endorsed TxDOT’s Trinity Parkway Corridor MTIS Plan of ActionDecember 10, 1997: Council authorizes staff to negotiate ILA with NTTA and TxDot
May 2, 1998
:
City voters approved general obligation bonds ($84 million) to develop Trinity Parkway as a toll road
November 18, 1998: City Council authorized an ILA with NTTA to develop the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Trinity Parkway and awarded a contract to develop the Master Implementation Plan
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The EIS began in summer 1999 by Halff Associates and included a “No-Build” alternative in addition to 5 “Build” alternatives (2A-Industrial elevated, 2B-Industrial at-grade, 3A-Original Combined Parkway, 4A-Split Riverside, and 5-Split Landside). All alternatives were evaluated as: Controlled access toll road55 mph
8 lanes from SH183 to IH 30, and 6 lanes from IH 30 to US 175
August 25, 1999: Council Adopts Master Implementation Plan of recreational features
June 23, 1999: Council Adopts a policy related to signature bridges and aesthetic amenities for all bridges crossing the Trinity
2000
: City hires HNTB to prepare land use plan for the Trinity Corridor
Slide5Trinity Parkway Timeline, Cont’d
Summer 2002: Mayor Miller and Chancellor Jackson raise private funds to commission the development of the Balanced Vision PlanProcess managed by the Dallas Plan, Dallas Institute of the Humanities, and AIA DallasStudy team includes: Chan Krieger – Urban Design, Hargreaves and Associates – Landscape Architecture, TDA, Inc. – Transportation Planning
Study recommended “Urban Design” Alternative, known as 3B (Combined Parkway-Modified)
October 8, 2003, City Council directed the inclusion of Alternative 3B in the EIS, and update Trinity Parkway as a 6-lane facility in the year 2025
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December 8, 2003, Council adopted the Balanced Vision Plan (BVP)April 14, 2004, Council amended the BVPFebruary 2005, the Draft EIS (DEIS) was released which included the new Alternative 3B in addition to original alternatives. A Public Hearing was held March
2005
April 13, 2005
, City Council recommended Alternative 3B and requested the following :
Implement context sensitive urban design
Staged construction ( build initial 4 lanes to be widened in the median as traffic conditions warrant)
Pedestrian decks
Electronic tolling
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October 6, 2006, USACE noted significant issues on Alternatives 3A, 3B, 4A and 5 in the Draft Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft SDEIS)After October 2006, Alternatives 3C and 4B were developed following further interagency consultation to address O&M concerns by USACE
November 6, 2007: Voters reject referendum to cancel the project
October 2008: CH2MHill and Wallace, Roberts, Todd prepare the Landscape and Design Guidelines for the Parkway
February 2009, Supplemental DEIS (SDEIS) was released which included the remaining 4 build alternatives (
2A, 2B, 3C, and 4B
) in addition to the
No-Build
alternative. A Public Hearing was conducted in May
2009
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April 1, 2009: Corps releases Periodic Inspection #9 failing the leveesMay 19, 2009: Trinity River Corridor Project Committee approved Alternative 3C as the Locally Preferred Alternative September 15,
2009:
USACE rejected Alternatives 3A, 3B, 4A and 5, as presented in the SDEIS, citing operational and maintenance concerns
FHWA continued to explore options to bring Alternative 5 to compliance with USACE’s
requirements and requires preparation of a Limited Scope Supplement to the Supplemental Draft EIS
November
3,
2010:
USACE determined Alternative 5 could not be further modified to meet USACE requirements
Slide9Trinity Parkway Timeline, Cont’d
May 2012, Limited Scope Supplemental (LSS) to the SDEIS to: evaluate compatibility with levee remediation plans and practicability of Trinity Parkway alternatives pursuant to Executive Orders regarding floodplains and wetlands was published. A Public Hearing was held in May 2012April 2014, Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was published and a Public Hearing was held. Alternative 3C was recommended.
Early 2015: Record of Decisions are anticipated