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Blackfalds, AB -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/13/2014 -- A welcome to Blackfalds feature that would be part of a roundabout planned at Highway 2A and Highway 597 is back on the table.
Council gave the OK to bring the plan back to the forefront now that Alberta Transportation has brought the roundabout back into its capital plan.
“With the roundabout coming on stream in the fall of 2012, what we did is allocate $75,000 to build a landscaping roundabout feature in the middle of the roundabout,” explained Preston Weran, director of infrastructure and property services.
“What happened is (Alberta Transportation) put the tender out and it came in way too high, so they kind of delayed the project. Then it got cancelled as part of their three-year cancellation of their capital projects. In turn our landscaping feature got cancelled as well.”
Weran said now that the Alberta government has put that back on their three-year capital plan, they have until 2016 to get it tendered and constructed.
“So we just heard the other day that Alberta Transportation is planning on tendering this fall. We don’t have an official confirmation on that, but that is their plan,” he said.
“We just wanted to confirm with council that the schematics of the large Blackfalds letters was still top of the priority list. We wanted it to be brought forward as part of the 2015 budget.”
Weran said Blackfalds would probably just tack that on to the tender for Alberta Transportation so that the contractor doing the top soil and all the re-scaping of the ditches would actually do the landscaping feature as well.
“(Alberta Transportation) is looking at tendering this fall,” Weran said. “They will see how the prices come in, and would like to start construction next year. But again, that is all somewhat informal and we kind of wanted to cement our requirements to incorporate that into our bid.”
“We added another $15,000 just because of the fact that it is two years later,” he added.
The expected capital cost for the roundabout feature in the Blackfalds budget is $90,000.
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