Transportation
BY APRIL KELLEY, HALEY MCLEOD & CHLOE YOUNG
City Council picks Austin Avenue bridge design Georgetown City Council approved a contractor to complete the design of the Austin Avenue pedestrian bridge at an April 9 meeting. The overview Six of the seven council members voted to award Freese and Nichols $2.8 million to move forward with Concept 2. Council members selected the design at a March 26 workshop meeting from three concepts presented in August. The pedestrian bridge will cost $18.3 million, with $12.6 million for construction; $5.1 million for the design, construction oversight and miscellaneous inspection services; and $500,000 to build connec- tions to trails, said Wesley Wright, the city’s systems engineering director. What they're saying Council member Mike Triggs and two community
City puts more money toward DB Wood Road Georgetown City Council approved a change order in the amount of $590,806.19 for additional improvements for the DB Wood Road project at a Feb. 27 meeting. In a nutshell The change order amended the city’s con- tract with Jordan Foster, LLC, with the addi- tional funds going toward furnishing and installing an electrical conduit to provide electricity to the proposed Georgetown ISD high school and the city’s lift stations that will be located near Cedar Breaks Road and DB Wood, according to city documents. What else? The stretch of the road currently under construction—Hwy. 29 to Oak Ridge Road— is expected to be complete in mid-2025.
Georgetown City Council advanced the above concept for the Austin Avenue pedestrian bridge.
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members said they favored Concept 1, and raised concerns about the cost of Concept 2. Concept 1 would have cost $14.5 million, Wright said. Many board members stood by their decision to advance Concept 2. While some residents felt Concept 1 was sucient, the chosen design made more of a statement in downtown Georgetown, council member Amanda Parr said. “We’re not building a bridge for this budget cycle. We’re building a bridge for the next 75 years,” council member Jake French said.
WilCo celebrates completion of CR 245 expansion Williamson County ocials held a ribbon- cutting ceremony March 18 for the completed expansion of CR 245, providing an improved con- nection to Ronald Reagan Boulevard near Sun City and Georgetown—an area that continues to see rapid growth, according to county ocials. Two-minute impact The $6.9 million project involved expanding the former two-lane roadway into three lanes, which includes a center turn lane and additional right- turn lanes at various locations. The improvements are part of bigger plans to convert this small road into a six-lane thoroughfare. The project, which broke ground in January 2023, is a result of 2019 voter-approved bond funding. However, this project was not initially included in plans for the funding.
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