In 2012, the City of Worthington, Ohio, embarked on a massive undertaking, the full scope of which was not understood in the early stages. A problematic intersection, dubbed “The North East Gateway” in the City’s industrial sector had posed serious challenges for over two decades. This $19 million project has become the engineering challenge of a career, involving not only the roadways and railways, but regional transmission pipelines for oil, gas and water, industrial wastewater, electric service, telecom, multiple fiber optic lines, and no less than 124 separate parcels to acquire for right-of-way. When completed, the project will not only move higher volumes of traffic efficiently, but it will make accommodation for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, allow for expansion of public transit line along the corridor, include space for public art, improve an impaired waterway and incorporate smart technologies in signalization and street lighting. Don’t miss this story of how the engineer how wrangled this gorilla and kept in line.

Learning Objectives:

1. Drill down to identify the actual problem requiring a fix. It’s better to discover “what we don’t know” and how to know it while thinking “outside the highway.”

2. Properly think through proposed solution paths and select solutions that consider all stakeholders, not just the car commuter in order to achieve “Transit Equality.”

3. Communicate effectively to a variety of interest groups, staying ahead of the conversation and avoiding the social media rumor mill monster.

Contributor/Source

Dan Whited P.E.;Robert Chandler

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