Ayers Street Intersection Improvements

Barre City, Vermont

Transportation engineering services for the installation of a new traffic signal at a “K” intersection with a long history of needing improvements. Assessed potential resource and utility impacts and prepared initial scoping report summarizing details and costs of more than a dozen different alternatives. Professional services included facilitation of public meetings to gain resident, business, local, and State input on deficiencies; traffic signal warrant analysis; contract documents for signal construction including right-of-way survey; and coordination, mapping, and identification of existing utility conflicts with public utility companies, the City of Barre, Washington County Railroad, and VTrans. Identified conflicts between existing utilities and the new traffic signal control devices (strain wires, strain poles, and traffic signal heads) and assessed buried utilities for facilitating intersection repaving. Due to close proximity of intersection to Spaulding High School, pedestrian’s needs were a key component of the intersection design.