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January 20, 2012 Update: Signal Video Detection and NE 85th Street/114th Avenue Intersection Improvements are complete.  Underground utility wire conversion has been rescheduled to start in early February, 2012.  See December 2011 newsletter (1,705KB).
 
Project Overview:  The NE 85th Street Corridor Improvements are a direct result of a collaborative community planning effort with the Rose Hill Business District businesses, property owners, neighborhood residents, Sound Transit, and the City of Kirkland.  The improvements provide a series of coordinated streetscape facilities to minimize traffic delays; enable pedestrians, drivers, bicyclists, transit riders and others to have a safe and pleasant experience; and, to develop a comprehensive transportation system to stimulate economic vitality and redevelopment.  The projects include:

Underground Powerlines:

• Convert aerial utility lines to underground system along NE 85th Street from 120th to 128th Avenue NE
• Install conduit underground for future utility conversion along NE 85th Street from 128th Avenue NE to 132nd Avenue NE

• Complete sidewalk on both sides of 124th Avenue NE between NE 80th Street and NE 90th Street
• Complete sidewalk on both sides of NE 85th Street between 120th Avenue NE and 132nd Avenue NE
• Install landscape strips with trees, pedestrian lighting and street lighting on both sides of NE 85th Street

Intersections:

• Add Intelligent Transportation System elements at each signalized intersection to coordinate signal timing along the corridor and create a pathway for connection to future Traffic Control Center
• Install additional southbound 114th Avenue NE to eastbound NE 85th Street left turn lane
• Install channelization island for future eastbound NE 85th Street to northbound 124th Avenue NE left turn lane
• Add northbound 132nd Avenue to eastbound NE 85th Street right turn lane
• Re-stripe southbound to eastbound left turn lane to increase vehicle storage length

Detention/Sediment Control:

Street Resurfacing:

• Resurface NE 85th Street Corridor

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