University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 4, 1988
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Firms bid for lane construction
By Mark Fagan Kansan staff writer
Bids were opened yesterday for a turn lane on West 15th Street for a facilities operations and parking services complex on West Campus.
Killough Inc. of Ottawa presented the apparent low app at $12,300. LRM Industries Inc. and W.A.D. Dunbar & Sons Trucking and Excavation Inc.,ence, submitted the next lowest bids, at $16,335 and $17,800, respectively.
Jim Modig, campus director of facilities planning, said $20,000 had been allocated for the addition of a barn lane that would serve a parking lot, storage room, pool, garage and landscape and construction buildings on West Campus.
Facilities operations contributed $15,000 of the project allocation, and parking services set aside the other $5,000. Modig said.
Bill Peaslee, state contracting officer for the division of purchases in Topeka, said it was unclear who would be awarded the contract. The project, include two alternates, which could affect the decision.
Construction on a 215-foot long left turn lane should begin in a couple of weeks. The lane is being added to help with safety problems along West Fork Road and the Operations Motor Pool. The lane should be finished by mid-December.
LRM bid $590 on the alternates,
and W.A. Dunbar and Sons bid $605.
Killough did not bid on the alternates, which cover asphalt and concrete work
"They just crossed them out," Peasele said. "They're pretending they don't even exist, so I'm in a quandary right now."
Motig said he hoped the contract could be awarded soon and the contractor could begin work in a couple of weeks.
"If the weather holds like it is now, we'd like to go ahead and get it started," he said.
The project could be completed by mid-December if conditions remained favorable, he said.
Lt. John Mullens, who is in charge of the traffic safety division of KU police, said the situation was unsafe because motorists' sight distance was cut short by a hill.
because of the safety problems associated with the lack of a turn lane.
"I go home that way every night," Mullens said. "You have to be conscious of the fact that people can be turning either way. I've had to spp out there several times. At the space traveling, it is a little bit abrupt."
Gaylen Liska, physical plant manager of the garage and body shop, said the present gap in the median strip was not enough to make a safe left turn.
Liska said motorists' speed along West 15th was also a problem.
"You can't pull out into the opening without poking out into oncoming traffic, or having your back stick out also." he said.
"I's wide open all the way from Iowa (Street)," he said. "The speed limit is 40, but most people come through there at 45 or 50."
Liska said vehicles now used the lash, which is the fast lane to slow down.
"It's a safety problem simply
because of the hill," he said. "When you're going to pass, you can come over the hill and run right into somebody waiting to turn left."
Liska said about 60 state vehicles a day used the complex.
Don Kearns, director of parking services, said facilities operations was not the only office responsible for the turn lane. Parking services controls let 220, which has 150 yellow permit spaces.
"We're the low contributor," he said. "That's our lot out there, and we enforce it. We use it as much as they do."
The new lane could also serve a proposed new parking lot for most of the more than 200 state vehicles now on main campus, Kearns said.
"We hopefully next year will put a state vehicle lot out there," he said. "Virtually every department on campus has state vehicles. When you start adding it up, it's mind-boggling."
The new lot proposal is now before the parking board.
Modig said the University planned to add a left turn lane when facilities operations moved into the buildings in 1987, but it did not have the money.
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Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said that the entire department regularly worked during home games and that no extra precautions were being taken because K-State would be here.
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"The difference is, we don't have an Aggieville," Mulvenon said. "In Lawrence, the bars are spread out around town. We don't have the combination of large crowds and alcohol."
Lt. Rodney Williams of the Kansas Highway Patrol said that there would be a patrol car at the game and that extra patrols would be between Lawrence and Kansas City, Mo, and between Lawrence and Manhattan.
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