Michael Kay: Thank you, Jessica, and on behalf of the Federal Highway Administration's Innovative Program Delivery office, I'd like to welcome everyone to our joint DOT-FHWA Major Project webinar. My name is Michael Kay and I'm with the USDOT's Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and today I'll be facilitating our webinar and helping to address any technical problems you have and moderating our question-and-answer periods. I'll introduce Jim Sinnette, the project delivery team leader, momentarily, but before he begins, I just want to point out a couple of features of the webinar room. First, on the top left, is the audio call-in information. You're welcome to listen over your computer speakers; however, if you do have any bandwidth issues, I do recommend that you dial in using that toll-free number. Below that is the attendee list. Below that is a file share box where you can download a PDF version of today's presentation. Simply click on the presentation, click Download Files, and follow the prompts on your screen. Finally, on the bottom left, is a chat box that you can use to ask questions at any point throughout the webinar. Our webinar is scheduled to run until three thirty p.m. Eastern time today, and we are recording today's webinar so that anyone unable to join us can review the material at a later time. I just want to pull up a couple of poll questions that will help us better understand our audience. The first one is what is your affiliation, whether you're with the Federal Highway division, outside of the division office, a state DOT, another federal agency, other transportation agency, or other. And actually, I'm realizing we don't have division office in there, so bear with me a second. I'm just going to add that to our poll here. Let's start over with that poll. So, division office, non-division office, state DOT, another federal agency that's not Federal Highway, and another transportation agency that's not a state DOT, or other. And then on the right side, how many people are participating with you today, whether you're sitting alone at your desk perhaps or around a conference room table with as many as ten or more. So let's wait about ten more seconds to allow you to answer those questions. It's nice to see we have a couple of groups, at least one or two, with more than ten people, and also a couple of groups of five to ten. That's really great to see. Okay, with that, I will close those polls out. I will return to our - and I'd like to turn the webinar over to Jim Sinnette. Jim?
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It's over 80 percent complete. It's expanding and reconstructing two separate sections of US-41, one in Brown County, which is the Green Bay area, and one in the Winnebago County, which is the Oshkosh area. US-41 was just approved for designation as I-41 and signs will be going up this summer, with the route will officially be becoming an interstate. This project has included the construction of a new eight- lane causeway over Lake Butte des Morts and the Erie construction reconfiguration of 16 interchanges, including two major system interchanges, one with I-43 and with one Wisconsin Highway 29. The US-41 project included construction of a total of 110 structures, 120 retaining walls, and over 9.2 million cubic yards of excavation. It also has included the construction the 24 roundabouts. Mainly these have been at the service ramp terminals. Moving on to another project, the Wisconsin 441/US-10 Tri-County Freeway Project. It just began construction last year. This project is reconstructing and expanding Wisconsin 441/US-10 and it includes also the reconfiguring of the system interchange with the new I-41. The project also includes the construction of a new structure over Little Lake Butte des Morts. It's actually located in the Appleton Metropolitan area. In addition to the system interchange with I-41, it's going to include the reconstruction and reconfiguration of four other interchanges, and one of those is Wisconsin's first diverging diamond interchanges. The project will also include ITS technologies and lightings, enhanced freeway safety and reliability. Like I said, the construction is underway on the new structure. Part of optimizing the constructability, a portion of the existing structure has been closed off to traffic to serve as contractor access in constructing the new structure. It also has instituted the construction of a temporary causeway to provide access for constructing the bridge piers. Moving on to another project here is the I-39/90 project. It is to begin construction this year. They've been doing some minor construction for alternate routes and ITS over the past few years. The project is a 45-mile reconstruction and expansion project that extends from the city of Madison down to the Illinois state line. It's going to include the reconstruction of 11 interchanges, including two major system interchanges and two diverging diamonds. The project is going to be managed in three separate segments with separate teams working on each segment and a corridor management team providing oversight over the entire project. The project will be funded in three phases with the mainline expansion being completed under the first phase of the project and then reconstruction and reconfiguration of what they call the Beltline System Interchange outside of Madison in the second phase, and then a potential future improvements on a portion of the Beltline west of the Beltline Interchanges as a third phase. Another project - we're not the lead on - but it's the St. Croix River Crossing. Minnesota DOT is the lead agency. We're sharing costs associated with the new structure and constructing the Wisconsin approaches, which include the construction of Wisconsin Highway 64 to the new crossing, the relocation of Wisconsin Highway 35, the construction of a new Wisconsin Highway 35 and County E interchange and a new bike-ped facility. This project is currently about 50 percent complete. It has a unique structure that's using a series of short towers with cables that connect to the bridge deck, and an existing lift bridge will be converted to a bike-ped facility. Construction challenges on this project have included dealing with harsh winters and high water levels and dealing with erosion control on the Wisconsin approaches, and working through contractor and laborer issues. Another major project in Wisconsin is the I-43 North-South project. It's currently in final design stage with construction scheduled to begin in 2018. It's a 14-mile reconstruction and expansion project, and that is located just north of the city of Milwaukee. We actually signed the record of decision in November of 2014. The project is going to include the reconstruction of seven interchanges and the construction of one new interchange. One of the interchanges will be a diverging diamond and another will convert an existing partial interchange into a full interchange. And then the five projects that are listed above are in the NEPA phase. They all include major reconstruction and potential capacity expansion, and they're all located in Wisconsin's most heavily traveled highways. And I tried to go through this very, very quickly and just give some small facts, but additional information about each of these study projects can be found on WisDOT's website, so if anybody had any other questions they can go there. And that's all I wanted to do, was just lead in with a quick intro for WisDOT, and I think I'm going to be handing it over to Bob now.
LaToya Johnson: All right, thank you Michael, and thank you so much Pennsylvania DOT - Bryan, Gary and Dean. Great presentation, great overview about the project. With that, I just wanted to wrap up really quickly. I had a couple of announcements that I thought would be of interest to our audience. One, that yearly Federal Highway goes in and we confirm and update our number of major projects throughout the country, and we just recently updated this material. And so our updated number of active major projects - and these are projects that have completed environmental documents and have moved into the major project requirements, such as the financial plan , we have 114 active major projects. So you can kind of see the spread of where these projects are throughout the country - California and Texas, no surprise, leading the way. But Pennsylvania is there, as is Connecticut and Wisconsin. And then as far as future major projects - and these are projects that are still in the early environmental phases or planning phases - you can see the spread of projects. And the green are states that don't currently have active major projects, but are anticipated in the near future that they will potentially have a major project. So just FYI information. And then a follow-up to a webinar that we did back in February, I just wanted to let everyone know that the updated financial plan guidance was issued in December, and there are several resources on our website, including the guidance, examples, and the federal register notice, as well as the recorded webinar that we did in February. If you missed that, that is available on our website to download. So feel free to visit the website and look at any of that information and give us a call if you have any questions or comments. And then lastly, I just wanted to announce that our next joint DOT-Federal Highway webinar is tentatively scheduled for October. So if you have any suggestions for presentations or you would like to do a presentation, or if you would like to request that someone does a presentation, please contact me and we'll try to get them on that agenda. And then for Federal Highway, our next quarterly webinar, internal webinar, will be on Tuesday, August 4. So with that, we will wrap up. Again, I want to say thank you to all of our presenters. Great presentations. And for the audience, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to them. You heard a wealth of knowledge and information today, and as we close, if you could just take a moment to answer four quick poll questions just to give us some feedback as we continue to do this in the future. So again, thank you everyone, and have a wonderful afternoon. 2ff7e9595c
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