I-49 services as the main corridor in Northwestern Arkansas. However, it limits access in the Uptown District on either side of the highway between high demand commercial, entertainment, medical, and residential areas. The City recognized the barrier that I-49 creates and the critical need to improve the connectively for all modes of transportation to these regionally significant facilities.
The City selected Garver to provide professional engineering services that included alternative studies, surveying, design, maintenance of traffic plans, agency coordination, landscape architecture, environmental permitting, water/sewer relocations, bidding, and construction phase services.
The project included new road construction of approximately 1,700-feet, a raised intersection with stamped colored concrete, a bus stop pull-off lane and bus shelter for mass transit, a bike plaza equipped with bike racks, repair stations ,and water refill fountains, a 232-foot bridge providing safe pedestrian and vehicle access over I-49.
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