Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Vote soon on Fort Wash. Way cost hikes
Additional projects total $56 million
BY EARNEST WINSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati City Council may approve a $56.2 million increase for reconstruction of Fort Washington Way as early as Wednesday.
Construction costs are now expected to total $206.1 million. Council has until June 23 to approve the additional costs.
The Public Works and Utilities Committee recommended Mondaythat council OK an emergency ordinance for costs from unanticipated projects, said John Deatrick, Fort Washington Way project manager.
“We're expanding the scope of the project,” Mr. Deatrick said, stressing that the additional costs are not overruns.
The project's price tag may increase again if more components are added. “You never know what's in the pipeline or what could happen,” Mr. Deatrick said.
The ordinance would approve an $18 million advance from the Ohio Department of Transportation, which would cover $8 million needed to pay for a piece of property the city did not originally think it would need for the project. The other $10 million would cover costs for the interior of a two-tiered transit center being planned for Second Street. That money won't be needed before August 2000.
The $18 million could be repaid with federal money or future ODOT funding.
Other projects that have been added to the Fort Washington Way project include:
• $32 million reconstruction of the Third Street Viaduct to make it wider and safer.
• $9.2 million combined sewer overflow improvements that will cut the number of times sewage overflows into the Ohio River from 65 times a year to four.
• $14.4 million for ramps connecting the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge and the Taylor Southgate Bridge more directly.
Fort Washington Way reconstruction is to be finished in August 2000.
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