Public Meeting for Road Project for 120th St. - City of Omaha

Last night there was a public meeting at Sunny Slope Elementary School to present plans for widening 120th Street from Roanoake Blvd. south to Stonegate Dr. I met Dave N. there and we listened to presentations from the city planners and the engineering firm hired by the city. It was an open forum meeting with about 40 people in attendance. Dennis Bryers of the city planning parks division fielded questions about the bike path work in conjunction with the street expansion project. There were questions from the audience about access to little league and soccer. The intent was to keep that access open. There were also questions regarding the time frame of the project. Here is a quick summary of information from this 120th Street Expansion Meeting.

• Scheduled
  to start in 2015 at the earliest (if budgeting allows).


• Project
  should take less than 2 years.


• They
  are 30% complete with project planning and in the environmental study
  phase.


• The
  road will be closed to attempt to complete the project as fast as possible.


• The trail in this project currently does not connect to Big Papio Trail (D. Bryers mentioned this would happen after the completion of this project).

The engineering firm working for the city on this is Schemmer. They had large drawings of the current project design on the walls of the gym. There was a Public Comment Form that attendees were encouraged to fill out to express there comments and concerns in writing. This form would be sent to:
City of Omaha
Public Works Department
Jon T. Meyer
Design Division
1819 Farnam Street, Suite 600
Omaha NE 68183
Jmeyer@ci.omaha.ne.us
Ph. 444-4191
After the meeting was over, Dave and I took a minute to go find Dennis Bryers and thank him for approval of the Tranquility singletrack trail expansion north of Fort Street. Dennis mentioned that with the snow outlining the trail, it was easy for him to see what had been accomplished. He seemed impressed with the work that was done this past fall. For more info on the singletrack trail north of Fort St. click here.On this presentation they talk about Section 6f and 4f properties in the area. We were happy to see Tranquility Park and Mountain Biking mentioned.