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I I I I . Engineer Lee advised that by eliminating the Wilson Street detour the length of the - project would be shortened by two to three months. Engineer Lee described the numbers in Attachment 2 handed out at this meeting including $334,000 in the C.1.P. for signalization to be applied to this project and the $175,000 for soil remediation that the City hopes to recoup, and advised that the budget deficit would then be $775,000. D. Public comment Nick Watry, 1050 Lakeview Way, Redwood City, member of the Redwood City Planning Commission, spoke in favor of keeping the Wilson Street detour and questioned the quoted savings of $600,000. Mr. Watry said the intersection at Maple and Main Street was an accident waiting to happen. He suggested as an alternative to Wilson Street detour: Down Jefferson to Middlefield Road to Franklin. Mr. Watry said the inflation rate has been closer to 12% rather than 16% as staff has stated. He said using that rate would reduce the deficit by $513,000. Mr. Watry said he also questioned the retaining wall overcosts and suggested other creative ways to solve the problems which would include more pile driving and cooperation ITom neighboring businesses. He also suggested the use oftie-backs and expressed the hope that Sequoia Station might pay for them. Don Saye, 2021 Broadway, Redwood City, said the Wilson Street detour "was a safe means of allowing traffic to continue, but that dogleg is almost untransversable by the eye much less in a car, ..... it is a useless dogleg and a waste of money." Mr. Saye said the --- traffic on Jefferson needs to be slowed down right now, and asked about the safety and height limit of the overpass. In answer to Council questions, Engineer Lee advised there would be signals at El Camino and Maple and Maple and Middlefield which were already budgeted, as well as a four-way stop at Maple and Main. David LaVelle said that BKF developed the estimate along with their consultants, and they believed the costs were based on current bids and the 16% inflation factor was not built in. He said they did not go back to the original budget and inflate it by 16%. That figure was used to show that the 1990 funding at $11 million did not anticipate the project would be built in 1996/97. Mr. LaVelle described tie-backs and why they would not work in the subject area. Mr. LaVelle assured everyone that the height of the bridge would be built with a 15 feet clearance, and at the lowest part of the bridge it would still be 1.5 feet higher than any vehicle on the road. He said the Jefferson Underpass would not experience the problems with trucks Mr. Saye described in other cities. E. Discussion among City Council Members; and F. Action by City Council on staff recommendations as listed in the March 18, 1996 staff report. "--- MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Page No. 141 Special Council Meeting Minutes March 18, 1996 Page 4