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RESOLUTION NO. 11,429
3 A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE SUBMISSION OF A PROJECT TO
4 METROPLAN FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN
5 INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (ITS) FOR UNIVERSITY
6 AVENUE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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8 WHEREAS, University Avenue is a major north -south arterial that connects Arkansas
9 Highway 10 on the north to I -30 on the south, and
10 WHEREAS, an STP Funded Project is already authorized to reconstruct University
11 Avenue to a six -lane facility that can address capacity and safety issues which currently exist,
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13 WHEREAS, in the meantime it would be helpful to create a fiber optic interconnection
14 to coordinate the thirty -eight (38) traffic signals on University Avenue as a part of an Intelligent
15 Transportation System Project (ITS), and that such a project could receive one hundred percent
16 (100 %) federal financing for this one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
17 ($1,650,000.00) cost,
18 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
19 CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
20 Section 1. The Board of Directors supports and authorizes the submission of an ITS
21 project proposal on the Regional Arterial Network on University Avenue to install 2.5 miles of
22 fiber optic to coordinate thirty-eight (38) traffic signals on University Avenue, and ask that
23 Metroplan approve this project.
24 Section 2. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence,
25 clause, phrase, or word of this resolution is declared or adjudged to be invalid or
26 unconstitutional, such declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of the
27 resolution which shall remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged
28 invalid or unconstitutional was not originally a part of the resolution.
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Resolution
Support of RS Project for University Avenue
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Section 3. Repealer. All laws and parts of laws are hereby repealed to the extent of
such inconsistency.
ADOPTED: January 21, 2003
ATTEST: APPROVED:
Na cy Wo d, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Thomas M. Carpenter, City Attorney
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Resolution
Support of ITS Project for University Avenue
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jijoailey, Mayor