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„~.,, <br />N' <br />REPAIR AND RESURFACING OF INTERSTATE ROUTE 90 <br />URBAN SECTION <br />CITY OF CLEVELAND <br />Client: Ohio Department of Transportation <br />Project Cost: $12.0 Million <br />Completion Date: 1994 <br />Description: <br />Interstate Route 90 in the west side of the City of Cleveland carries four lanes of traffic in each <br />direction and is a vital link connecting the western suburbs to Downtown, besides carrying traffic <br />on the urterstate link between Chicago, Illinois,'and Buffalo, New York. It was originally designed <br />and constructed in the 1960's and 1970's with concrete pavement, asphalt shoulders, and concrete <br />barriers along portions of the median. ' <br />Polytech, Inc. as prime consultant is responsible for designing the repair, resurfacing and upgrading <br />of a 6 mile section between West 159th Street and West 44th Street, a section which includes five <br />(5) interchanges, seven (7) dual bridges, and thirteen (13) single bridges. The contract; plans <br />include the follow.~.ng items of work: <br />1) Roadway design: <br />- concrete pavement repairs by partial-depth, full-depth or complete slab replacement <br />- widening of sub-standard ramps <br />- construction o-f new concrete shoulders <br />- replacement or reconstruction of pressure relief joints <br />- resurfacing of mainline, ramps and marginal roads <br />- removal of concrete curbing at gore areas <br />- guardrail replacement, including upgrading of terminal assemblies- to meet current <br />standards <br />- reshaping and upgrading drainage ditches and structures <br />- installation of new underdrains <br />- right-of--way fence replacement <br />,gin,. <br />2) Maintenance of traffic: <br />- provisions for three lanes of traffic in each direction throughout construction <br />- phase construction plans, showing use of new concrete shoulders <br />- maintenance of traffic on ramps, and weaving of exit and entrance ramps into <br />mainline traffic <br />- details to show taper lengths and locations of signs and separators. The taper <br />lengths vary at each interchange, because the exit and entrance ramps are so close to <br />each other <br />. V,...~ b,,u .Y <br />