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Progress on Mason Transit park—and-rides By Kirk Boxleitner kbox/eitner@masoncounty. com Although the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the Mason Transit Au- thority’s service, the MTA’s progress toward upgrading and expanding its park-and-ride stations has proceeded according to plan, according to the MTA Cole 8: Pickering ‘ roads, Pear Orchard MTA General Manager Danette Brannin noted that its existing park- and-ride locations at Cole and Pick- ering roads are due for upgrades starting after July 1, while its Pear Orchard park-and-ride improve- ments began in April 2019 before being temporarily shut down due to concerns about water contamination. Construction recently resumed. The Cole Road park-and-‘ride is set for 25 working days of construc- tion, to include pavement overlay, i1- lumination, video surveillance, sign- ing and striping, plus the addition of three parking stalls, for a total of 32 stalls, at a cost of $115,500. The Pickering Road park-and-ride is scheduled for 60 working days of construction, to include new pave- ment, pavement reconstruction, stormwater facilities, illumination, signs, striping and bus shelters, plus the addition of 42 parking stalls, for a total of 70 stalls, at a cost of $720,362, and is expected to wrap up early in 2022. The Pear Orchard park-and-ride is set for 75 working days of con— struction, to include new pavement, pavement reconstruction, stormwa- ter facilities, illumination, signing, striping and a bus shelter, plus 32 parking stalls, at a cost of $712,607, and is expected to end early in No- vember. “Because it’s city property, the city of Shelton hired its own consultant to test the soil, and they found no con- tamination,” Brannin said. “That area had already been informally used as a parking lot, and the city had previously planned to upgrade it, so by turning it into a park-and— ride, we’re formalizing an existing, demonstrated need.” Shelton Matlock “The Parsons-Scarsella Joint Ven- ture collaborated with the Mason Transit Authority for the replacement of the existing 30—stall park-and-ride facility next to U.S. 101, along Shel- ton Matlock Road,” Brannin said. “This replacement is required due to the realignment of the new U.S. 101 southbound off-ramp and the fish passage project.” ‘ The final configuration and loca- tion of the park-and-ride was coor- dinated with and approved by the MTA, and the Parsons-Scarsella Joint Venture is contractually obli- gated to provide the replacement of a 30-stall park-and-ride facility, at a cost. of $557,000, (note this is the cost of constructing the 65 stalls.) as part of the original scope of the U.S. 101 Coffee Creek fish barrier removal project. ' Brannin explained the MTA has since prepared plans, specifications and estimates package for a 65-stall park-and-ride facility, with addition— al upgrades, and has provided ap- proval and grant funding to pay for the additional work required to con- struct the facility. This additional work includes grading, surfacing, hot mix asphalt paving, drainage structures, storm- water conveyance and treatment facilities, erosion control, cement concrete traffic curbs and gutters, concrete wheel stops, pavement markings, landscaping, permanent signing and illumination. The cost of the project is $557,000, for which the MTA will reimburse WSDOT. The park-and-ride’s security equipment, bus shelters, light poles, mast arms, luminaires, service cabi- net, wire and Public Utility District service will not be included in PSJV’s portion of the work, and will instead be completed by the MTA once the rest of the park-and—ride is complet- ed, and a cost of $99,750. The Shelton Matlock Road park- . and-ride’s 20 working days of con- struction began at the end of August and is due to end in October. Log Yard Road in Belfair The intersection of Log Yard Road and state Route 3 in Belfair will serve as the site of a new park-and- ride, transit building and bus cano- py, with 227 working days of con- struction, from the start of the first phase near the end of September to the expected end of the second phase in January 2022. The first phase will cover the park- and-ride, with 102 parking stalls and an electric vehicle charging sta- tion, at a cost of $1.4 million. The second phase will cover the transit building and bus canopy, at a cost of $1,595,000. The construction is set to include pavement, sidewalks, Ameri- cans with Disabilities Act—compliant accommodations, stormwater facili- ties, a septic system, illumination, signs and striping. ' The transit building will include a new 3,000-square-foot single-story wood—framed structure constructed on a concrete slab, with new single- slope, single-ply roofing. The exterior walls will be a combination of wood and metal siding, with anodized alu- minum windows and doors, while the interior will be wood-framed walls with gypsum and what Brannin de- scribed as “some ceramic tile, with minimal interior finishes.” Plans call for fire suppression sys- tems for the transit building’s lobby, offices, conference rooms and small kitchen, as well as for the bus can- opy’s single-story steel-framed cano- py, which is open below its metal roof for the pass-through of buses. The bus canopy’s steel will be painted and its design includes sheet-metal gutters, downspouts and trim. 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