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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.
Brannin said the timeline be-
tween the first and second phases of
construction is unclear because the
funding for each phase is dispensed
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Brannin cited the value of consoli—
dating a number of disparate MTA
resources into the Log Yard Road
park—and-ride, transit building and
bus canopy, so drivers will be closer
to their vehicles, and the MTA’s fleet
will be more centralized and secure.
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