Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Study focuses on the disadvantaged Walker’s Point neighborhood in the City of Milwaukee that is divided by the I-94/43 National Avenue Interchange. The Study will identify and evaluate alternatives to reconnect the neighborhoods and address safety and mobility concerns with a focus on community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, and/or mitigating highways and other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity. The study will also identify community concerns, create a collective vision, develop a range of improvement alternatives, and conduct a feasibility study that will investigate traffic, ramp geometries, street connections, shared use paths, and other potential improvements. Perform traffic operations modeling and analysis, safety analysis using predictive analysis, environmental review (no formal document anticipated), agency coordination (high level), public involvement and stakeholder engagement, future land use planning and economic analysis, and equity related analysis. Analyze/Evaluate: 1) mobility, 2) access, 3) safety, 4) environmental impacts, 5) congestion, 6) economic development, 7) quality of life, 8) equity, 9) future land use scenarios and 10) current condition including: structures, pavement, and an operational assessment. Identify a full range of preliminary alternatives including: no build, replace in kind, modernization, or a combination of those stated. This solicitation will document needs for future projects and be used for planning. The “Reimagining the National Avenue Interchange” study is not intended to be a NEPA document or formal Planning and Environmental Linkage (PEL) study but it may include elements of a PEL study.
