Client
Polk County
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Location
Polk County, Florida
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Key BCI Staff
Walter Reigner, PE, CPESC
Timothy Kelly, PE
Stephen Hjelle, PEÂ
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Project Costs
$280,000
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Start Date
1998
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Completion Date
2002

Scope

BCI has completed a variety of intersection improvement projects for Polk County while performing transportation consulting services.

Those projects include:

• SR 655 & Coleman Road Intersection
  BCI added a turn lane, revised signalization, eliminated deep roadside ditches, and designed a closed conveyance system to maintain existing right-of-way.
• CR 542 & Dixie Highway Intersection
  BCI added signalization and left turn lanes and closed the drainage system to maintain existing right-of-way.
• Bridges & Bennet Intersection
  BCI revised a five-way intersection into a four-way and three-way intersection to improve traffic flow safety.
• SR 655 & Summerset Intersection
  Left turn lanes were added on SR 655 into a subdivision.
• Buckeye Road & Buckeye Loop Intersection
  BCI added a left turn lane on each road.

BCI also completed the following comprehensive improvements:

• Geotechnical investigation of roadway improvements including soil borings for pavements, drainage swales and mast arm foundations
• Topographical survey and right-of-way control mapping
• Roadway plans, drainage plans, signing and marking plans, and traffic control plans
• Replaced open ditches with swales and ditch bottom inlets
• Added left turn lanes and widened all travel lanes to 12 feet
• Redesigned storm sewer system to accept flows from new intersection configuration
• Redesigned intersection containing third diagonal street by dividing into two intersections
• Prepared utility adjustment plans
• Obtained drainage permits from Southwest Florida Water Management District