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Planning, Designing, and Maintaining Roadways under the Pressure of a Booming Oil Industry

Planning, Designing, and Maintaining Roadways under the Pressure of a Booming Oil Industry. Joint Western/Midwestern District ITE Annual Meeting Rapid City, SD June 29-July 2, 2014 Wayne A. Z acher, P. E . Before and After Boom Hit. ND Highway 1806 on September 2, 2010.

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Planning, Designing, and Maintaining Roadways under the Pressure of a Booming Oil Industry

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  1. Planning, Designing, and Maintaining Roadways under the Pressure of a Booming Oil Industry Joint Western/Midwestern District ITE Annual Meeting Rapid City, SD June 29-July 2, 2014 Wayne A. Zacher, P. E.

  2. Before and After Boom Hit ND Highway 1806 on September 2, 2010 ND Highway 1806 on April 28, 2011

  3. Western North Dakota now (2013)

  4. US 85 in 2013

  5. Objectives • Planning • Coordination between Agencies and Public • Design/ROW Process • Timing • Maintaining • Traffic Growth

  6. 2008

  7. 2013

  8. Planning • Newspaper Articles • Northwest North Dakota accounts for more than half of fatal crashes (Bismarck Tribune, 5/4/14)

  9. News Headlines • Bypass project underway in Alexander (Bismarck Tribune, 4/8/14) • “We get our little town back.” Mayor Jerry Hatter • Oil patch plea: More help (Bismarck Tribune 2/19/14) • Watford City according to 2010 census 1700; now estimated between 7500 and 10,000

  10. News Headlines • Arnegard worried new road too fast for safety (Bismarck Tribune 9/28/13) • Talks about how “…it is suicide…” to come into town to get mail or club meetings • Theodore Roosevelt Expressway, US Highway 85, a growing corridor (Bismarck Tribune 9/15/13) • Talks about controversies to expanding corridor to something wider than current conditions

  11. News Headlines • Right-of-way costs soar on US Highway 85 (Bismarck Tribune 9/15/13) • Watford City mayor calls out state after deaths (Williston Herald 3/7/13) • Discusses how the NDDOT is not completing work fast enough • 2 teens were killed when they crossed the centerline and were hit by a semi

  12. Planning • Types of projects that have been completed • Super-2/Passing Lanes • Concrete Inlays • Concrete Overlays • Widening with HBP Overlay • Bypasses (Concrete and HBP) • Roundabout

  13. Concrete Inlay • Concrete Inlay

  14. Concrete Overlay

  15. Widening with HBP Overlay

  16. Bypasses • 7 Bypasses at some stage of completion (2 others currently programmed)

  17. Roundabout • Intersection of 2 state highways (ND 22 and 200) • Large amount of push back from public until completed • Communities asking for more to be installed • 2006-2012 showed a 360% increase in traffic and over 1,000% increase in trucks • http://www.dot.nd.gov/travel-info-v2/

  18. Roundabout from the air

  19. Roundabout from the air

  20. Roundabout from ground level

  21. Planning • Agency Requirements for Streamlining • Direct involvement throughout • Clear understanding of agency requirements • Openness and honesty

  22. Planning • Environmental Process • Document Types • Studies (Traffic, Noise, etc.) • Public Meetings

  23. Design • Concurrent with environmental studies and clearances • Engineering vs Emotions

  24. Design • Right of Way • Plats • Began as soon as enough design completed to determine limits • Acquisitions • Costs ranged from $25,000 to $165,000/acre • Temporary Construction Easements typically 10% of permanent acquisition

  25. Maintaining • System Condition: • Increased traffic volumes, (particularly heavy trucks), have accelerated the deterioration of county, township, tribal roads and state highwaysin the oil impacted areas. Roadways in the western part of the state were originally built to handle agriculture traffic (small grains and ranching) and were not built to carry the heavy loads associated with oil development. • The picture illustrates damage that has occurred on US 85 due to increased heavy truck traffic. US 85

  26. Summary • Issues facing the Highway Infrastructure in North Dakota • Streamlining techniques and lessons learned • The “Normal” way of doing things has gone away

  27. Thank you • Wayne Zacher • (701) 328-4828 • wzacher@nd.gov

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