Complexities, Tragedies, Trials and Triumphs-A Day in the Life of One City Engineer and His 19 Million Dollar Gorilla-Worthington, Ohio’s North East Gateway Project
(Room 617)
10 Sep 19
3:00 PM
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3:50 PM
In 2012, the City of Worthington, Ohio, embarked on a massive undertaking, the full scope of which was not understood in the early stages. A problematic intersection, dubbed “The North East Gateway” in the City’s industrial sector had posed serious challenges for over two decades. This $19 million project has become the engineering challenge of a career, involving not only the roadways and railways, but regional transmission pipelines for oil, gas and water, industrial wastewater, electric service, telecom, multiple fiber optic lines, and no less than 124 separate parcels to acquire for right-of-way. When completed, the project will not only move higher volumes of traffic efficiently, but it will make accommodation for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, allow for expansion of public transit line along the corridor, include space for public art, improve an impaired waterway and incorporate smart technologies in signalization and street lighting. Don’t miss this story of how the engineer how wrangled this gorilla and kept in line.