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City looking at roundabout near high school; storm drainage along South West Street

Plans for a roundabout to ease traffic congestion near Shelbyville High School and drainage improvements on the city's southwest side have the go-ahead.

 

The Shelbyville Board of Works has approved contracts with two companies to develop proposals for those projects.

 

City Engineer Matt House presented the contracts to the board on Tuesday. The first is an agreement with Zimmer Construction Engineering LLC of Indianapolis for the roundabout.

 

“It's for intersection improvements on Miller Street and McKay Road. It's a signed contract; there'll be a contract between us and the state coming later. We got a $2.4 million grant awarded last year for intersection improvements. We have a traffic system that points to a roundabout as the best solution,” House told the board.

 

Construction could begin in 2022 and finish in 2023, he said.

 

House noted that roundabout circles can be offset so traffic can continue to flow through the intersection during much of the construction.

 

Board of Works member David Finkel is also on the Shelbyville Central School board. He said the school is all for the project.

 

Sidewalks for the area near the high school will be put in along with the roundabout, Finkel added.

 

The second contract House presented to the Board of Works was for drainage upgrades to the area of Shelbyville between McKay Road and Evans Street, down the hill from Miller Street.

 

Commonwealth Engineers Inc. of Indianapolis has looked at a drainage pipe that runs along the bottom of that hill and drains south to a ditch, House said after the meeting.

 

So last year they studied the capacity of the pipe and the ditch. They found out the pipe is really undersized, the ditch is undersized. So even if you fix one or the other, you still have some flooding,” he said.

 

Solutions look to be expensive, so they're trying to find cost-effective remedies, House said.

 

The contract with Commonwealth is for general services, so there's no fixed amount, he said.

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