North Garfield Avenue
Enhanced roadway planning to reduce costs and disruptions.
Project Facts
| Location | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Owner | City of Kansas City, Missouri |
| Size | 1,900 LF |
| Cost | $700,000 |
| Status | Completed 2013 |
Overview
To improve parts of North Garfield Avenue in Kansas City, Walter P Moore teamed with MEGA Industries on this award-winning design-build project that focused on minimal disturbances to existing site features as well as best practices to preserve Missouri’s parkland and waters.
Services
About this project
The roadway reconstruction of North Garfield Avenue included pavement removal, a new asphalt roadway with concrete curbs and gutters, intersection improvements, drainage improvements, residential driveway replacements, and new concrete sidewalks.
The existing asphalt street varied in width and had roadside ditches to convey stormwater runoff. The existing narrow street section, power poles, underground utilities, and residential driveway slopes made a new design more challenging.
To work around the existing challenges, a horizontal alignment was designed to change with the right-of-way to accommodate existing site features, without being noticeable to the drivers. The roadway cross-section was also designed to match the existing grades and features along the corridor and to minimize utility relocations, reduce disruptions to the property owners, and lower overall construction costs.
Finally, a vegetated filter strip was added to improve the quality of stormwater runoff before it entered the city’s park property. In addition to this Best Management Practice, native grass seeding was also incorporated into the project.
