HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970 Tarrow Street Contract LetTarrow Street
Contract Let
The College Station City
Council awarded the contract
for extension of Tarrow Street
from University Drive to 29th
Street in Bryan to Young
Brothers, Inc., of Waco during
a special meeting last night.
Young Brothers bid $65,947.70
for the construction. The other
bidder, Hambrick Consolidated,
Inc., of Irving, bid $74,104.90.
The extension is a joint
project of Bryan and College
Station. College Station will
construct the street from the
bridge at Burton Creek to
University Drive. Bryan will
construct the bridge and the
rest of the extension.
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The Bryan City Commission
will accept bids on the extension
and bridges at 29th and at
Burton tonight.
Possibilities of naming the
connected streets general
Rudder Drive have been
discussed in both cities.
Ran Boswell, College Station
city manager, told the council
his estimate for the costs of
the extension was $68,000 and
that, "this (Young Brothers) is
pretty close to our estimate."
Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson
added that the contract award
is subject to the approval of
the engineering department.
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Anderson added that th e
Young Brothers bid called fo r
125 working days and th
Hambrick bid for 120 working
days.
Mrs. Mary Bryan of 140 2
Laura Lane, College Station,
asked the council if the cit y
was responsible for protecting
the persons who live on Tarrow
by installing sidewalks becaus e
the traffic would be heavier.
"There are only a few houses
on Tarrow," Councilman Bill
Cooley said.
Councilman Joe McGraw, who
abstained the vote, objected to
the extension's standards.
"We are permitting a sub-
standard street to be built. I'm
in opposition to this; it is
establishing a bad precedent,"
McGraw said.
He added that the street doe
not meet what he said th e
council terms "decent stan -
dards.'
"What are the objections o f
bringing it into Tarrow,"
Councilman James H. Dozier
asked.
"I don't remember all the
factors, but it seems like ex-
pense was one of them at the
time," Anderson said.
"The people on Munson said
they didn't want the damn
street there. So they moved it
to Tarrow where he people said
they wanted it," Dozier said.
Dozier asked Lloyd James,
city engineer, , wha he thought
of the plans for the extension.
"I wish I wasn't asked that
question from an engineer's
standpoint," James said.
"It's a 300 foot radius street,
which is less than the recom-
mendations for this type of
street. That's why we had to
jag it," James said, referring
to the street alignment.
"We have to reach a point
and go. We need a starting
place," Anderson said.
"We have .one, a street plan.
Are we planning for the hell
of it or are we going to follow
it ?" McGraw said.
s In other business, the council
adopted a resolution favoring
the Millican Dam proposal on
the Navasota River. Copies of
the resolution will be sent to
Congressmen Olin E. Teague
and George Bush, and Senators'
Ralph Yarborough, and John'',
Tower. _
Anderson said representatives
of area cities and governments
met at the B -CS Chamber of
Commerce last week to hear
a report on status of the
project.
"We were assured by Yar-
borough that it is likely that
both dam projects may be
funded. We (College Station)
are emphasizing the Millican
Dam project," Anderson said.
Dozier was chosen to attend
a conference in Washington