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City of Nashua, Public Works Division
Board of Public Works Meeting Date: June 23, 2016
Stephen Dookran, P.E., City Engineer
Engineering Department
Concord Street Crosswalk Improvements
To approve the construction contract for the Concord Street Crosswalk
Improvements projects to Arlington Paving Co of Keene, NH in an amount of
$34,657.50. Funding will be through: Department 161 Streets; Fund: Prior Year
Escrow; Account Category; 81 Capital Improvements
The Concord Street Crosswalk Improvements project is being performed on
Concord Street at the following six intersections: Manchester St., Laton St.,
Courtland St., Hall Ave., Columbia Ave. and Bartlett Ave. The crosswalk bump-
outs were recently completed by Hutter Construction. Based on the positioning of
the newly constructed bump-outs, it is necessary to reconstruct these crosswalks
to ensure safety of the pedestrian crossing at these heavily traffic intersections.
The design includes the installation of XD “Brick” Pattern which is expected to
last five to seven times longer than the red crosswalk paint.
The XD “Brick” Pattern product was installed by Arlington Paving at the West
Hollis Street and Riverside Street intersection two years ago and on Manchester
Street at the intersections with French Street and Mount Pleasant Street last year.
The XD crosswalks at these intersections thus far have held up well. We wish to
continue utilizing this product on Concord St. to extend the investigation of its
resilience to traffic and maintenance as a good alternative to the annual painting
of red school crosswalks. Arlington Paving is the only vendor in the region
offering this particular proprietary product so for this reason this is a sole source
award. .
The pavement at the crosswalks is in a deteriorated condition and will first be
milled out and repaved prior to installing the XD Pattern.
