Abreu questions DOT on contractor roles and implementation cost for Intro 866
Abreu asks what role contractors play in posting notification signs and about implementation costs. Malamy says contractors already have statutory notice requirements, and while he lacks a specific budget figure, additional signage work would detract from other outreach efforts DOT finds most effective.
What role do contractors or utilities play in ensuring that these notification signs are put up?
Yeah, so certainly, you know, we have a number of notice requirements in statutes and in rules that, you know, non-DOT partners like contractors
are required to install along the corridor of a project or of their work.
How much does DOT anticipate it would cost to implement Intro A66?
I don't have a budget amount, but we are sensitive to the fact that
additional signage work with printing and installing and maintaining and updating and removing those signs so there isn't
litter on the streets would detract from the other work that the agency does as far as
coordinating with elected officials'offices and holding the meetings and street ambassador deployments, as I mentioned, that we feel are
most effective at getting the word out and informing the public and hearing back from the public on their concerns around a given project.
So we're sensitive to those tradeoffs.
Thank you.
Councillor Amarte?