Metro Nashville is handing Dallas-based Jacobs a hefty to-do list along with a $44.2 million contract, tasking the engineering giant with turning the city’s Choose How You Move vision into actual concrete, crosswalk paint and bus lanes on the ground.
Over the three-year agreement, Jacobs will guide engineering and design work for sidewalks, traffic signals and major transit corridors as the voter-backed program shifts from planning to visible construction. City officials say the contract is supposed to speed up adaptive traffic signals, new pedestrian connections and dedicated transit lanes across Davidson County.
The Metro Council signed off on an ordinance authorizing a contract with Jacobs Engineering Group not to exceed $44.2 million, with a three-year base term and options for extension, according to the Nashville Post. The agreement is available for multiple Metro departments and is one of roughly 30 contracts NDOT is using to carry out the Choose How You Move program.
What Jacobs Will Do
In a company press release carried by Business Wire, Jacobs spells out a broad menu of services: multimodal planning, environmental compliance, traffic engineering and construction support, among others. The scope includes building 86 miles of new sidewalks and modernizing nearly 600 traffic signals across the county, with Jacobs describing the work as program-management support that should let Metro move faster on dozens of projects citywide…