Council OK's 18th Project for Bids

Grove's future transportation system took a giant leap forward this week when City Council unanimously approved authorization to advertise for bids for the 18 Street/Shundi Road project, estimated to cost just under $2 million.
The project has been hotly debated for months, after it became apparent that widening 13th Street from Sumac to Shundi would be too expensive, with utility relocations.
Bids are to be received Sept. 21 at 2 p.m.
The design calls for eventually a 4-lane divided roadway but initial construction will be for a two-lane road with bicycle path on the north side.

The roadway will be on a 10 inch aggregate base with six inches of asphalt, with curbs and guttering and openings every sixth mile for cross traffic streets. It will go from Sumac across a field, up a hill and north of the current communications tower just south of the new hospital site.
The hospital is expected to be built in 2009 or sooner, a hospital official said this week.
Shundi will be three laned from 18th to 9th street, and eventually to Highway 10, serving as a bypass around downtown Grove.
The project was outlined by Darold Davis of Garver Engineers, LLC, Tulsa, which considered alignment, right of way, utility accommodations, and legal issues for 18th street, and major drainage issues, utilities, and sanitary sewer relocations for Shundi to the north.
Councilman Terry Ryan asked that the city also estimate costs using city personnel to build the roadway, outsourcing the curbs and gutters, as a comparison.