Park-and-ride shelters on the move

Parking shelters are losing their home next to John Wayne Parkway but may eventually rise again at City Hall.

It is the effect of construction of an overpass. 

The park-and-ride property next to the former F.O.R. Maricopa food bank building was purchased by Arizona Department of Transportation from the City of Maricopa. It is in the path of the overpass, which is designed to take State Route 347 over the Union Pacific tracks from Hathaway Avenue to Desert Cedars Drive.

As part of the city’s transaction with ADOT, Public Works Director Bill Fay said the parking shelters are considered personal property that must be bought or relocated.

Because of the relatively fast pace ADOT has set for itself, it does not have time to relocate the shelters, which would require a design plan by ADOT. Instead, temporary storage at Wilson and Madison avenues awaits.

“For now, they will store them in the [old City Hall] lot,” Fay said. “The intent is to install them at City Hall.”

Another option for ADOT is installing the shelters at Copper Sky. Fay said the problem with that idea is most of the parking is arced, and the shelters are not. That makes the City Hall lot the most likely new home for the structures, when ADOT has time to reconstruct them.

Tuesday, workers with Resolute Performance Contracting, contracted by ADOT, took the parking shelters apart piece by piece.

Park-and-Ride dismantled

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