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Democracy on the Front Lines
City Administrator’s Blog
Walter Denton
May 30, 2007
It is summer construction season again. There will not be as many orange construction signs in O’Fallon as on I-64, but we will be working on the streets again this year.
The most visible project will be the North Lincoln reconstruction project. The contractor (Hanks Excavating) should begin any day now. This is Phase 2 of the project that began last year and work will be from Jefferson to East Monroe and includes the construction of new concrete curb and gutter, concrete sidewalks and asphalt pavement. The project should take about two months, dependent on weather. During the reconstruction, the road will be closed and we will detour traffic as best as possible.
Phase 3 will be next year and will reconstruct North Lincoln up to Wesley and then we will be done. While it would be been more efficient to do the entire stretch of Lincoln at one time, we just did not have enough money. The project is funded by the voter-approved ½-cent Proposition S sales tax, and we only have a certain amount of money per year for the project.
The other major project out of the Prop S sales tax is the Asphalt Paving Program. Work has begun, most noticeably at Lincoln and State Street. The street improvements will consist of road milling, application of prime and sand, and asphalt resurfacing. The streets scheduled for improvement this week are: Sherryl Ct., Pheasant Run, E. Brittany Ln., W. Brittany Ln., Arrowhead, Jennifer, Nicole and Robert. Future streets include:
-- June 4-June 8: Hilgard, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, & Seventh Streets and North Lincoln
-- June 11-June 15: Country Oaks, Kensington, Oak Hollow, Oak Meadow, Oak Ridge, Oak Creek, and Royal Oak
-- June 18-June 22: Thornbury Place, Victoria, Coachlight, Ciswick, Aladar, Amy, Loblolly, Shingle Pine, Rutherford Ridge
The Asphalt Paving Program has been extremely successful. Prior to the approval of the Prop S sales tax in 2000, O’Fallon streets had been repaved in over 30 years. Since the paving program began in 2003, 42 miles of streets have been repaved at a total cost of $6.8 million.
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