Five new projects will improve 14.5 lane miles of street
Brian Coddington, Communications Director, 625.6740
Monday, August 28, 2017 at 10:38 a.m.
The City of Spokane has landed a new $5 million grant of federal dollars that will continue the progress on street maintenance delivered by the Fix-It-Fest program, adding 14.5 lane miles of grind and overlay work to the City’s construction program over the next two years.
“We’ve had a lot of success this summer with our Fix-It-Fest program, as we’ve ramped up maintenance work to improve safety and drivability on streets around our City,” says Mayor David Condon. “This new grant will help keep the momentum of that program going with more dollars going to basic street maintenance.”
The projects will include grind and overlay work on:
The projects will be bid as a package with work occurring in 2018 and 2019. Overall, the work is expected to cost about $7 million, with the rest covered by 2014 Street Levy dollars. Some of the work will help preserve streets that were rebuilt in the last 10 to 15 years. The projects will be in addition to maintenance work that will be completed by the City’s Street Department in those years.
The Mayor and Street Director announced the Fix-It-Fest 2017 program in June. The program has included work on about 14 miles of street using a variety of techniques, along with crack sealing and pothole repair. Most of the work already has been completed. See the updated list of Fix-It-Fest projects.
With the passage of the 2014 Street Levy, the City committed to a street program that includes both complete rebuilds of streets, along with a program of maintenance work that preserves streets that have already been rebuilt and improves conditions on those awaiting major repairs.
“A good street program includes both maintenance work and reconstruction,” says Mayor Condon. “We are working to get the greatest value out of the dollars we spend on our streets.”
