City to start new street, road projects
Biggest projects include Plano, Orange and Henderson
Now that the city adopted its budget, a series of street and road projects will soon begin, including work on Plano Street and Orange and Henderson Avenues, which Mike Reed said are the biggest projects for this fiscal year.
Reed, the city’s public works director, said Plano Street, which is a carry-over project from last year’s fiscal budget, is predominantly a microsurfacing job. He said because there are a lot of sections that have structural failure, dig outs and repairs will have to be completed before any work on the microsurfacing occurs.
Reed noted, however, that before anything takes place, the city will have to replace an older water main between Highway 190 and the south side of the bridge, and from the north side of the bridge to Date Avenue.
“We will do a new water main as part of our water replacement program,” Reed said, adding that the project limit is from Highway 190 to Henderson Avenue.
Additionally, Reed said because the Federal Highway Administration now mandates, with microsurfacing projects, that all intersections comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act, the city will also have to replace over 50 ADA ramps for the project as well.
Reed said he will advertise for bids on the microsurfacing project for Plano Street next week and hopes to award it in the city council’s first meeting of August.
He said the city’s Measure R will be the main funding source for the project, which he said is probably going to take about 60 working days.
The Henderson Avenue Project, Reed said, will be a full-blown reconstruction between Jaye Street and Indiana.
Reed said work on Henderson Avenue, which is also a carryover project, will involve replacing a 16inch water main and re-doing all of the ADA ramps in that area. Part of the project, Reed
said, will include reconstructing a small section west of Newcomb Street, between Newcomb and Patsy.
“There’s some bad asphalt in that area,” Reed said.
Reed said the Henderson Avenue Reconstruction Project will cost $1.4 million and noted that it is currently being evaluated by an engineer.
“If he gets done then we may go out to bid this summer and make it a fall project,” Reed said, adding, “But if it starts getting to the point where we may be pushing it out a little bit and we get worried about the winter months we will push it out to a spring project in the next fiscal year.”
He said that project will also take about 60 working days to complete and will be funded through the city’s local transportation funds.