F'ville to consider sidewalk project

Mon, 01/18/2010 - 8:28am
By: Ben Nelms

The Fayetteville City Council on Thursday will consider authorizing a resolution that would lead to a sidewalk installation project through Georgia Dept. of Transportation (GDOT) and U.S. Dept. of Transportation. The $630,000 project includes a 20 percent match by the city.

City engineer Don Easterbrook said the project specifies three sidewalk areas that include White Road from Ga. Highway 314 to Heaton Lakes, Ga. Highway 92 (Forrest Ave.) from Ga. Highway 85 to Timberlane Drive and Hood Ave. from Hwy. 85 to Gingercake Landings.

The sidewalks will be eight feet wide except on White Road between Innisbrook Way and Heaton Lakes where they will be five feet wide because of existing conditions, Easterbrook said in a Jan. 7 letter.

A part of the federal Transportation Enhancement Activities (TEA) program, the federal government will put up $504,000 with the city contributing $126,000.

Easterbrook said the city expects to receive a notice to proceed to bid approximately one month after the GDOT receives the city’s authorization.

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Submitted by Arf on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:20am.

And why are we even considering wasting money on this kind of unneeded junk when we could use it for much more necessary projects?

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Submitted by Tiger Dad on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 11:00am.

Fayetteville's current mayor Steele and most of the city council members, that's why. Paul Oddo is the only respectable member of the council. We tried to get fresh faces in the council to prevent this kind of stuff, but ignorant voters and citizens with personal agendas continue to vote these people into office. I refuse to listen to any citizen of Fayetteville complain about stuff like this. If you did not vote or if you cast an ignorant or personal agenda based vote, you have to live with it.


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