Dallas Public Works has 1,400 projects scheduled for the fiscal year that began in October, but just over 200 are completed. One city council member is sounding an alarm that the city is falling too far behind to catch up.
has many street problems and there are new concerns the city is falling behind in catching up with them.that’s responsible for routine street maintenance and bond money capital improvement projects has 1,432 street, alley, sidewalk or bridge jobs on the Fiscal Year 2023 work plan that began in October. A report of progress through January shows 236 completed.Member Cara Mendelsohn said. “When I saw this report, this caused me to lose sleep.
One example of many is West Davis Street between Ravinia and Paisley Street in Oak Cliff. Portions have no sidewalks. Vacant buildings on the commercial stretch might attract new businesses with a better street. The segment was scheduled for total reconstruction and new sidewalks with money from the 2017 public improvement bond referendum. Records show the job is not set to begin now until 2025.“If you open more facilities, more commercial and everything, they pay the taxes. They pay the road to be fixed. Everybody can win with all this,” he said.“This is a major concern. Streets are a priority for our people and our quality of life,” she said.
Officials said two new contractors were hired in February to help tackle street maintenance issues that grew during the“2021 and 2022 were the years we were struggling because of the pandemic, because of the shortage of the concrete and all these problems that we had. But I’m pretty sure that we’re going to have a higher number down the road, that we can move forward with these new contracts that we have,” said Dallas Public Works Director Ali Hatefi.
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