A Danville City Council committee is recommending the full council approve plans for millions of dollars in street and infrastructure improvements. City Engineer Sam Cole says some of the work is planned in the area of the Carle at the Riverfront project…
{Audio: ‘’A lot of the projects involve roadway and sidewalk improvements,…drainage improvements, curb and gutter around that area to really modernize it – to make it have a neighborhood feel that’s cohesive, and really kind of tell the story about what we want development to look like in Danville when great projects like this take place in the future. It also involves providing walking paths for people from the Carle project to the downtown and throughout the neighborhood and things that will promote healthy living and enhance the neighborhood overall.’’}
Another key project expected to get underway by early summer involves realignment and improvements to the intersection of Jackson and Voorhees Streets….(shown here)
{‘’That project’s been in the works for probably ten years or so – maybe more than that even. That will be a realigned four-way stop intersection. It will involve sidewalk improvements, curb and gutter, drainage – and it should be a very nice improvement just from the pavement condition alone, but also walk-ability. We’re looking forward to get that one underway and even more-so because we got $1.25 million dollars in grant money for that, so that certainly makes it more pleasant to do these projects,’’ said Cole.}
Members of the Public Works Committee unanimously recommended the full council award a contract to allow work to begin on the Jackson and Voorhees project. The committee also recommended approval of appropriating Motor Fuel Tax Funds for the reconstruction of sections of Lafayette, Robinson and North Streets near the new Carle project.
In addition, the committee approved the following sending them to the full city council for consideration:
- Appropriating MFT Funds and an Engineering Agreement for improvements to Williams Street – from Bowman Avenue to State Street. The project runs through parts of Wards 1, 3 and 4.
- An appropriation of just under $3-million dollars in MFT funds for the maintenance of streets.
- Awarding of a bid for the construction of drainage improvements in the Countryway and Townway area.
- (This is the long abandoned Mill Street Bridge.)
- Recommended approval of a professional services agreement for various bridges. The city is planning to develop demolition plans for three bridges in hopes grant money will become available to remove them. The bridges are the old Mill Street bridge which was abandoned years ago. Also an abandoned bridge over Stoney Creek near Bunge Milling, and a pedestrian bridge over U.S. route 150 in the area of the Heights, on Danville’s west side. City Engineer Sam Cole notes it is rarely used. It earlier served a school on the north side of the highway, but the school closed.
