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Promise made is a promise kept: city
City of Cranbrook Mayor Lee Pratt and city staff stopped by to inspect the new pavement installed on Kootenay Street North recently as the city’s 2015 repaving program continues.
The paving of Kootenay Street North, Cranbrook Street, 2A Street/26th Avenue and the Airport Access Road is now complete. The paving of 4th Street South to be completed sometime next week. The milling machine will be back in town the first or second week of July to start the second half of the program.
The state of the roads across the municipality was a key issue of many campaign platforms of those on council. As such, council earlier this year directed staff to identify roads that could be simply repaved, in order to maximize the amount of paving that could occur as part of the 2015 Capital Roads program.
“Both council and I promised the citizens of Cranbrook we would do more roadwork this year and we are pleased to see this being accomplished,” said Mayor Pratt.
The roadwork consists of removal of the asphalt, reshaping of the road bed to ensure better water runoff and finally repaving the street. No underground infrastructure work (water lines, sewer lines, storm sewer system) is planned.
“We now have an Integrated Asset Management Plan which identifies the condition of all roads and the infrastructure beneath them,” Pratt noted. “With this information we are able to make an educated assessment of the life expectancy of all of these assets. This will help us prioritize which roads and water and sewer lines should be replaced first. Council and staff are working on solutions to complete as much of this as we can each year while focusing on spending taxpayer dollars wisely.”
Above photo: Mayor Lee Pratt (right) with chief administrative officer Wayne Staudt (centre) and Curtis Penson, Municipal Engineer (left) stand on a recently repaved section of Kootenay Street North in Cranbrook, one of many streets slated for repaving in 2015. This section of Kootenay Street North cost $216,653.00 and still needs shoulders put in to complete the project. Photo credit: City of Cranbrook.
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