Decatur to pave, repair three city streets

Decatur’s commission has approved the milling, repairing and paving of three city streets, which has become an annual project in recent years. Total cost this year is $1.638,047.03, with $197.700 coming from a Georgia Department of Transportation Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant.

The city typically does a complete overhaul on about one mile’s worth of streets each year. This year’s work, which should commence in the next few weeks, totals 1.08 miles and includes:

East Benson St/West Benson St—from Oakview Road to its dead end.

Wilton Drive—from Clairemont Avenue to Oakland Street.

Greenwood Avenue—from West College Avenue to its dead end.

At the same time the city will begin on the Parkwood Neighborhood Traffic Calming Plan. This work includes 15 new speed tables (11 are replacements and four totally new) on East and West Parkwood Road, Upland Road and Parkwood Lane.

It also includes six landscape medians or raised concrete medians (either 8 or 10 feet in width) at various entrances to the neighborhood, along with a tighter, reduced radius and narrower turn lanes at the East Lake/Parkwood intersection.

Estimated cost is $250,000 and will come out of that total project budget of $1.6 million.

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