Decatur has selected three streets for milling, patching repairing and resurfacing in 2020, while a fourth—a portion of South Columbia Drive—is tentatively scheduled to get the same treatment later in the year.
The city typically selects about one mile of streets each fiscal year for a thorough renovation. The determination’s based on, among other conditions, cracking, rutting, edge cracking, shoulder issues, poor drainage and potholes.
The three streets are West Benson St./East Benson St. from Oakview Road until it dead ends (0.46 miles), Wilton Drive from Oakland Street to Clairemont Ave. (0.27 miles) and Greenwood Avenue from East College Avenue until it dead ends (0.35 miles).
The approved budget is $962,000, with the city paying $764,300 and another $197,700 coming from the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant Program.
Assistant City Manager David Junger anticipates that work should begin in April at the earliest.
The city is also recommending to GDOT that South Columbia Drive, from East College to the city limits (0.98 miles), get included in 2020 LMIG program. Total cost estimate is $1,024,742 with the city’s share estimated at $803,172 and the remaining $221,569 coming from the LMIG.
The first three streets come out of the city’s 2019 fiscal year budget, while Columbia comes out of FY 2020.
Junger said the Columbia project could begin later in 2020 or early in 2021. The timetable depends on several other projects slated for this portion of South Columbia in 2020, including a new split-phase traffic signal at Shadowmoor Drive and Talley Street that’s close to completion.
Also planned is a 10-foot wide multi-use path on Columbia’s east side, dedicated left-hand turn lanes on the north and south side of Columbia turning onto Talley and Shadowmoor respectively, and the narrowing Columbia, from Talley to Derrydown Way, from two 14-foot wide lanes to two 11½ -feet wide lanes.
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