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O'Fallon staff urges focus on maintaining existing paths as costs climb for new projects
Summary
At a Sept. 25 workshop, O'Fallon staff outlined the city's path and sidewalk inventory, estimated replacement costs and funding constraints; councilmembers prioritized maintenance, resident requests and curb ramps over new large projects.
City staff asked the O'Fallon City Council on Sept. 25 to prioritize maintenance of the city’s existing sidewalks, paths and curb ramps after presenting a multi-year inventory and cost estimates for building and keeping the network in working order.
Chris Clerks, capital improvements manager, told councilmembers the city has roughly 22 miles of bike route, 14 miles of multi-use path, about 4.5 miles of shared-use path and a curb-ramp inventory exceeding 6,000 units. He said the combined replacement and compliance estimate for those path assets is in the hundreds of millions, noting a $147,000,000 rough…
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