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Town staff reports big change: DOT to pick up multi-use path cost; council to cover pole/feature betterments
Summary
Staff outlined negotiated reductions in town betterment costs for the Old Monroe complete-streets project after discussions with NCDOT: DOT will cover the 10-foot multi-use path, lowering the town's sidewalk share to an estimated $55,000, but the town is still being asked to fund metal powder-coated signal poles and cosmetic features estimated in the low hundreds of thousands.
Town staff gave a detailed update on the Old Monroe/Indian Trail Road complete-streets project, describing negotiations with the North Carolina Department of Transportation that materially changed the town’s cost exposure for pedestrian infrastructure. The presentation covered two phases of the corridor project (BA and BB), proposed betterments and their previous estimates, and staff’s push to secure a more favorable funding split.
Staff said that earlier estimates assigned the town substantial…
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