Some of Lubbock’s most worn and torn up roads are getting a major makeover soon.
The City of Lubbock will soon spend an estimated $2.5 million to patch up some of the city’s worst streets, particularly in the Central and Southwest Lubbock areas. The estimated amount comes from budgets from previous years.
“We’re going to go out try and fix all the bad spots going to try and seal up all the cracks and have that street repaired for a brand new surface treatment in the summer of 2017,” said Mike Gilliland, City of Lubbock Public Works Superintendent. ”
The city announced bids for the project recently. By mid March, the City Council will have had to have chosen a contractor. Once the contract is finalized, the project will need to have been completed within 200 days.
Gilliland says he and his crew are currently trying to prepare a certain number of city streets for surface treatment. The surface treatment should be laid down by summer of 2017. In the meantime, this upcoming summer, crews will be repairing rough spots in the roads, ceiling up cracks and fixing concrete so that by next summer, the streets will be ready for the final step of the process.
Patching up some of the city’s worst roads is an annual project by the City of Lubbock as a means to help maintain the city as a whole. Citizens like Maurice Stanley are glad to see more work being done to help keep roads in the best shape that they can be, but still believe there’s always room for improvement.
“Now as a tax paying person of this town that I want to see, I want to see this city taken care of,” said Stanley. “I would like to make the maintenance of our city a priority issue in the city elections which is coming up.”
“It’s an annual project and the people of Lubbock understand. They see the streets and see where the street repairing needs to happen,” said Gilliland.
Once the repairs are finished, it’s expected that these roads won’t need maintenance for another 25 to 50 years.
