Paving Plan Set

City Crews Expect to Complete 12 Miles of Streets in 2013

Steve Jones, from left, Alford Main, Josh Myers, John Ragsdale and Alfred DeRoche, Fayetteville Transportation Division workers, work Wednesday while completing a paving project at Holly Street and North Oakland Avenue.
Steve Jones, from left, Alford Main, Josh Myers, John Ragsdale and Alfred DeRoche, Fayetteville Transportation Division workers, work Wednesday while completing a paving project at Holly Street and North Oakland Avenue.

— Chances are the city Transportation Division will be coming to a street near you in 2013.

Workers plan to pave or reseal nearly 12 miles of roads.

At A Glance

The following Fayetteville streets are set to be paved or sealed in 2013:

Ward 1

-Cline Avenue: Cato Springs Road to dead end

-Clover Drive: Eden Circle to Cato Springs Road

-Eden Circle: Cul de sac to Clover Drive

-Fairway Lane: College Avenue to Country Club Drive

-Missouri Way: Oklahoma Way to Dogwood Lane

-Morningside Drive: Huntsville Road to 15th Street

-Selle Avenue: Emma Avenue to Cato Springs Road

-Summit Avenue: Dickson Street to Center Street

-Texas Way: Oklahoma Way to Skyline Drive

-11th Street: School Avenue to Dunn Avenue

Total: 2.3 miles

Ward 2

-Center Street: School Avenue to 150 feet east

-Davidson Street: Park Avenue to College Avenue

-Davidson Street: College Avenue to Willow Avenue

-Gregg Avenue: Prospect Street to North Street

-Leverett Avenue: Maple Street to Cleveland Street

-Louise Street: Park Avenue to dead end

-Lynn’s Place: Deane Street to cul de sac

-South Street: West Avenue to Archibald Yell Boulevard

-Forest Avenue: Louise Street to Lafayette Street

-Sheridan Avenue: Elm Street to Overcrest Street

-Mount Nord Street: Forest Avenue to Mock Avenue

Total: 1.6 miles

Ward 3

-Millsap Road: North Hills Boulevard to College Avenue

-Township Street: Old Wire Road to Crossover Road

-McKee Circle: Appleby Road to cul de sac

-Warwick Way: Oak Bailey Drive to dead end

-Market Avenue*: Parking lot to Rolling Hills Drive

-Masonic Drive*: Nottingham Court to cul de sac

-Old Missouri Road*: Honeysuckle Lane to Joyce Boulevard

-Oxford Place*: Summerhill Drive to cul de sac

-Wimbledon Place*: Summerhill Drive to cul de sac

-Windsor Place*: Summerhill Drive to cul de sac

-Ash Street*: Old Wire Road to dead end

-Samantha Avenue*: Ash Street to dead end

Total: 2.7 miles

Ward 4

-Ed Moore Lane: Wedington Drive to dead end

-Foster Lane: Double Springs Road to dead end

-Lancelot Avenue: Wedington Drive to cul de sac

-Sang Avenue: Cleveland Street to Wedington Drive

-Nicole Lane: Double Springs Road to dead end

-Reed Road: 85th Street to dead end

-Venus Street: Lewis Avenue to Eastern Avenue

-Wilmoth Road: Reed Road to dead end

-Mica Street*: Granite Avenue to cul de sac

-Granite Avenue*: Mica Street to Shale Street

-Shale Street*: Granite Avenue to Flint Avenue

-Flint Avenue*: Shale Street to Mica Street

-Vassar Street*: Salem Road to cul de sac

-Cornell Street*: Dartmouth Avenue to Salem Road

-Dartmouth Avenue*: Yale Street to Cornell Street

-Princeton Street*: Dartmouth Avenue to Salem Road

-Yale Street*: Salem Road to cul de sac

-Harvard Street*: Buckeye Street to Salem Road

-Buckeye Street*: Harvard Street to Salem Road

-Essex Drive*: Albany Lane to Salem Road

-Albany Lane*: La Salle Drive to Essex Drive

-Radcliffe Avenue*: La Salle Drive to Fairfax Street

-Fairfax Street*: Radcliffe Avenue to Salem Road

-Salem Road*: Dead end to Wedington Drive

-Timberline Drive*: Oakfield Street to Salem Road

-Oakfield Street*: Timberline Drive to Timbercrest Avenue

-Timbercrest Avenue*: Oakfield Street to Mulberry Street

-Mulberry Street*: Greenleaf Drive to Timbercrest Avenue

-Greenleaf Drive*: Anne Street to Mulberry Street

-Anne Street*: Timbercrest Drive to Timberline Drive

-Weatherwood Court*: Anne Street to cul de sac

-Woodfield Way*: Oakfield Street to Timberline Drive

-Timber Ridge Court*: Timberline Drive to cul de sac

Total: 5.3 miles

Grand Total: 11.9 miles

  • Streets receiving microseal

Source: City Of Fayetteville

Paving projects include a half-mile stretch of Millsap Road, from the city’s first modern roundabout in front of Washington Regional Medical Center to College Avenue; Sang Avenue from Cleveland Street to Wedington Drive; and Morningside Drive in southeast Fayetteville. Several dirt and gravel roads in recently annexed neighborhoods near Double Springs Road in west Fayetteville will be paved.

“We’re trying to add two to three of those each year based on the number of homes along them,” said Terry Gulley, Transportation Services director.

The city also plans to use a new technique for preserving pavement. A sealant, called microseal, will be used to bind asphalt on streets that are in fairly good condition. Gulley said streets can be resurfaced every six to nine years using microseal at about 40 percent of the cost of traditional milling and overlay, which is generally required every 15 years.

If the city can get at least two applications of microseal on a given street, “that’s where our savings start to come in,” Gulley said.

The sealant most likely will be used on newer streets rather than ones that are cracked, pothole ridden and in need of serious repair. The streets receiving microseal next year are in clusters, so the city’s contractor doesn’t have to travel far between projects and because the streets were built at the same time and have the same level of degradation.

The City Council approved a $72,000 contract with Vance Brothers of Kansas City, Mo., for eight microseal projects in Ward 3, including several streets in the Summerhill subdivision. The council has yet to bid another three miles of microseal near Bryce Davis Park in west Fayetteville.

Next year’s paving projects are budgeted to cost $1.8 million.

The 12 miles planned for 2013 is slightly less than this year. Joey Smith, senior field operations supervisor for the Transportation Division, said he expects to have repaved 13 miles of streets by the end of this year. Those figures are up sharply from 2009, 2010 and 2011, however, when 8.2 miles, 9.5 miles and 5.5 miles of street were paved, respectively.

Transportation crews were pulled off usual duties during the first quarter of 2009 to clean up after a devastating ice storm. Crews turned much of their attention to Block Avenue improvements in 2010, and the City Council assigned three, six-person street crews to focus on drainage work for several months following heavy flooding last spring.

The Transportation Division is responsible for about 375 of the 450 miles of roadways within the city limits, Gulley said. The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department is responsible for maintaining state highways, such as College Avenue, Mission Boulevard, Huntsville Road and Wedington Avenue.

Crews also plan to repair or lay several miles of sidewalks in 2013.

Using roughly $500,000 carried over from 2012 and $115,000 in the 2013 capital improvement budget, city officials had planned to spend $615,000 on sidewalks. Mayor Lioneld Jordan now wants to increase that to $1.3 million: a level commensurate with what’s planned for trail construction. The additional money could come from a half-cent statewide sales tax voters approved in November.

Don Marr, Jordan’s chief of staff, said Tuesday the mayor plans to focus on sidewalks leading to trails and in hilly areas that have been difficult to get to in prior years.

The council’s Street Committee is scheduled to review the sidewalk plan Jan. 29. The full council likely will approve the final street and sidewalk improvement list in February.

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