UP Plans Summertime Street Improvements
While the kids get a summer holiday from school, the city of University Park will get to work maintaining and improving city streets.
The University Park City Council approved contracts for asphalt replacement during an April 1 meeting. The summertime work will occur on slightly more than 12 miles of city streets.
The proposed costs for mill and overlay, or the removal of existing pavement and installation of new asphalt, totaled a little more than $3.8 million, a figure that included street sweeping. Historically, actual costs have been around 70 percent of estimates, director of public works Keegan Littrell told the council.
The costs are eligible for reimbursement from Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority under its transit-related improvement program, according to an agenda memo.
The city does a pavement analysis biannually. It uses the results to select streets in need of new asphalt for the mill and overlay program, Littrell said.
