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| Sidewalks get facelift |
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| Written by Shelley Gulley | |
| Wednesday, 07 July 2010 | |
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By: Shelley Gulley While sidewalks are simply a paved path along the road used for safe pedestrian travel, many concerns regarding the renovation of sidewalks in Fleming County have been raised. The sidewalks in downtown Flemingsburg have been under different phases of renovations for almost six or seven years now, according to Mayor Louie Flannery. The causes of the renovations are not only to help beautify Flemingsburg, but to benefit residents of this county and sometimes fix waterlines that need replaced underneath of sidewalks. Phase one of the renovations took place on Court House hill, around 2003 or 2004, and resulted in the current pavers being placed there. Phase two consisted of work on South Main Cross, and sometime after phase two was complete, Flannery said, “the phases were dropped and we just continued to work on improving our county.” Flannery has many plans for the sidewalks as they continue to undergo construction. “When a waterline underneath of a sidewalk must be replaced the sidewalk above the line gets demolished,” he said. “On the upper end of town, we are planning to replace a waterline underneath of the sidewalk, as we renovate the sidewalk we plan to make part concrete and part pavers. Over top of waterlines we will begin to use only pavers, in case of a water leak, because we can take them up without tearing up the entire sidewalk.” Many proposals are coming in to do upgrades on sidewalks that have deteriorated around town. Deteriorated sidewalks include the ones on the North West Side of Electric Avenue to Pumphrey Avenue, along with the sidewalk up the hill beside The Flemingsburg Gazette office. The plan is to turn them from old to new. “We have a lot of grant money to work with, and we’re going to try to do as many improvements as we can with the money we have,” Flannery said, “It should take a couple months to get this all done, but hopefully we’ll have it all done this summer.” Along with sidewalk reconstruction Flannery mentioned beautification of the parking lot where the pool hall used to stand. The parking lot will be beautified with a fence, shrubbery, and will provide free parking accessible to downtown. The renovations and side walk reconstruction is intended to not only benefit Fleming County residents by making it safer to get outside but to beautify our downtown area. After six plus years of construction, the end is near. The patience of Fleming County citizens will pay off with an even more beautiful down town area. |
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