Neighborhood Streets

Funds from the Hyatt sale are sufficient to improve many of the City’s worst residential streets; but by no means all of them. Furthermore, in order to maximize reach, the effort is focused on neighborhood asphalt streets, in particular. However, other poor condition residential streets will continue to be improved via the City’s regular budget.

Is your street slated for other improvements?

Depending on pavement conditions, repairs will be accomplished in either two or three phases. On individual streets, the first, or preparatory phase of construction can last up to about two weeks. While intermittent traffic stoppages may be required during the initial phase of construction, streets generally remain open to traffic. The final phase (or phases) typically occurs in late summer or early fall, which can be up to several months after the initial phase is complete. During the final phase, which takes just one day to complete, streets are closed for about 8 hours.

The City is striving to maximize returns on these and other investments. By using the two-step process (or mitigation, as we like to call it) the City will ultimately improve more than 200 lane-miles of poor condition neighborhood streets. If the City had instead elected to use the same funds towards more expensive reconstruction, the vast majority (about 160) of those lane-miles would have gone completely untouched.

Absolutely! Please just dial WICHITA (942-4482) and let us know the location. You may also alert us via this website, or by using the Wichita Report mobile app.