\t\t\t\tKeller City Council approved a change order for the Mount Gilead and Roanoke Road hike and bike trail connector at a regular meeting Oct. 21.<\/p>\n
The change order amends a contract with Decatur-based Tejas Cutters LLC by adding $136,075.85, according to city documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n What\u2019s new<\/p>\n The end of Mt. Gilead\u2019s trail will connect to Overton Ridge Park with a 750-foot-long, 6-foot-wide sidewalk, according to city documents. The addition will be funded through the Parks Capital Improvement Project fund with funding provided by the Keller Development Corporation fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rachel Reynolds, Keller\u2019s communication and public engagement manager, said the total cost of the project is now $703,045.07. She said it\u2019s estimated for completion in June 2026.<\/p>\n The background<\/p>\n The city broke ground for the 0.35 mile expansion in August<\/a> and its original bid for construction was approved in June<\/a>. A contract to design the trail was first approved in October 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n The trail will connect Woodborough Lane to Roanoke Road, according to city documents.<\/p>\n “><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keller City Council approved a change order for the Mount Gilead and Roanoke Road hike and bike trail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,14251,1234,14256,14250,14249,14255,14254,14252,14253],"class_list":["post-18413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-hike-and-bike-trails","tag-keller","tag-keller-city-council","tag-keller-construction","tag-mount-gilead-road","tag-parks-keller","tag-places-to-walk-keller","tag-trails-in-keller","tag-trails-near-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}