\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdditional sidewalk repair within West University Place will advance with an estimated project start date in the first quarter of the new year, after City Council approved a two-year extension with the same contractors currently working on repairs.<\/p>\n
The improvements are estimated for completion in 2027.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
\u201cNearly every home and business in West U has access to a sidewalk,\u201d Mayor Susan Sample said in a Dec. 9 news release. \u201cThe council is proud to lead a pedestrian-friendly city, and it has been our priority to continue making investments that will ensure West U\u2019s sidewalks remain safe and accessible for all.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the Dec. 8 meeting<\/a>, West University Place City Council approved the $453,772 budget amendment for a total of $800,000 to Queens Constructors LLC, which brings West U to a funding commitment of more than $1 million total for sidewalk repairs, according to the news release.<\/p>\n “This will let us address all the open requests we have for sidewalk and all the ones we know about, and still give us about $50,000 in cushion for things that come up,” Public Works Director Michael Leech said.<\/p>\n What happened?<\/p>\n While the initial sidewalks improvement program that came from the city\u2019s Sidewalk Master Plan in 2024<\/a> was set for a five-year phased project, several factors contributed to the project extension, according to the agenda documents, which included:<\/p>\n Market conditionsInflationAdditional sidewalk failures caused by soil conditionsAged treesMore than 230 sidewalk repairs are currently under request<\/a> by the city\u2019s Public Works Department\u2014a capacity that exceeds the city\u2019s ability to handle with in-house staff, according to the department.<\/p>\n The bigger picture<\/p>\n Before the start of the METRO sidewalk repair project<\/a> that began at the beginning of the year, public works officials saw more than 400 sidewalk repair requests. The METRO project<\/a> is at 75% completion, public works officials said, and is estimated for completion \u201cshortly after the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n West U officials were awarded a $400,000 grant in partnership with METRO in August 2024 to replace approximately 2,000 square feet of sidewalk to enhance pedestrian access to public transit and amenities.<\/p>\n “><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional sidewalk repair within West University Place will advance with an estimated project start date in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,40394,40392,40395,39977,40393,40391,10105],"class_list":["post-83843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-metro-sidewalk-repairs","tag-sidewalk-repairs","tag-west-u-city-council","tag-west-u-news","tag-west-u-sidewalks","tag-west-university-budget","tag-west-university-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843","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=83843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}