William McPherson – West Frankfort Gazette Photo
WEST FRANKFORT, IL – (William McPherson – West Frankfort Gazette. Please click on link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
For two weeks in a row, the West Frankfort City Council has approved moving forward with some long overdue sidewalk projects to fix some of the city’s crumbling walkways.
The council approved city engineers Brown and Roberts to prepare plans to repair a sidewalk on South Grand and East Main Street. Jordan said the process will involve removal of a tree on city property. City Engineer Mike Roberts said the project would be quite an involved process due to the rundown condition it is in.
Street Commissioner Tara Fasol-Chambers added, “The issue is that the sidewalk is in horrible shape, and it needs replaced, but anytime we replace a sidewalk we have to put it back ADA compliant.” Chambers said it was also a tricky location being right on top of the hill at Grand Street, making it a more involved task than just grading in a sidewalk. Chambers said the repairs were necessary as well because of that area being a really high-traffic location seeing lots of foot traffic every single day.
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