Residents on State Street in Culver were sent a letter to gather opinions on how they would like the town to proceed with road repairs.
Town Manager Jonathan Leist said the street is a bricked street and is in pretty poor condition. The cost to rebrick the street is about $560,000 which far exceeds the town’s paving budget for a few years, while restructuring the street with asphalt is more cost effective at $69,000.
Leist told the Culver Town Council members this week that he surveyed the residents in the area and only received a few responses. The majority of the residents would like the street to be repaved with asphalt while only a few would like to keep the street with bricks.
The council members thought about keeping a small strip of bricks on either end of the road as crosswalks as designed in other areas of town and paving the rest of the road. If the street is paved, they also talked about keeping the old bricks and offering them to homeowners for memorabilia, or selling them to other municipalities for use on brick roads. No decisions were made.
State Street is proposed as one of the streets for repair in the town’s Community Crossings requests. Other projects include drainage work on South Main and Davis Street and repaving projects on Cass Street from Slate Street to Lake Street, Clymax from Jefferson to Marmont, Plymouth from Mill to Obispo, West Shore Street from South Main to Lincoln which will be part of the drainage project, Washington Street from Ohio Street to east terminus, State Street from College Street to Lake Shore Drive, and Obispo from Batabano to Wabash Streets.
