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Alley improvement blitz to start later this month
04/06/2014 8:30 AM by John M
The April 3-5 issue of the Richmond Free Press has word on a city initiative to improve the condition of 1,200 alleys in the city over the next 3 months.
How much can $500 do for an alley?
Desperately needed. We have been begging the City for over a year to fix our alley–it has craters that make it like driving on the Moon. If you read the full article, you learn that the City owns five graders for alley maintenance, but only one works. How is this acceptable? Only 6 of the 28 positions for alley repair are filled? Why?
This is the nuts and bolts of running a local government and the City needs to do a better job of it in some areas like these.
@1…possibly a lot. In the article, Mr Jackson says he needs $1.2 million to do 200 miles of alley maintenance a year. So that’s $6,000 a mile. Figuring a mile is 10 blocks, that puts one block of alley repair at about $600 on average. Color me skeptical that those numbers are realistic–seems low to me–but I defer to him in the end as he should know more about it than I do.
Timing is everything as Church Hill Association is scheduling an Alley Rally Sat 21st of June 14. CHA will be asking for volunteers for this clean-up (as the City provides the trucks as we provide the manpower).
While this is not repair of the alleys – it is cleaning them up of trash and debris – which helps make them more usable, nicer and safer.
More to come on the Alley Rally … see you there.
I really like the direction that CHA has been taking lately with the neighborhood walk (sadly I wasn’t able to attend but hope they’ll do more of these) and now this Alley Rally.
It’s good to see CHA using their clout on more stuff that benefits all of us. Kudos to Geoff Cooper for starting the transformation of CHA from pearl-clutching busybodies whining club to a force for genuine good. I hope they’ll be able to get the city to start paying attention to our problems the way they do when the Fan has issues.