{"id":293163,"date":"2014-02-28T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293163"},"modified":"2014-03-03T07:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T13:46:38","slug":"longview-mayor-pushes-citywide-sidewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293163","title":{"rendered":"Longview Mayor Pushes Citywide Sidewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=293164\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-293164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/02\/sidewalk_bench_mgn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sidewalk_bench_mgn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-293164\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Longview Mayor Jay Dean began a new push for a walker-friendly city Thursday, spring-boarding from a presentation about an ongoing pedestrian study.   That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal.  \u201cI would recommend to council that we have a discussion about the entire city of Longview \u2026 we really need to consider a citywide program \u2026 and in doing so look at a long-term project to where we can associate funding to pay,\u201d Dean said.   <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>His statement came after Brooke Droptini presented the preliminary findings of the Pedestrian Transit Access Plan to the council. Droptini is the plan manager.  The effort is an ongoing effort approved by the Longview City Council in June to determine if walkers on three major corridors can safely get to Longview Transit bus stops.  The City Council unanimously approved a $102,653 contract with Freese and Nichols for the development of the plan. Droptini works in the Fort Worth-based organization\u2019s Tyler offices. \u201cThis has been a subject about pedestrian sidewalks in our community for quite some time, and Longview is historically a community that was developed through acquiring and annexing. Some of the way properties were building the annexed area did not require sidewalks or even infrastructure that is comparable even close to what we do today,\u201d Dean said.<\/p>\n<p>Droptini presented the plan, which includes 14 projects along Fourth Street, Mobberly Avenue, and Cotton Street and repairs to existing sidewalks that would cost about $2.5 million. She also told council members about possible ways to pay for the work, including a bond, general fund leftovers, or capital improvement funds.  The plan was formed through input from residents and conversations with the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Public Transportation Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Dean suggested the city begin working on a plan to address sidewalks throughout the community, adding that much of the work would be finished after he completed his final term on the council in May 2015.  \u201cIn the next 90 days, before we even start the budget process for this year, I would like to see staff start putting together a project to address the entire city \u2026 Let\u2019s look at a city wide project where we can really take a big bite of this and get this done,\u201d he said.   He added that there could be a host of funding options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Longview Mayor Jay Dean began a new push for a walker-friendly city Thursday, spring-boarding from a presentation about an ongoing pedestrian study. That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. \u201cI would recommend to council that we have a discussion about the entire city of Longview \u2026 we really need to consider a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=293163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Mayor Pushes Citywide Sidewalks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 10:08:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293165,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293163\/revisions\/293165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}