A recent survey of Taylor’s streets showed a decrease in the number of failing roads, and City Council recently gave approval for improving more through the Leveling Up program.
“We have 57 percent of our streets in fair, satisfactory or good ranking. That’s a lot better than we had four years ago. We want to continue that trend in minimizing the failed, serious or very poor,” Jacob Walker of HDR Engineering told the council on Thursday.
Walker was discussing the results of a survey conducted by Applied Research Associates. The firm was hired in October to evaluate every city road in Taylor, a total of 301 lane miles.
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