Streets and sidewalks dominated a budget session with San Antonio council members asking for help to expedite projects in their districts.
A cyclist rides along South Alamo Street which is undergoing construction. In 2025, the city will spend $122 million on 1,618 street maintenance projects alone.After city staffers from three departments outlined their detailed budgets and plans for 2025, council members zeroed in on the most basic of city services.
“These ratings allow us to borrow at the lowest interest rate and the lowest cost of borrowing,” he said. Adopted in 2016, Vision Zero is a plan for eliminating all fatalities on San Antonio roadways through education, enforcement and engineering. Hernandez said it will also use 2025 budget funding of $250,000 to create a strategic plan for implementing transit-oriented development policy inBut more than half of the transportation department’s $6.1 million proposed 2025 budget will go toward implementing a bike network plan and maintaining existing facilities.
The city is proposing to spend another $21.5 million on sidewalks — making repairs and working to close the 1,416 miles of gaps between them. In 2025, public works will close 30 miles of that gap. Concerned about dangerous traffic conditions in District 7, Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito said she wants the city to expedite timelines for traffic signals, especially where there are repeated accidents, “where it is a matter of life and death.”
“What can we do to get these things to move quicker?” said Whye. “In my district, for instance, the Bulverde Road project was supposed to be done almost a year ago.”
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