The City of Peoria needs to spend about 15-times more money than what’s budgeted just to maintain it’s current road conditions. That was the message from a new road study presented to the City Council last night. The study says Peoria needs to spend $9.4 million to maintain road conditions each year. City manager Patrick Urich says the city only has $600,000 budgeted this year:
“I think it’s definitely a sobering assessment of what it’s going to take to put us back just on a level playing field in terms of the condition of our roads. So yes, it’s challenge.”
Urich says the road study can help the city plan for multi-year spending to slowly improve the overall quality of city streets. To that end, some city council members voted against the construction of a roundabout at Allen and Alta Roads next year. But the council approved the measure by an eight-to-three vote.