Driving on certain stretches of the most traveled streets in Peoria can be an exercise in using the brakes for some new bumps in the pavement.
Two years ago the city elected to place more funding toward helping take care of a large backlog of road maintenance. Those projects are scheduled but the city’s sales tax receipts continue to lag as more people shop online. That’s a problem when it comes to finding additional money for new road repairs.
Peoria Public Works Director Scott Reeise says the road crews will finish the maintenance they had planned for summer in about two weeks. He says then they’ll do all they can to tackle the worst of the new pop-up spots. “For those, we’ll document them,” he said. “After we get our planned work done then we start trying to decipher what are the worst that we can squeeze in, in the amount of time we have available.”
The Public Works Director says in the meantime, slowing down will help the reduce the impact to your car. But he says the more complaints they get on a road the higher it goes up on the priority list.
He says people can pull over, take a picture of the road issue and sending via the Peoria Cares App. People can also call 494-CARE.