"The stretch that we live on has never been repaired as long as we have lived here,” says Karen Workman, a longtime resident of Holly Road.
Potholes, cracks, chunks of asphalt, all plaguing several stretches of Cadillac neighborhoods.
Help is on the way.
Last week, the Cadillac City Council approved a bid of more than $373,000 for a construction company to start not just filling potholes, but ripping them up to start from scratch.
And this project is solely focusing on Holly Road and Ford Street…for now.
Fox 32’s Cody Boyer spoke with the City Director of Public Works and people who have endured the choppy roads for years and has more details.
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“It’s been band-aided and patched many, many, many times and we really need something completely new here,” Workman says.
Holly Road and Ford Street in Cadillac aren’t all bad…
But where the potholes are, they run deep.
“The stretch that we live on has never been repaired as long as we have lived here for 33 years,” Workman says.
Since Karen and her husband have lived along Holly, they’ve seen it patched once, but never fully fixed.
“The people on the west side of our community quite often use holly road to get into town, so it’s more than just the local traffic that uses it,” Workman says.
Kristin Hayes, down the road, has a gravel spot at the end of her driveway after a water main break months ago.
She watches people dodge it…
…or plow right through it every day.
“My daughter is learning how to ride a bike so it’ll be nice when the road is a little bit smoother,” Hayes says. “I took her out a couple times last year and it was pretty bumpy for a 4, 5 year old."
Holly Road is one of the two, so far, that are slated to get work done.
This road, including all of its potholes, hasn’t been touched in around 40 years.
“One of the streets, Holly Road, hasn’t had any work done on it in the last 40 years so that’s way beyond its lifespan,” says Bruce DeWitt, Cadillac Director of Public Works and Engineering.
DeWitt says it’s dire to give these streets the attention they need.
“These are in what we call a major state of repair here,” DeWitt says. “They are ranked way at the bottom of our street system so these are the ones that are getting the attention now."
The asphalt is slated to be ground up in May — complete sometime in June.
“I figured they would get to it eventually,” Hayes says. “It’ll be nice when the rocks kind of aren’t going into our lawn anymore."
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