Work is now scheduled for next year to improve some major streets and intersections in Moline. Tuesday night, aldermen approved the latest update to the city's five year capital improvement program.
City engineer, Scott Hinton, says the plan calls for spending 66 million dollars through 2020, including 15.8 million just next year.
Next year, federal dollars will help re-surface some busy streets, including 16th Street on the west side of Southpark Mall, River Drive near the WIU campus, and nearly 20 blocks of 12th Avenue, from 34th Street almost to East Moline.
Hinton says tentative plans call for replacing the bridge to Sylvan Island in two years - it had to be closed because it was no longer safe.
The state grant will pay 80 per cent of the cost, and Moline will have to spend about 250,000 dollars.
Hinton emphasizes the projects for next year (2016) are locked in, but plans for the following four years could change as priorities, needs, and funding change.
