A rough stretch of a north Piedmont road is becoming a lot smoother.
N.W. 234/Moffat Road had deteriorated badly, and residents had complained frequently, said City Councilman Jonathan Hisey, Ward IV.
“There have been a lot of complaints about it out there. I think it is better now,” Hisey said. Hisey said crews had completed about a mile of the work by Sunday night, June 6.
The work is being done from about a half of a mile west of Cemetery Road to Cimarron Road, for a total of 2.5 miles.
Through an interlocal agreement between Canadian County and the City of Piedmont, the cost is $67,500 for asphalt millings that are ground and spread by a road-grader.
“It definetly improves that stretch of road,” Hisey said.
The road was previously named Bassett Street.
The roadway was previously surfaced with chip and seal, Hisey said. But the deterioration made it too difficult to continue to patch potholes. People had been driving on the shoulder to avoid the road, Hisey said.
“It was too difficult to patch properly,” Hisey said.
Work is expected to wrap up in the coming days.
Although voters overwhelmingly rejected a recent proposition to tax residents $28 a month on utility bills to generate funds for road improvements, Piedmont Road was resurfaced at the end of last year.
Work has been approved for N.W. 164/Washington Avenue between Cemetery Road and Frisco Road, and on Frisco Road for a mile from N.W. 178/Edmond Road, to N.W. 192/ Arrowhead Road.
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