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Jun. 13—In a number of years, it is going to be safer to stroll alongside extra of the Nice Avenue hall in Fairfield.
Metropolis Council gave the OK for town supervisor to contract with Selection One Engineering to design what’s being referred to as the Nice Avenue multi-use path, a connection of practically 1.3 miles from Wessel Drive to Hunter Highway offering walkable entry from Harbin Park to Village Inexperienced and Fairfield’s city middle.
“This path would create a path to be accessed immediately by a substantial portion of town’s residential inhabitants with out driving, join a path to the city middle, and permit for future enlargement to different sections of town,” mentioned Public Works Director Ben Mann.
A grant for this undertaking was acquired from the Ohio Kentucky Indiana Regional Council of Governments and Mann mentioned the trail building is anticipated to occur in 2025 or 2026. The OKI grant funding would pay about 70% of the undertaking’s building price, or practically $1.74 million. The entire price is almost $2.5 million, and the engineering and right-of-way acquisition prices for the undertaking can be utterly footed by Fairfield.
The multi-use path aligns with town’s lively transportation plan often called Fairfield Connects.
Pedestrians can, now and again, be seen strolling alongside this stretch of Nice Avenue’s slim shoulder or within the grass and swales that run parallel to the street, which can also be U.S. 127. Greater than 20,500 vehicles journey day by day alongside this part of Nice Avenue.
In accordance with the Fairfield Connects plan, multi-use paths give equal precedence to bike riders and pedestrians and are sometimes put in in lieu of sidewalk and on-road bike lanes.
This undertaking can be performed in partnership with a street undertaking that may reconfigure this stretch of Nice Avenue. The street undertaking is anticipated to occur in 2029 on the earliest, Mann mentioned. When the reconfiguration occurs, it can present 12-foot north and south by means of lanes and a 10-foot middle lane. The multi-use path is anticipated to be 11 ft, separated from the street by a mix of grass and paved shoulder or curb. Mann mentioned the width of that separation will differ.
Finally, the trail is anticipated to increase on both facet of this part of the Nice Avenue multi-use path undertaking. Metropolis plans present a 3,400-foot stretch of path from Hunter Highway south to town’s border with Hamilton County. Moreover, plans present a 5,500-foot path from Wessel Drive that leads west to the Nice Miami River Path by means of Village Inexperienced earlier than connecting with the Nilles Highway/River Highway hall.
