The Greenville Town Council will request financial assistance from Floyd County for a road-widening project that will cost about $20,000.
Most of the work has already been done, as the town borrowed against 2010 road improvement money in order to improve Cross Street — the route that leads school buses and parents to Greenville Elementary School.
“We did it for the safety of our children,” council President Talbotte Richardson said.
The road was extremely narrow and the thicket surrounding it made visibility a problem, he added. Trees and bushes have been cut down, the ditches scaled and new catch basins installed. Cross Street also has been widened by 5 feet.
Although there was doubt in some corners the work could be completed before school starts back next week, Richardson said the project is 95 percent complete after just a month of work.
“We got a letter from the school telling us how proud they were,” he said.
Greenville has already used its local roads and streets stipend for 2009, and only expects around $18,000 for 2010. Because of the gap, Richardson is hopeful the county will pay for some, if not all, of the project.
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