More than $40 million in grant funding could bring two new multi-modal bridges to Buckeye, creating a more connected downtown. Both grants are offered through the U.S. Department of Transportation's Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grand program.
The grant funding would cover a little more than half of the total cost of $83 million.
The bridges would "reconnect the downtown area to employment and other daily essentials by means of motor vehicles, pedestrian walking, bicycling and rolling," according to the city. The construction also aims to "reduce environmental harm, reduce drive times, improve air quality and improve community accessibility and safety."
Grant No. 1: Rooks Road
Read more from the city HERE.
Grant No. 2: Watson Road
Read more from the city HERE.
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What is the purpose of only having an ADA compliant bridge when we actually need Watson road itself running all the way through to MC85? This makes no sense to think that people are going to use their wheelchairs or whatever to drive across and come up a road to basically nothing.There’s no shopping centers. There’s nothing there other than the Ross Distribution center and a housing community and Walmart Distribution center. And there is nothing for residents in that housing community to go down across the ADA bridge towards MC85, because it doesn’t offer anything of substantial need either.Buckeye worked so hard to get city status.But yet they still keep doing things on a small town scale. They need to widen Watson road all the way from Lower Buckeye, all the way down to MC85. Get infrastructure there, other than housing developments. We need commercial development as well. And they also need to figure out how to revitalize MC85, in a way that would make it worthwhile for people going down to that area..