Following delays, residents of a North Edinburg subdivision will finally have paved streets again.
Street pavings at the Lull Subdivision had begun and are expected to be completed by Christmas, Edinburg city officials announced Thursday during a meeting with residents.
The subdivision has been the subject of a reconstruction project that broke ground in September 2021. However, the project faced multiple delays to the frustration of many residents there.
But in an effort to give the community an update on the ongoing work, elected officials and city staff held a meeting with residents Thursday evening.
“Right now we’re doing all the east and west streets with the exception of Rivera and Delgado — we have to put in a couple of inlets that we need to adjust before they can get started,” Reyna said of the street pavings.
“For this weekend, we’re hoping tomorrow that we can start paving Flores Street all the way to Montecristo and hopefully start on Salinas,” he continued. “Hopefully they can try to get halfway down Salinas and then continue on Monday.”
The following week, crews will work on two other streets — Rodriguez and Tagle — which they hope to complete before Dec. 23.
“So hopefully we can continue paving the rest of the streets, north and south,” Reyna said. “The contractor is planning to finish by Friday the 23rd with the final paving of all the streets and the paving itself will be complete before Christmas as we promised.”
Additional work to be completed includes work on sidewalks and driveways which they hope to finish by the end of January.
Next week, they will also begin installing a new mailbox at each residence.
After a resident expressed concern over speeding in the area, Reyna assured the city will also be installing speed humps throughout the subdivision after the streets are paved. The city is currently conducting a study on how many speed humps will be needed.
The reconstruction is a $4.3 million project of which $3.5 million is being funded by the city, according to the city’s capital projects dashboard.
It’s been many years in the making and follows comments from residents during city council meetings during which they urged the city to fix their streets.
In March, the city posted a project update on social media.
It was then that Director of Engineering Mardoqueo Hinojosa said all of their projects had been delayed due to service lines.
“Materials having to do with copper have been delayed so, what we had to do on this project is we adjusted and we’re going with an alternate material — from copper to pvc — which is also permitted by our city,” Mardoqueo said.
He said the change would allow them to expedite the arrival of the materials.
At that time, the project was expected to be completed late November or early December. Now, the project is scheduled for completion on Jan. 14.
