MAINTENANCE The physical condition of walking facilities is a key aspect that will influence an individual’s choice to walk. Continuing a maintenance management plan will be useful in ensuring that responsibility is assigned appropriately and that regular maintenance is done. The following recommendations provide a menu of considerations that can help guide continued facility maintenance in Fuquay-Varina. Pedestrian facilities should be viewed and maintained as a public resource, serving generations to come. The following guiding principles will help assure the preservation of a first class system: • Good maintenance begins with sound planning and design. • Promote and maintain a quality outdoor recreation and transportation experience. • Develop a management plan that is reviewed and updated annually with tasks, operational policies, standards, and routine and remedial maintenance goals. • Maintain quality control and conduct regular inspections. • Include field crews, police and fire/rescue personnel in both the design review and on- going management process. • Maintain an effective, responsive public feedback system and promote public participation. • Be a good neighbor to adjacent properties. • Operate a cost-effective program with sustainable funding sources. Facility Repair or Replacement All facilities will require repair or replacement at one time or another. The time between observation and repair/replacement will depend on whether the needed repair is deemed a hazard, to what degree the needed repair will affect the safety of the user, and whether the needed repair can be performed by an in-house maintenance crew or if it is so extensive that the needed repair must be done by outside entities or replaced completely.
Longevity of Facilities » Mulch
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Granular Stone
Asphalt Concrete Boardwalk
Appendix A: Design Resources A.
Bridge/Underpass 100+ years
Range of Trail Maintenance Costs Reported annual maintenance costs from cit- ies and regions for greenways range widely, from just $500/mile to over $15,000/mile. The Town of Cary, NC uses $6,000/mile for annual mowing and trash pick up, and minor repairs like replacing a fence rail; they budget asphalt and drainage repairs separately on case by case basis. Some key factors affecting these wide ranges include:
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Quality of materials used, and frequency of sealing and reconstruction of the path Amount of leaf drop affecting the trail that requires concentrated sweeping Amount of flooding of the trail that has to be cleaned up Amount of snow removal/grooming needed Whether or not mowing, irrigation, and other care of adjacent open space is calculated in the cost
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Presence of waste receptacles
The largest factor affecting the annual main - tenance figures is whether or not the eventual trail reconstruction is accounted for in annual maintenance budgets, as opposed to being considered as separate capital item.
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