Saskatoon sidewalk repairs a point of pride for mayor

Spring isn’t just for road construction in Saskatoon. City crews also are tackling cracked and broken sidewalks too.

Mayor Charlie Clark told 650 CKOM on Tuesday that the city is taking steps to make repairs less noticeable once they’re complete.

“We have completely stopped the process of doing asphalt overlays,” he said. “Now when we go in and fix a sidewalk, we replace it with concrete so you don’t have a kind of two-tiered system.”

Clark said the work is ongoing maintenance.

“(It’s) building and retrofitting and fixing up the city so people feel like they’re living in quality neighbourhoods with quality infrastructure,” Clark explained.

Clark told CKOM on Tuesday that the city has gone from spending $220,000 on sidewalk repair in 2012 to around $6 million now.