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Stephanie Wiechmann
Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour’s office says the City Street department will tackle 63 projects this year. The mayor says it is an increase in paving, partly due to pandemic related challenges. Last August, Ridenour said while the city had money for paving, contractors were behind.

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Dan Ridenour
We had the money budgeted and we have the projects planned and ready to go. But some of the schedules of the contractors, because everything was shut down in 2020, so they got behind in their work and therefore are still finishing up 20 work before they'll start the 21.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
This year, the first major projects include stretches of New York Avenue, Greenwood Avenue, Elgin Street and Mulberry Street. Muncie Sanitary District drainage work will also require repaving streets like Riverside and Hoyt Avenues. Of the 63 total projects, the city says 24 are still being reviewed by the state of Indiana for the last part of the year. Muncie City spokesman Tony Sandleben says the schedule reflects a six year paving plan the Ridenour Administration created from an independent study of Muncie road conditions done in 2017. In 2020 Ridenour said the city would start with the study's worst graded streets and work up. But highly traveled streets like Tillotson Avenue and McGalliard Road won't be getting a makeover this year. The city previously announced parts of those streets will be repaired as part of a Federal Highway Administration funds matching program.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Officials say that work is not scheduled to begin until fiscal year 2026. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.