Double Springs getting new sidewalk

DOUBLE SPRINGS - Revitalization - from better pedestrian safety to a future farmers market in downtown Double Springs - has received a major financial boost, thanks to a combination of $276,000 in grants announced recently.
The lack of parking downtown will soon be corrected, thanks to a $327,000 project adding a new sidewalk and lighting.
On September 9, Double Springs Mayor Kim Miller received a letter from Governor Kay Ivey announcing the town had received a $262,020 grant through the Federal Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program for fiscal year 2027 for that project. 
The Northwest Alabama Council of Local Governments provided assistance with the $262,020 grant, Miller stated.
The grant is funding the project at 80 percent, with the town providing the 20 percent match of $65,000, Miller said.

The town also recently received $14,000 from the Resource Conservation and Development Council to be applied toward the cost of providing a concrete slab over the current dirt floor of the buildings on Highway 195 which will eventually be used as a farmers market, town officials said.
The $262,020 grant announced by Ivey will provide a new sidewalk traveling from the Winston County Judicial Building next door to the Winston County Courthouse on Highway 195, traveling beside the highway until it reaches Adams Road just past Howard Dentistry, the mayor described.
“It allows people to safely walk up and down the side of the road,” Miller pointed out.
The project also calls for street lamps to be placed along the sidewalk, which will be designed to match the street lamps already in place in town, Miller explained.
On the side of the highway where the new sidewalk will be, about 8-10 parallel parking spaces will be added, also included in the grant funding, the mayor continued.
“That part of town is in dire need of parking,” Miller emphasized. “Parking in downtown Double Springs is very limited.
“We’re not going to have the 45-degree parking like they have on the opposite side of the road because of the danger of that,” Miller further explained.