CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Over on Wexford Drive -- between McArdle Road and Janssen Drive -- is where the city just completed a Rapid Repaving Project on Monday.
The pavement was the only thing that could be fixed under that program, but residents tell 3NEWS the streets aren't the only paths needing reconstruction.
Elena Hernandez lives on Wexford and said it was impossible to try and get her late husband down the sidewalks in his wheelchair.
Similar stories to hers are repeated around town.
”I couldn’t take him in the wheelchair, and he couldn’t use his scooter," she said. "We had to go through the street because the sidewalks are all broken, you know, and handicap accessible -- it was not accessible.”
The city of Corpus Christi is trying to come up with a plan to address footpaths such as these that are practically impassable along some streets, as well as the lack of sidewalks around town.
However, city officials tell 3NEWS the cost for that work is high, saying it would cost around $500,000 on both sides of a block.
”Now, we’ve got to just look at ways that we can try to improve the sidewalks and hit them specifically,” said District 3 council member Roland Barrera.
Some city streets, like those just a block from the Del Mar's main campus don’t even have a sidewalk.
”There are parts of the community that don’t have sidewalks at all, as well, and we need to address that also,” said at-large council member Jim Klein.
District 2 council member Sylvia Campos is wanting to fix sidewalks that are in horrible shape like the ones on Wexford.
In her district, she said she is doing what she calls a 'pilot program' to do the sidewalks along Indiana Avenue and on Green Grove Drive.
”Just those two streets, they’re half a million each and that’s it," Campos said. "One million for both of them.”
City manager Peter Zanoni said a sidewalk strategy plan should be up for council vote sometime during the summer.
”We need some strategy, some type of metrics, some type of systematic way of going about what sidewalk gaps or what sidewalk replacements do we do first, second, and third,” he said.
Hernandez said it would be great if her street's sidewalks were on that list, because there are other disabled neighbors -- like her husband -- who would love to be able to get around their own neighborhood.