Business View Civil & Municipal l November 2022

76 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 “Unfortunately, street projects are never ending, but Farmersville has gone many, many years without improvements to some of these areas, especially some of the older areas of town,” Gomez remarks. “We’re going to be able to actually start addressing these over the next several years.” The road leading into Farmersville from Highway 198 was formerly a two-lane road with dirt shoulders, but with help from the Tulare County Association of Governments, they have been able to expand it to a four-lane road complete with sidewalks, curbs, gutters and ADA ramps on corners at intersections. The area features landscaped medians dividing the street and will soon include streetlights to make it safer for pedestrians. “This was an area that definitely wasn’t safe for people to walk on and we probably wouldn’t have encouraged people to walk in that area, but it’s definitely a great asset now,” Gomez says. “And by making those improvements it should