OLDS — A project to install wayfinding signs in Olds is going well, according to engineering technologist Ben McPhee.
“Over half of the foundations are complete, and the signs are in the manufacturing process. This project will be completed this fall,” McPhee wrote in an email.
This project, Phase 1 of a long-term plan, calls for installation of up to of 11 signs throughout Olds so visitors can easily find the destination they’re looking for.
This year’s phase is slated to cost $241,665, according to a town document.
It’s being financed with money provided by the province through its Municipal Sustainability Initiative (MSI) fund.
It’s all part of a wayfinding master plan approved by council in February, 2018.
In late April, this year’s phase of the wayfinding sign installation project was one of several capital projects put on hold as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic but then were later reinstated.
“You’ve probably noticed through around town different pieces of rebar sticking up or forms that have been sticking (up) around the place,” operations director Scott Chant told council during a policies and priorities meeting.
“You’ll see everything go from a concrete stage to a finished sign in fairly short order,” he said, adding installation of the signs themselves will go quickly because they’ll all be brought into town on a flatbed trailer.
