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Committee advances high-friction surface treatment project to finalize design and seek bids
Summary
Staff asked the committee to authorize completing 85% design and to proceed to bidding for high-friction surface treatments at six city locations; the committee voted to forward the item to the council consent agenda.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted to forward a staff request to complete design and authorize a bid process for a high-friction surface treatment project intended to reduce run-off-road crashes at six locations across the city.
Shoma Chatterpathai of the Public Works traffic division presented the proposal and said high-friction surfacing is a resin-and-bauxite overlay applied to curved approaches and intersections to increase pavement traction and reduce weather-related crashes. “High friction surface is the binder of the resins and the bauxite, which is a polished…
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