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County highway department reports steady pavement rating, safety gains and 2026 capital requests
Summary
Marathon County highway staff reported a maintained PACER pavement rating above 7, a 10.67% reduction in crashes from 2022–2024 after safety countermeasures, and listed capital improvement requests for 2026 including bridge projects, culvert replacements and a new asphalt paver.
County highway staff told the Infrastructure Committee that the county's pavement condition has held above the strategic-plan target and that several safety and capital projects are planned for 2026.
Highway staff reported the county’s overall pavement evaluation metric (PACER) has remained above a score of 7 in recent years. "In 2019 our PACER rating was 7.08... in 2023 we were at 7.05 and last year in 2024 we're at 7.27," staff said. Staff attributed part of the 2024 improvement to projects…
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