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City to ask ARDOT to reclassify Honeycutt Street to local road to pursue 90/10 bridge funding
Summary
Staff recommended a resolution asking the Arkansas Department of Transportation to reclassify Honeycutt Street from an urban collector to a local road based on a traffic count under 350 vehicles per day; the change would make the city eligible for ARDOT’s local bridge program with a 90/10 cost-share for bridge improvements.
Assistant City Engineer Michael Hill recommended the board adopt a resolution asking the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) to reclassify Honeycutt Street in Hot Springs from an urban collector to a local road after a recent traffic count showed fewer than 350 vehicles in a 24-hour period.
Hill told the board that ARDOT currently identifies Honeycutt as an urban collector, but the city’s street classification table and the new traffic count place it within the federal standard range for a rural local road (federal standard cited as 80 to 700 vehicles per day). Reclassifying the street is strategically important because it would make the city eligible for ARDOT's local bridge program, which the assistant engineer said provides a more favorable 90/10 cost-share split for bridge improvements than typical collector-road funding.
Why it matters: the 90/10 cost share can substantially reduce the city’s share of capital costs for bridge repair or replacement. Hill said reclassifying the roadway aligns local planning documents with federal functional standards and helps the city remain competitive for future transportation grants.
Next steps: staff recommended the board adopt the resolution requesting ARDOT review and consider reclassification. The item was presented at the agenda meeting for formal action at the business meeting.
