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Concrete Industry Asks Senate to Require Neutral Review of ODOT Pavement‑Selection Process
Summary
Ohio Concrete asked the Senate Transportation Committee to preserve House Bill 54 language that would require the Ohio Department of Transportation to commission a neutral third‑party review of its pavement‑selection process and to form an advisory council to approve the study scope.
Tom Rositz, president and executive director of Ohio Concrete, urged the committee to preserve House Bill 54 language requiring a neutral third‑party analysis of the Ohio Department of Transportation's pavement‑selection process and creation of an advisory council to set the scope and select the reviewer.
"The language would simply require ODOT to contract with the neutral third party to analyze the agency's pavement selection process, including but not limited to life cycle cost analysis, user delay, constructability, and environmental factors," Rositz told the committee.
Why it matters: Rositz said Ohio's pavement market has become overwhelmingly asphalt‑dominant and that renewed impartial analysis would restore competition, lower material costs and allow agencies to get more roadway work for a…
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