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Pavement study rates Wheat Ridge roads at PCI 66; staff recommends $3 million annually to maintain condition
Summary
A city-commissioned pavement assessment using a vehicle-based scan returned a citywide pavement condition index (PCI) of about 66. Staff recommended a preventative-maintenance strategy and roughly $3 million per year to hold average PCI near 65; fully repairing streets rated 55 or lower was estimated at about $18.8 million.
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — Wheat Ridge public works staff on Jan. 6 presented a citywide pavement condition assessment that returned an overall Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of 66 and recommended a preventative-maintenance program estimated at about $3 million per year to maintain the citywide PCI near 65.
Maria, the city’s Public Works director, told council the city engaged a pavement-scanning vendor (vehicle-based data collection that measures distresses such as cracks and alligator cracking) to rate roughly 130 miles of streets on a 0–100 scale. Staff reported the city’s network includes about 112 miles of local/residential streets, roughly seven miles of collectors and the remainder in arterials.
The scan’s results showed most streets in fair condition, with a…
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