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Issaquah weighs cost versus aesthetic standards as pavement program aims to preserve streets
Summary
The city's streets manager outlined the Pavement Management Program: goal to maintain average PCI 73'80, treat roughly 8.1 lane miles annually, and use a mix of preventative (crack seal, surface/slurry) and reactive (overlays) treatments; council pressed for lifecycle cost modeling and equity considerations.
Bennett Aschbaugh, streets manager, presented the Pavement Management Program to Issaquah City Council on Feb. 9 and framed a central choice for council: continue prioritizing cost-effective preventative treatments or adopt a higher, more expensive aesthetic standard that relies on overlays.
Aschbaugh explained the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) framework, saying the city's level-of-service goal is to maintain a PCI between 73 and 80 and to treat about 8.1 lane miles annually. He…
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