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Engineer details RSR ratings, utility delays and $1 million allotment for Lowell resurfacing
Summary
City engineer Dave Piari presented a five-year pavement list and said RSR ratings guide resurfacing; projects are often postponed for National Grid or CSO work. Piari said about $1,000,000 is allocated for road reconstruction this year and French Street has a larger appropriation.
The Lowell City Neighborhood Subcommittee heard from city engineer Dave Piari, who described how the city prioritizes paving and why some streets wait years for resurfacing.
Piari said the city uses an RSR rating (from an outside contractor) as the primary qualifier for resurfacing and maintains a five-year list of pavement-restoration, sidewalk and full-reconstruction projects. He said projects are often postponed…
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