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Collin County adopts new pavement-selection criteria to prioritize long-life road upgrades
Summary
After a technical presentation and lengthy discussion of costs and funding, Collin County Commissioners unanimously adopted new pavement-selection criteria to guide whether county roads get upgraded from chip seal to hot-mix construction, with staff to prepare the implementing court order.
Collin County Commissioners Court on Thursday adopted a new countywide pavement-selection criteria intended to guide upgrades of county roads from chip seal to longer-lasting hot-mix construction.
The court approved the criteria 5–0 after a presentation from Public Works representative Mr. Kleinhechsel, who said the county’s earlier chip-seal program dating to 2005 no longer meets the heavier traffic and commercial loads on many roads. “We’re looking at a minimum 20 year life cycle on these roads,” Mr. Kleinhechsel told the court, arguing the new approach will lengthen…
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